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june 12 2009

At Harbourfront tonight Cirque de Soleil was doing its dress rehearsal for tomorrow’s Luminato closing show.  My friend and I were were killing ourselves while planning the ‘Great Clown Caper of 09’:

So we’ll dress up in costumes and take to the street… and make unidentifiable noises as we move through the crowd with jazz hands, tapping heads… then we take their purses and bags with a big smile… and they’ll be all like, “don’t worry honey!  They’re gonna bring them back in a magical way.”.  

On the right up there is a palm tree here in Toronto; weird, huh.  I was at some gigilala club I can’t remember the name of, and they were everywhere.  

… this is the kinda stuff that can happen.june 11 2009

En route home traffic just stopped… so instead of sitting in it I took the next exit available. No idea where I am, but my trick is to find the CN Tower and navigate from there.  

Ladida I’m driving along and happen upon Plant World, middle row left, and this is excellent and in I go because on my to-do-tomorrow list is “buy herbs for a birthday gift”.  I always stop to smell the flowers (and soon we’ll go explore the Royal Botanical Gardens where there is a specific flower to find and smell).

The bottom photo is a rare sight… me owning alive-things, which is how this conversation came to be:

Me: Are these filled with bugs?  
Lady who works there: Really?
Me: Ya.  Like, if I leave them overnight in my apartment will I then have a bug problem?
Lady: [blank stare, turns into a smirk] 
Me: Is my imagination working overtime here?  
Lady: Yes, this is borderline completely over-the-top.
Us: [cackling]

june 11 2009

I’m at Labatt Park in London Ontario, continually operated since 1877.

Had to go to London then Kitchener today.  From along the way:

june 10 2009

Top Row
Those are directions to the same place… in red are Google Map’s, and beside it in pencil are from a human; humans win.  On the right is a round-about.  They are popular in the Kitchener/Waterloo region, and are much more efficient than the stoplights they’ve replaced.  

The St. Jacob’s road sign reminded me of something I once heard about Amish people… that they’re some of the world’s best designers of… high-end, large-scale weaponry.  

Second Row
An easy joke.

Last Row
That’s an old-fashioned radar-detector.  And on the right is a place I’d forgot about till I saw it.  That’s Brescia, Canada’s only just-women university.  When I had a little home on CBC last year there was a comment box on my page, and someone who worked here had written in a long letter and asked me to come speak there (that’s why I figured it was okay to do this).

Here’s the kicker: I wasn’t allowed to write back to any of the comments left for me on that page.  As I typed that sentence I was shaking my head in both confusion and disgrace… my apologies to those who never heard back from me.