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.

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 ;)

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!

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

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....

to contact - just for my reference:

http://www.archaeologicalservices.on.ca/
http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3dsmith/CRMfirms.htm
http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Archaeology/Contractors_and_Consultants/North_America/Canada/

Well, maybe longer. I am at House of Rob while he finishes the last item on his to-do list, which is finishing up his expense report. I am also chatting online with Rogan and Hazel, yay for google chat, easily accessed via gmail (this is a hint, Robbinses ;)!

I have been seeing a lot of people herer, and doing some wandering arounsd in the meting humidity. I'm not sure how best to compare the temperatures to Greenville - it is more humid here, and we have the humidex to report that, making it something stupid like 41C (105F), which is a lot hotter than Greenville, apparently, but I don't think they *have* humidex in the states, and I don't know if it is already calculated into the temperature or not. Whatever. It is hot everywhere, but Greenville has less smog.

Anyway, it has been *awesome* being here. It eally does feel like I belong with these people and such, at least when we are hanging out. Sleeping/living arrangements and such are a little more tricksy, because I am invading in other people's spaces, and I just have so much bloody *stuff*.

Tonight we are going to the gym for some kind of weight class thingy, and after that, who knows!? Probably hanging out at house of Julie and Steve some more. We watched the Lion I Winter, which I though I'd seen, but apparently hadn't. I love Katherine Hepburn... Also Timothy Dalton, who pretty much looks exactly how I picture Lathander for the few of you who know who I mean. Rar! It's been a Lath reference kind of week, as there was also some stuff in X3 that made me think of him (and Rob too, so it isn't just me ^-^).

Today, I bought sunglasses. I am hoping that I can actually keep them from getting scratched or broken, but they were only 15$, so I won't cry too hard if they do. They were 2/30$, and rob and I both picked up a pair. *hop*

I don't thik I have anything else specific to report. Scallywag is settinging int quite qell - I had bought him a wheel, but it was broken before I even took it out of the bag, so now I have to take it back, if I can find the store again. It is somewhere near Kensington Market. Well if I do go back I'll be able to get pastries too, which will be good. I didn't have any money when we were there before, but rob lent me some cash today, and I have had other offers too, since I can definietly pay folks back. I do have to get to a branch of TD though, but that won't be hard - they are all over the place here.

That is probably enough rambling from me, in anycase. My only great sadness here is that I don't have much time to myself, and probably won't., to work on things like my various writign projects. On the otherhand, when I go to NB I may have a lot *more* time, so we shall see how it allk goes.

*hugles* to all my peeps, near and far :)

(Ps, tsiankiio, did you make Dina get an LJ yet? ;D)