Tee OH
Trip Start
Jul 01, 2004
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24
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Trip End
Ongoing
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
Monday, March 21, 2005
bunny
. It's a little basement with my own bathroom sharing the mainfloor with a woman, her 11 year old daughter, big black (quiet) poodle named Lola and funny feline Lucy (who's grey. What's with me and grey/black cats this year?) Kathy and G are totally incredible... Kathy is a teacher/artist who knows all the floundering filmmakers in the city and was in bands in the 80's etc. G is really confident energetic smart ass who I thought was a brat the first time I met her but who's just really confident and intelligent. Lola worries me a little because she is a sickly dog. They've spent THOUSANDS on her leg which got fucked up for some reason and now they think she might have a tumour. She lays around a little too much and drinks WAY too much water... She's a big sweetheart. Lucy I think is in love me with because she's alternately crying and rampaging around and laying neary by STARING at me. I've got my bed in the "walk in closet" type area so I've got my own little living room. Which actually is a little silly because I don't have anything to put in it! I took just the bare minimum when I rushed back to windsor last weekend to pick up stuff. My room is womb. My bed totally snug against walls that I've put up blankets and so forth. The only furniture I brought was my blow up chair. The other things were already here, which was pretty cool. The first thing Ben unfortunately said was "We've got to get you out of here". I mean fair enough, it's a basement with a very small window at that, and not everyone can take the womb effect - but I like the damn thing
found replacement
. Yeah I've realized I can't really live in a basement but my room is bigger than the one on Clinton #1... and it's like of like a bachelors. So I'm just right around the corner from Ben, very close to Kensington Market/China town, and a short bike ride from work. So I'm happy...for now... So work is at the 401 Richmond building and if you aren't from T.O., or if you have no interest in Toronto culture you won't know this building. But everyone else does. I've always wanted to work there! It houses so many indie film fests and magazines and co-ops it's unreal. The building is all wood and old brick with HUGE MASSIVE windows.... Man if I could only LIVE there! Everyone at work seems really cool. There is already some tension going on but I'm pretty use to that stuff by now. It's everywhere - ESPECIALLY nonprofits! My work will be challanging because at True/False I had to manage 50 films and at Inside Out it's 275!! But at least the frickin' tech is being handeled by someone else! ;P Right now I'm informing the artists about their acceptance. It's pretty enjoyable...
So it's a good thing I held out for a place with a working oven because I've baked gingerbread cookies, gingerbread cake and bagels since I've been here a week! I haven't really done any hanging out as I've been here without phone/internet. Saw Ben a couple times cuz I was in his basement and Carla and I went out to an expensive home movie screening (part of the Hart House Film Fest.) Jonathan Pollard screened some amazing stuff as usual including a SOUND super 8 of an African Canadian wedding from the '70's. The photographer was the father and he was making comments about his beautiful daugher as he was filmming. I just about cried! It also made me think about the racist nature of film. It's always calibrated to shoot WHITE faces. The family were all too dark, through no fault of the filmmaker. Especially with those consumer cameras there was no way to choose what you wanted as a basis for your exposure.
Ok... So I've got a temporary job, a temporary place to live... now all I need is a temporary boyfriend (ha ha ha. that was like not funny)
