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Submitted by mir on December 30, 2006 - 3:30pm

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I am only writing this because I am not in the mood to put up window plastic but I have no choice. It's too cold here not to.

I am so glad to be home... I love my dusty apartment with dodgy appliances, and I love my dog and I love the snobby market down the street where I go to buy cheap gourmet cheese, ( take that snobby cheese store in Parkdale - I hear your fancy words for rind and I reject them).

I even love that my cat just shed buckets of white hair all over the mahogany coloured bed cover I got for Christmas, although I am going to stop loving that in about 2 days.

I miss my family and friends already. Now that the refrain of when are you going to move back home has subsided slightly I gotta say, I am still happy to be here. If I could fold up the map of Canada like those old Mad magazine fold-in covers, to make Toronto and Montreal sit closer together I would in a heartbeat. As it is I guess I am stuck loving two places in equal measure for different reasons.

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Submitted by dexter (not verified) on December 30, 2006 - 9:27pm. #

there's a snobby cheese store in parkdale? pray tell. and in a totally unrelated tangent, the downstairs neighbours are in the midst of their weekly marathon hump. sweet dreams for me tonight.

Submitted by Shawn (not verified) on January 2, 2007 - 5:37pm. #

There are some who call Toronto and Montreal "Monronto" -- it's nice, I think. I think it came out of a response to American's who see indie bands from either city as being from the same place.

Submitted by mir on January 3, 2007 - 1:12am. #

Yeah and Toreal sounds like a ballet about bull-fighters doesn't it.

It was swell meeting you Shawn. We should totally have an acerbic drink together if you ever manage to visit the coffin.

Submitted by amanda (not verified) on January 4, 2007 - 9:22pm. #

I'm glad it is cold *somewhere* because it sure is not cold in New York City.

Submitted by mir on January 5, 2007 - 3:00pm. #

It stopped being cold after about 2 days, I think it was +7 yesterday. The plastic now is serving the purpose of keeping my plague cold germs in, and any clean germ-free air *out* of my apartment.

No, I am not bitter that I have had a cold for a week +. I am perfectly content to be sick in warm weather. In fact, I hope I have avian flu.

Submitted by Shawn (not verified) on January 8, 2007 - 1:09am. #

Yeah, I'll come back to the coffin one day. Haven't been since '05. Invite me to come give a talk!

But it was good meeting you too -- you reminded me of the character Mary-Louise Parker played on the West Wing. That's good.