elanya

Toronto rocked by bseveral exposions at propane facility

A few minor injuries, no known fatalities - but it is still burning, they're trying to prevent further HUUGE INSANE EXPLOSIONS.

Here's the *big* explosion 9there were also some other smaller ones, I guess) - however the comments make me wat to beat people with a big stick.

There is some mighty furious weather going on outside the window. The rain is bucketing down, cooling (!!) the city, finally (!!). There is thunder, and presumably an accompanying light show - I can only see the occasional flash from here. This is good and bad. Good for the cooling. I have barely slept the last two nights because of the heat. We were having record temperatures, in the 40's once humidity was taken into account (110+, for my American amigos), coupled with the usual city smog. No one I know here has air conditioning. On this account, the rain is very welcome.

On anther account, though, this is my last night in the city. I just bought a new suitcase. I am at hazel's right now, but my things are all at rob's.... including the things that need to go into this new suitcase. Rob lives about a 10-15 min walk away. I have packed all the other shoes I have, as my sandals are the best traveling shoes I've got. *sigh* There is also thundershowers forecast for tomorrow morning.

Ahh well, you win some, you loose some. I'll be happy to get some sleep, I think :o

This is kind of a to do list, and kind of not. I am relieved to see that my I-20 is now in Toronto. It arrived in downtown Toronto about an hour ago. I arrived at hazel's place more recently. This means that there is almost no reason that I shouldn't have it by tomorrow. Hooray! I spent last night packing. I am hoping that my suitcase will survive the trip without exploding. if I have the time, I may go out today and pick up a new one. I also have to go to the bank today and buy a bigass bankdraft, and hope that it will be enough, at least for now. *sigh*

I have not been sleeping well. It has been stupidly hot here. Really stupidly hot, and I can't sleep because of the heat, and also because I can't sleep with fans blowing on me, so I'm pretty much fucked n hat department. I'd like to sleep now, but I need to wait until my I-20 is delivered, so I can't. Instead I am trying to remember what else I need to do here before I leave, besides packing away the rest of the stuff in the laundry, and my sneakers, which are by Rob's bed. I can't believe I'm leaving tomorrow. :(

Also boo, boo! Booooo! The Book of Dark Wisdom is no not accepting submissions until October :( I dunno if I just missed that by a day or what, but damn :p Ahh well. I can wait. The story isn't going anywhere. P.S. read it, it is awesome ;)

Nothing inspires me to wrote about the antarctic like being in sweltering toronto heat. And now it is done, improved and edited to fit the word count, and I am all in all extemely satisfied with it. Visible to friended readers over at measured_words, and community members at august_writing. I am probably going to pull it off the net once I send it away, though, but that will be at least a few days.

Today I need to:
-e-mail Texas Anth people about needed info - that took longer than I'd have liked :p
-mail the money to reedy branch
-fax a photocopy of my visa stamp, the bank letter, and the finance form to Texas
-meet da and Jennifer at noon at Spadina station to go and see the LotR thingy
-there is a dance show tonight, for 10$/person - I'd like to go, and Shan will be there.

Maybe Dad and Jennifer would be interested, hmmmmm.... Yes, yes they would. And Rob wants to go to see Jen (who I haven never actually seen perform). So i guess hat i what *we* are doing - anyone else want to come?

And now I need to shower (carefully) so I can get out and do my faxing/mailing. Wheee!

food
clinic
fax thingy to ecu
resumes?
Superman!
Nadine?
Gym

Well, that leave a lot of things to do tomorrow. I coudln't convince Rob to go to the gym, so i'll just go tomorrow when he goes to work. I've wasted ghalf another week that I could have been trying to find employment. Bah. I admit I'm not trying very hard - I could get by this summer without a job and make out okay in Texas for a year. But I feel like money is just slipping through my fingers like water here, and I would feel better if I had some kind of actual *income*. Oh, the bills they add up -_-

so tomorrow:

make appointment
resumes/temp places
tattoo place (yes, and I'm complaining about spending too much... well tough!)
Gym
Nadine


I can still fax that thing to ECU tonight at least!

And Rob and I are going to play Arkham Horror, even though it is just us ;p And... what else? I don't know. I am going to stay at Hazel's tonight, I believe - it is cooler and quieter. rob has tomorow off though. Anyay, getting stuff together now, incliding old Ned here. Rar!

Ps: I was right, Imax 3D Superman *was* awesome!

Instead of doing anything else, last night after I wrote my last update I curled up for a nap.... And I slept until the booming of nearby fireworks woke me up around 10:30. I got changed out of my shiny new dress, and then went back to sleep and didn't wake up until 6am.

So now I have laundry in to wash and I am chatting., and have watched various Snakes On A Plane bits, and am thinking of going to see superman maybe on Tuesday somewhere. Maybe. Today i am going to stay in and read, or write, and play Exia later. And when Rob gets off work I will get him to go clean and feed the animals there. Yay willas and hamsters!

Sounds like a good day to be - I haven't had a good day in in quite a while.

I hope Hazel and Ian are having a great time in NB :D

The past couple of day have been awesome. Hanging around Ian, however, is making me want to use more British colloquialisms... It fact it has been really ace! Yesterday we played the crap out of Arkham Horror, a Mythos based board game. We prevented Hastur from manifesting, which was really for the best as he would have been impossible to defeat otherwise.

Today started off not so well, with having to accompany my sister for an emergency root canal. But it ended with going to the Wet Spots Live for the release of their new CD, Hello Kinky. It was awesome, and Rob got to go on stage and smack the hell out of Cass King's bottom, in fact, and have his smacked in return. He drank close to 3 L of beer this evening, though he would like me to say close to 4. Definitely two. A good time was had by all. The Wet spots are brilliant, as ever, but they are a ton of fun live. They are actually leaving in the morning for a world tour, and if they are coming to your area, you sure as hell ought to go and check them out!

...I sleep now.

So, I just rushed home for Exia, to find out that it's been canceled died-ish.because Bart's computer crashed and his hard drive died, ish, message sent out around six. Boo on that. Especially as I left Julie's and Steve's leaving do thing to come and play. Well that'll learn me, I guess. I am going to head back over there in a bit, but I think I'll take this moment to let the world know that i still live, and also have a bit of a breather of alone time, of which I've had basically none for going on two or three weeks now, possibly more -_- Considering how much time I used to spend alone, this is a big change for me, and I think it is starting to make me a little twitchy. I was hoping that sitting here playing exia in an empty house would help me unwind a bit, but I'll get to it later.

Apart from just being generally social, it has been a busy time for me lately. Yesterday, for example, I hung out with people almost all day, including going out to the 80's night at Funhaus until almost 3AM, and then getting up to go to Kensington market around 12-1 until after 2, and then over to J&S's. And now back here. I'm actually pretty tired. I have a ton of pictures of people and places to post, as well. I'd like to also do some writing, as I haven't had a chance to so much as open a book or a file since I left the Shi.

In other news, however, I did finally get my thesis converted to PDF, woohoo!

Anyway, more later, I'm back off to J&S's for more exciting people and socialization. Unless I pass out here on the comfy comfy bed....

Today I ran a few little errands, after sleeping in for a bit (yay sleep!).

I went to the bank, and bought some milk so that I could make cornbread. It is apprently customer appreciation for the TD bank, so there were snacks and everyone was especially friendly. It turns out, however, that my investments actually come due on the 8th, not the 6th, pushing back my schedule by a little bit :/ Ahh well, I will survive.

I need to figure out what I am doing now. I thik I may take a little nap and head over to house of J&S - Game tonight isn't until a little later, though I plan to play from Rob's.

So J&S if you see this, I'll be around later :)