Tourist in TO

what's your world view?

so lady-like!

playing godzilla

k and i on the scary glass floor of the CN Tower

Stephen Hawking is an Asshole

when i answer the phone to the words "sak, what are your plans for the day?" i know immediately that it doesn't really matter what plans i had already made for myself because i am probably going to want to get involved. this is because A) the words are being spoken by one of the leo sisters and B) their plans are likely to lead to unpredictable antics. yesterday was no exception.

faced with the prospect of an open and lazy sunday i thought that maybe i would check out the Warhol exhibit at the AGO. it was not to be, although i did head down to that part of town. s and k had been out the night before and discussion of the evening prior dominated most of brunch. it wasn't a tale full of adventure and mayhem so much as the story of disappointment and hurt feelings, but i think we did a fairly good job of getting to the root of the problem and creating a framework to deal with the aftermath. i love playing therapist! especially with k piping up with gems like "i'd just have to ask her 'what's your worldview?'"

after brunch we headed off for our pedicures. i would be really proud of how much of a lady i am these days (brunch, pedicure ...) if i hadn't gone out in short-pants and a dinosaur t-shirt. pictures will be posted later. we had some time to kill so we wandered around and squawked, as per usual. it was during this downtime that k proposed the final, most glorious, adventure of the day. CN Tower.

s was still feeling a bit blue and we figured that being a tourist in toronto would be just the thing to cheer her up. i mean, what's better than an elevator ride? a really long elevator ride. and, as k put it, "our antics are way funnier at high altitudes." so we trekked over, in the stifling heat, and got in line. the actual tower was fairly uneventful and after a near fight with a family that was hogging the best picture spot, being minorly terrified by the glass floor and a bad slushee later we headed back down.

the subway wasn't running between union and eglinton so i had to walk home from yonge and bloor. in 34 degree weather. i thought i was going to die. and i still had to get ready for my date! i introduced j to mariachi's and apart from one hideously inappropriate conversation (which actually wasn't that bad but i was being oddly lady-like and polite for some reason) it was good.

i had not planned on posting this until i got the pictures from k but i figured it has been SO long since i wrote i should really get on with things. in typical form i will leave you with my favourite quotes of the weekend (including friday night's korean karaoke party which was AWESOME but my memories were hindered by the copious amounts of soju consumed and all i am left with are a few, almost incoherent, notes):

"i cured two cases of cancer today, what did you do?"
"oh, it would be so difficult to be a lady with a penis"
"if taco bell were healthy i'd be gene simmons"
"i also remember that as a child ramps were a cause for celebration"
"hung like a horse" "which is an insult if you are a moose"