family + harry potter = one happy nick
Allo Allo
Things have been not really very crazy as off late. I am liking the location of my apartment. The only thing affecting it is the strip club that is beside on my left, and the bbq that is beside me on my right. The bbq stinks up my balcony pretty much all day. The balcony is awesome in the evening though, that is when the bbq is closed.
However, the evening is when the strip bar opens. I don't have a problem with strip bars. I do have a problem with the creepy door man who stands outside on the street allnight. Strip bars gotta go somewhere though I guess, and someone has to live beside them, so it might as well be me.
It impacts my enjoyment of the bbq stench free balcony as when I read out there in the evening I get the opportunity to enjoy the baby doll soundtrack. Feel like making love is a favourite. I also hear the DJ talking pretty clearly.
I don't often see anyone going into the strip bar or coming out of it. Simon says that once a year the place opens for about a month. Apparently you can't transfer liquor licensces for strip bars in Toronto to different locations. They also cost $50,000. So I guess the holder of this particular liquor licensce doesn't want to give up the dream. Simon says the place always closes down after it opens up for a while.
So my father came to visit me last week. He really liked the apartment. I think what that means is he liked that he could smoke on the balcony, drink wine on the balcony, and smoke in the living room.
His visit was really short. He got in at midnight on wed. and left at 4pm on Sat. I love seeing my dad. It only happens twice a year though. This was the toughest time I have had with that in a while cause it was so short. What can you do?
We decided it was a good idea to go out for fancy lunches and dinners and to drink wine. Worked for me. We had some really great meals. Summerlicious was on so really expensive restaurants were pretty reasonable. Ergo, we went to Canoe, which is on the 54th floor of the TD tower. The food was great, the view was gross, you usually get to see the lake and the island, or downtown, but tons and tons of smog was obscuring everything.
After that we went to the bata shoe museum. Then we walked around yorkville cause that is my dad's favourite neighbourhood in Toronto. We went up to the hyatt roof top patio. If you have people visiting you, and they don't mind paying $6 for one beer, a good place to go is the hyatt roof top patio at bloor and avenue. The view is amazing. You also get a tray of olives, almonds, and some sort of dried fruit, so that takes the sting out of a $9 Grolsch a little bit.
That evening we went to julies, a cuban place on dovercourt, it was allright. The corn fritters were good, but super greasy. The mojitos were good, but $8. The mains were so so. The key lime pie was fantastic.
That evening we went to sweaty betty's with some friends of mine and that was fun. The day after we did the same thing, brunch at mitsys, dinner at the jamie kennedy wine bar, which was awesome. Then my dad went to sleep, and I went to pick up the new harry potter.
I got home from picking up potter at around 1. I started reading at around 1:30 and stayed up till 4 as I couldn't put it down. I got up in the morning, me and my dad took the kipling subway to leslies and had the most ridiculous brunch ever. It was so amazing.
My dads brother and his wife came into see my dad. They had brunch with us. After brunch they drove my dad to the airport. I was sad to see him go but it was great seeing him.
I then proceeded to read the rest of the potter book in about three and a half hours. I don't like spoiling it for people so I will just say I thought the book was great and I was really happy with it. It brought in so much from the previous books, it was really exciting, really sad at times, I loved it.
I am rereading for a couple reasons. As sad as it is I take a lot of joy out of the harry potter books. So I am rereading it so that I can drag that out for a while. I also want to make sure I didn't miss anything. I read it really fast the first time so I am sure I missed a lot. There is some pretty complex stuff at the end that I think I need to read over to grasp fully.
This of course does not bode well for my thesis. As I am struggling to grasp a quickly read childrens book. Perhaps I should see if ol J.K. will be on my committee.
The job search isn't going so hot. I had an interview last week but I don't think anything will come of it. I applied for a job I would really like last week but I am not holding my breath. I have no confidence in getting a job in toronto as there are so many qualified people here. I want to move home, but there isn't a whole lot of work there. I guess I will just do part time research stuff till I get a job.
