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#16
Hang in there, Kitten. We are always here for you.
#17
Quote from: purelife on Jun 11 14 03:18
Hi SD!  Gosh, I thought you were living in Van.  How come you're in Montreal?  Sleep deprivation sucks for sure.

I love extra crunchy peanut butter on toasted flax macks bread.  yum!

I've been gone since July 1, 2013! In grad school! People want me to move back here though. I have insomnia + missing a bed. It sucks.

Well I survived the wedding. I nearly showed visible tears when my friend walked up the aisle. I was a bridesman or 'bride's attendant.'


#18
Many thanks for your guidance and wisdom, Gopher and Kitten. I suppose I should clarify: Montreal has been great when I get sleep, haha. It's actually the first specific place I've lived - the pacific northwest is a region and not a city - where I feel connected. For me, in my case, it means caring about the city and the people. A lot of this is a reflection of why I'm here, but I can see myself living here if I learned French! True, a lot of my friends are moving to Toronto.

The existential thought is about the US. I rarely enter the country anymore and the place keeps getting stranger and stranger!

Plane delayed in Chicago. The battery on the plane died.
#19
Quote from: Gopher on Jun 09 14 09:33
But think of the experience! ;D

Of sleep deprivation? Haha...
The experience so far has been cleaning my very own first place. It needs a bed, though.

Existential thought of the day: I've been in the country for no more than four hours and thoughts of returning come to me, but I'm never willing to do it. I'm not ready yet, I guess.
#20
Humming CCR in my head while rolling down the highway.
#21
Hi purelife!

Sorry for not replying in a week or so. Moving, cleaning, research and dealing with 9 months of sleep deprivation has started to visibly take a toll. Thankfully, when I get back to Montreal on the 20th I will buy a bed. I haven't had a bed for almost three years...

Heading to Seattle tomorrow and then back up to Vancouver. I've been promised a bed for a few days, so I'll start feeling like a human again. 

The previous tenant of my place was a kook who never cleaned. I've been scrubbing the place down over and over again to get out the various smells and odors. I went through a severe bout of renter's regret this week. In time, though, I should be fine.
#22
I'm not sure on lunch. I'll see what Albany has to offer when I get off the bus.
#23
Quote from: kitten on May 30 14 08:27
Sounds like you are really enjoying life in Montreal.  Are there a lot of food trucks in Montreal in the business district the way there are here?

I have enjoyed my life here to an extent. My living situation hasn't been the greatest, but I'm moving to my own place tomorrow, so I'm rather excited about this. Hopefully the insomnia goes away.

Food trucks. Funny you should mention. They are around downtown but only during the summer. I haven't given them a try. Montreal had zero food trucks until three mayors ago this time last year. The anglophone mayor who was arrested for corruption around the time of Rob Ford's crack tape passed a by-law legalizing food trucks.

Nearly every borough seems to close its main commercial street in order to have a street fair during the summer months. St. Laurent and Mont-Royal in the Plateau, Masson in Rosemont, St Hubert around Jean Talon Metro, Eglise in Verdun come to mind; Ontario in the gay village is permanently closed during the summer months) and has a street fair every weekend from now until Labour Day.
#24
Brits are a littering bunch? Who knew!

That's really great, Lil Me. Best of luck!

#25
Falafel sandwich later followed by a pint at a local pub with a friend.




#26
Hi Lil Me! Long time no see. Congrats on finishing the university degree. Big achievement. The fractions are mere social constructions of social statistics. This is what I tell myself when I come across numbers.

The things I wanted to get done today did not happen. This weekend is a wash in general with the moving chaos, paying for things, and trying to contact Hydro Quebec, which is borderline impossible. Hydro Quebec automatically hangs up on you if the lines are busy. I guess they like to keep it short, sweet and to the point.

The best post-Habs loss comment I read on the internet last night was "GOLF!! HABS!! GOLF!!" (get it. haha)

It's baseball season now.




#27
Quote from: kitten on May 23 14 05:31
Congratulations, SD!  I liked Montreal in the summer.  I lived near Sherbrooke St? Avenue?, on Shuter St.  I remember a gorgeous place on Sherbrooke that served the best gravy I've ever eaten.  I worked at the Allen Memorial Institute, about a half-hour walk, and would climb part-way up and lie in the grass and read after work.

It's good to see you back on the board here.

Hmm. The street you used to live on off Sherbrooke Ave is now called Aylmer. You lived in the McGill Ghetto/Milton Park neighbourhood! Pierre Trudeau's art deco bachelor pad is down the street from the institute. Was the grass part of a field? There's a field in front of the institute now. It has castle looking towers and what not. My reading park for that area is the "parc off parc" north of the intersection of Parc and Pins. Otherwise I try and find a tree in Maisonneuve or Lafontaine. It's windier than the plains here.


Le Club du Hockey lost.


I went for a run last night around the Plateau. It was quite nice.


#28
On Wednesday I officially ended my almost three years of vegetarianism. I just couldn't do it anymore.

Falafel sandwiches for lunch. They were half off today.

#29
Kitten!!!

I'm moving to a new place on the 1st - my own place! Not only is it great that I'm moving, but I will eventually acquire a proper bed to sleep on for the first time in 2.5 years... Spring came and went in Montreal. We are in summer now- the terraces are full. However, summer left and spring came back today with the rain. The Habs won last night, so the city is at peace with itself.



#30
Quote from: Russ on May 26 13 09:07
Good for you SD
You will enjoy Montreal better than here probably.

Yeah... We are excited but also worried about all the stuff we have to do all over again.


Thanks Russ.
I hope so too. I have rather grown tired of the scene here.


I'm sure everything will be great. I hope things are going well for you three + 1.