All my Yesterday.
Jun. 5th, 2005 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupYesterday was both a very long and a short day for me. Some parts seemed very long because I had only had 2 hours sleep. Other bits seemed quite short as whenever I was busy the time flew by.
The night before I had spent quite a few hours tossing and turning to no effect before finally drifting off for a very fitful two hours. As it was, I woke up 3 times in those two hours.
So, when 7:30 rolled around, I was not exactly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but I managed to crawl out of bed by 8:00 and was ready to leave for a minor shopping expedition at Reno Depot. After that, we headed off for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mousme's weekly brunch.
Now, I don't know how often I'll be able to make it to the brunches, both because I have to get up at 8:00 am (at the latest) on a Saturday, and also because Eggspectations isn't the cheapest place to eat considering our current budget, but they are a lot of fun.taxlady and I arrived first, followed shortly by miseri and then mousme. luvenditti arrived a few minutes after that.
We ate and chatted about everything under the sun. As we were settling up the bills, another LJ'er arrived, but I didn't catch their LJ name, and their real name is now forgotten -- two hours sleep will do that to my memory. He seemed a nice enough fellow though, so he probably has an LJ name likezortgon_the_befouler.
By 12:00 most folks had left, and it was only me,miseri and zortgon left. We chatted for another half hour -- mostly about school and the horrors of exams -- and then we went our separate ways. I was pleased to discover that zortgon, who had only had coffee, had his bill waived. Whether that was because he seemed such a nice guy, or because the waiter was afraid of his evil minions, I don't know.
I then had about 2.5 hours to kill before the beer fest. First I went to a pharmacy, and bought me some shampoo. Then I headed downtown to the Chapters bookshop just up the street from Windsor station where the beer fest was being held.
On a whim, I checked to see if Chapters had any books about writing erotica. They had, but only one: Writing Erotica by Edo Van Belkom. I spent 30 minutes flipping through it, which was long enough to determine that it wasn't worth buying. Just about any book on being a professional writer would have done a better job of covering what this book did.
After that I still had 30 minutes to kill, so I grabbed a coffee at the coffeeshop and read the last of the novel I had brought with me (The title and author escape me at the moment, but I'll probably write a mini-review later.)
After that, it was off to the beer fest. Boy, was it crowded! I wandered around a bit, but soon realized I would not be able to findhub_ or thebabynancy in the crush. I phoned them to find out where they were, and their location turned out to be less than 8 feet from me! When I pushed through the crowd, I discovered that cutiecassa was also with them. Not too too long after that, blacksquiggles met us. From then on, its kinda a blur.
We wandered around inside and out, trying different beers and eating sausages on sticks. The group split up and rejoined several times and I lost track of who all I saw. Eventually I ended up sitting on a rock outside, resting my weary legs while other folks went off on beer runs for us. By then we had formed into an amalgam of 2 or three groups that each had a person or two in common. I remember that by then we had been joined byxipetotec, lucklesskanuck, and pphaneuf. At one point a spike-haired individual identified as _absinth_ dropped in to say Hi, as did emjayne and a friend later.
We pretty much sat and chatted, ate and drank until nearly 9:00 pm, at which point I decided to head home along withthebabynancy and hub_. Of course, they only had to go as far at St. Henri metro and they were home, whereas I caught the 211 at Lionel Groulx and was picked up in Pointe Claire by taxlady.
Soon I was home again, and went to bed not long after, although it took my body a while to realize that it really was allowed to sleep now.
The night before I had spent quite a few hours tossing and turning to no effect before finally drifting off for a very fitful two hours. As it was, I woke up 3 times in those two hours.
So, when 7:30 rolled around, I was not exactly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but I managed to crawl out of bed by 8:00 and was ready to leave for a minor shopping expedition at Reno Depot. After that, we headed off for
mousme's weekly brunch.Now, I don't know how often I'll be able to make it to the brunches, both because I have to get up at 8:00 am (at the latest) on a Saturday, and also because Eggspectations isn't the cheapest place to eat considering our current budget, but they are a lot of fun.
taxlady and I arrived first, followed shortly by miseri and then mousme. luvenditti arrived a few minutes after that.We ate and chatted about everything under the sun. As we were settling up the bills, another LJ'er arrived, but I didn't catch their LJ name, and their real name is now forgotten -- two hours sleep will do that to my memory. He seemed a nice enough fellow though, so he probably has an LJ name like
zortgon_the_befouler.By 12:00 most folks had left, and it was only me,
miseri and zortgon left. We chatted for another half hour -- mostly about school and the horrors of exams -- and then we went our separate ways. I was pleased to discover that zortgon, who had only had coffee, had his bill waived. Whether that was because he seemed such a nice guy, or because the waiter was afraid of his evil minions, I don't know.I then had about 2.5 hours to kill before the beer fest. First I went to a pharmacy, and bought me some shampoo. Then I headed downtown to the Chapters bookshop just up the street from Windsor station where the beer fest was being held.
On a whim, I checked to see if Chapters had any books about writing erotica. They had, but only one: Writing Erotica by Edo Van Belkom. I spent 30 minutes flipping through it, which was long enough to determine that it wasn't worth buying. Just about any book on being a professional writer would have done a better job of covering what this book did.
After that I still had 30 minutes to kill, so I grabbed a coffee at the coffeeshop and read the last of the novel I had brought with me (The title and author escape me at the moment, but I'll probably write a mini-review later.)
After that, it was off to the beer fest. Boy, was it crowded! I wandered around a bit, but soon realized I would not be able to find
hub_ or thebabynancy in the crush. I phoned them to find out where they were, and their location turned out to be less than 8 feet from me! When I pushed through the crowd, I discovered that cutiecassa was also with them. Not too too long after that, blacksquiggles met us. From then on, its kinda a blur.We wandered around inside and out, trying different beers and eating sausages on sticks. The group split up and rejoined several times and I lost track of who all I saw. Eventually I ended up sitting on a rock outside, resting my weary legs while other folks went off on beer runs for us. By then we had formed into an amalgam of 2 or three groups that each had a person or two in common. I remember that by then we had been joined by
xipetotec, lucklesskanuck, and pphaneuf. At one point a spike-haired individual identified as _absinth_ dropped in to say Hi, as did emjayne and a friend later.We pretty much sat and chatted, ate and drank until nearly 9:00 pm, at which point I decided to head home along with
thebabynancy and hub_. Of course, they only had to go as far at St. Henri metro and they were home, whereas I caught the 211 at Lionel Groulx and was picked up in Pointe Claire by taxlady.Soon I was home again, and went to bed not long after, although it took my body a while to realize that it really was allowed to sleep now.
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Date: 2005-06-05 09:19 pm (UTC)As far as I can tell... you chose not to attend... so whining about another missed adventure... when you've only yourself to blame... especially when you were down town to begin with!?
Quite frankly, the most flimsy of excuses. Right you cannot drink beer... or rather you opt to drink a beer on Tuesdays. Suddenly, you have nothing resembling free-will, or will power?!
Not everyone goes to the Beer Fest to drink beer. Fancy that.
:/
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Date: 2005-06-05 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-05 09:31 pm (UTC)It doesn't even matter. I've grown quite accustomed to these kinds of things from people... I'm not even surprised anymore.
Salut!
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Date: 2005-06-05 10:46 pm (UTC)