Things have been not really very crazy as off late. I am liking the location of my apartment. The only thing affecting it is the strip club that is beside on my left, and the bbq that is beside me on my right. The bbq stinks up my balcony pretty much all day. The balcony is awesome in the evening though, that is when the bbq is closed.
However, the evening is when the strip bar opens. I don't have a problem with strip bars. I do have a problem with the creepy door man who stands outside on the street allnight. Strip bars gotta go somewhere though I guess, and someone has to live beside them, so it might as well be me.
It impacts my enjoyment of the bbq stench free balcony as when I read out there in the evening I get the opportunity to enjoy the baby doll soundtrack. Feel like making love is a favourite. I also hear the DJ talking pretty clearly.
I don't often see anyone going into the strip bar or coming out of it. Simon says that once a year the place opens for about a month. Apparently you can't transfer liquor licensces for strip bars in Toronto to different locations. They also cost $50,000. So I guess the holder of this particular liquor licensce doesn't want to give up the dream. Simon says the place always closes down after it opens up for a while.
So my father came to visit me last week. He really liked the apartment. I think what that means is he liked that he could smoke on the balcony, drink wine on the balcony, and smoke in the living room.
His visit was really short. He got in at midnight on wed. and left at 4pm on Sat. I love seeing my dad. It only happens twice a year though. This was the toughest time I have had with that in a while cause it was so short. What can you do?
We decided it was a good idea to go out for fancy lunches and dinners and to drink wine. Worked for me. We had some really great meals. Summerlicious was on so really expensive restaurants were pretty reasonable. Ergo, we went to Canoe, which is on the 54th floor of the TD tower. The food was great, the view was gross, you usually get to see the lake and the island, or downtown, but tons and tons of smog was obscuring everything.
After that we went to the bata shoe museum. Then we walked around yorkville cause that is my dad's favourite neighbourhood in Toronto. We went up to the hyatt roof top patio. If you have people visiting you, and they don't mind paying $6 for one beer, a good place to go is the hyatt roof top patio at bloor and avenue. The view is amazing. You also get a tray of olives, almonds, and some sort of dried fruit, so that takes the sting out of a $9 Grolsch a little bit.
That evening we went to julies, a cuban place on dovercourt, it was allright. The corn fritters were good, but super greasy. The mojitos were good, but $8. The mains were so so. The key lime pie was fantastic.
That evening we went to sweaty betty's with some friends of mine and that was fun. The day after we did the same thing, brunch at mitsys, dinner at the jamie kennedy wine bar, which was awesome. Then my dad went to sleep, and I went to pick up the new harry potter.
I got home from picking up potter at around 1. I started reading at around 1:30 and stayed up till 4 as I couldn't put it down. I got up in the morning, me and my dad took the kipling subway to leslies and had the most ridiculous brunch ever. It was so amazing.
My dads brother and his wife came into see my dad. They had brunch with us. After brunch they drove my dad to the airport. I was sad to see him go but it was great seeing him.
I then proceeded to read the rest of the potter book in about three and a half hours. I don't like spoiling it for people so I will just say I thought the book was great and I was really happy with it. It brought in so much from the previous books, it was really exciting, really sad at times, I loved it.
I am rereading for a couple reasons. As sad as it is I take a lot of joy out of the harry potter books. So I am rereading it so that I can drag that out for a while. I also want to make sure I didn't miss anything. I read it really fast the first time so I am sure I missed a lot. There is some pretty complex stuff at the end that I think I need to read over to grasp fully.
This of course does not bode well for my thesis. As I am struggling to grasp a quickly read childrens book. Perhaps I should see if ol J.K. will be on my committee.
The job search isn't going so hot. I had an interview last week but I don't think anything will come of it. I applied for a job I would really like last week but I am not holding my breath. I have no confidence in getting a job in toronto as there are so many qualified people here. I want to move home, but there isn't a whole lot of work there. I guess I will just do part time research stuff till I get a job.