Tired.
Back from Gulf Islands for Easter with She Who Must Be Obeyed and The Alpha of The Universe, as well as my little brother who doesn't have a cutesy nickname yet. I was tired the whole damn time! FUCK. I got interesting photos on saturday, but otherwise MEH I say. I had to miss my dad's blues band performance and everything because I had to
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I haaate small towns. I hate making small talk with the people who ride in the elevator with me, so God help me if I have to do neighbourly things. I live in a city of three to five million people because I like to be left the fuck alone. And in a city where it's not too unusual to see one guy guiding another scantily-clad guy down the street with a collar and a leash, I'm far from the most alien thing here.
Toronto strikes a nice balance because people can be decent sometimes and I probably won't die. It's definitely got its bad neighbourhoods, but at least everyone's still racially mixed. Black, white, Asian, Indian all live in the same neighbourhoods. It's not like some towns I've been to in the States, where I've literally feared for my life. Taking the taxi through Baltimore was a riot.
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Vancouver in my experience is a mixed bag. My current gym can be snob heaven at certain times of day (morning type a 'driven' status-seekers, and afternoon yummy mummy crowd, both of which would like you to wear makeup, do your hair, not sweat please and spend at least $300 on your gym attire. Oh, and GTFO Their Machine. But I'm not bitter..XD)
West Point Grey is snobby. Park Royal (where all the English expats live) is Snotville. The BC ferries have a 'paid lounge' where 'all the fascists and SoCreds sit'.
Alos, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside can look, honest to god, like freaking Calcutta if you peer down certain alleyways. And yeah, I've seen the US Racial Crazy(tm) and words fail me again. My dad talks about taking my siblings to Florida and stopping to eat in a restaurant. Great food, he said, but halfway through they realized they were the only white people in the place. No problem (clearly everyone twigged that these were Crazy Canadians from outer space essentially.) But then later on that afternoon they got fucking *harrassed* by white guys who had 'saw their car in that ****** joint.' Yeah...
Fortunately my dad is large and angry-Irish and scary.
Anyway- agree about small towns. Provincial small town snobbery is worse than Park Royal. I'd rather deal with people who still believe in aristocracy and social Darwanism with the Pender Coffee Shop crowd again. Fun tip: if you're not wearing full makeup, you're a LESBIAN.
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