Old friends...
Trip Start
Jul 01, 2004
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45
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Trip End
Ongoing
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Cafe Aquarios closed down but it turns out they have reopened by another name. This is good news. I didn't get to check them out because I'd bought so much at the Stone Store...
In Toronto I saw Jonathan and Ben and Carla and Francois and Firoza. I spent a couple days with Carla and the damn girl gave me her bed! She even put chocolate on my pillow! She's the sweetest, pinkest girl ever :D If only it would CROSS my mind to put a chocolate on someone's pillow who was visiting! I can only strive to be at her level of hostess. I got to go up to CBC in the area that she works. It's funny how laid back and nonchalant everyone there is... so many people I know would die to work there. Patrick works in her section and I find this really funny. I'm not sure why. I suppose it only makes sence that people from the same library school are going to work together. What's too bad tho is that Patrick is really starting to hate his job. He's been doing a lot of moving things around. I don't know if library school prepares you for this but film archiving school does! He's thinking about going to Phili. I secretly wish and pray this would happen because then I would know FIVE people in that town and it would even more of a reason to visit. Maybe I should try and do this when I'm in the east??
Me and Jonathan hung out and it was real nice. We ate food in his kitchen overflowing with diet teryhaki (spelling!?!?) sauce, talked, went to the plastisized body exposition at the science center, went to the NFB for some free movies and went to the Cameron where he was DJing and met Carla, F and F. I want to try and work things out. We will see where it goes. He's going to be on the road a lot starting in May and after I'm through with Inside Out I'll be going back to Portland. So our schedules and times in life aren't matching right now but I hope they will in the future. When I noticed I was looking for Jonathan in all the guys I met I realized I should probably just go for the real thing...
I spent about 2 hours with Ben, a very quick visit because he was working on his CFC application. I hope he gets in. We had a fun time shooting rubber chickens around the room and talking film production. The best news for me is that he has a room for rent in March, just about the time I need one. I'll move to Toronto early just so I can live with him. We've been talking about it so long.
Had drinks with Francois and Firoza at the Cameron and that was really fun. They are so talkative and lively. I wish I saw them more. I wish I saw everyone more really. I wish all my friends lived at least within a 30 min transit ride of eachother. I've come to realize that getting everyone together on an outing is impossible. I tried to do this in Rochester and failed miserably. Tried to do this in Portland and same results. People don't like mass hangouts. I like it a lot. It's funny because i hate parties. I hate sitting in a room full of people, but get those people out, moving, going to something and I'm having the time of my life... It's sad for me that all the people I love live in different towns and I seem to never be where they are. Do I keep moving around because I feel like I'm missing something with everyone all over the place? Do I need to get doses of everyone every so often to keep me going? I don't know... I do know that if I was independantly wealthy I would do MORE moving around and wouldn't feel so peculiar about it...
