ange & lauren’s big mtl adventure

25 days!! twenty five mother f’in days since we moved here. amazing. in a week and a half we will have our homecoming (aka Thanksgiving trip) and get caught up with the family and some friends left behind.

this week has started off more with a cough than a roar, thanks to a bug i managed to pick up last week and have since transmitted to ange (note to ange: sorry!) . in fact, i am coughing as we speak. its miserable. we are misery embodied, and there is no one to take pity on us. except perhaps half the street that can see into our apartment when the drapes are open.

the neat thing about this city is that everything is narrower. we all live in closer proximity. the wide boulevards of Toronto? nothing near. this is a city of front terraces and cobblestones. i won’t even start on what the implications are for the automobiled set, i will simply focus on how it can make all of our meals, conversations, movie-watchin and cookin time the whole neighbourhood’s business. while that is kinda creepy from a privacy point of view, it somehow makes me feel safer. I know it makes ange worry that potential thieves will be granted easy access to the smokin hot television, but thats why we lock the triple paned sliding door.

exhibit a: last week i was puttering around in the office when i heard a very loud, very close crash. my first thought? hope someone isn’t trying to steal my car! so i padded out onto the balcony, forgetting completely i was decked out in powder pink patterned pajama bottoms, to investigate further. so did half the neighbourhood. people filled all terraces, front porches and the sidewalks for a 2 block radius. turned out someone smashed the front door window of the apartment building next door. it was just so neat to see the congregation of people, looking out to see what happened, and ostensibly lookin’ out for the neighbourhood.

petty criminals, beware!

in other news, ange has been working hard at school. she turned in her first paper sunday evening. i have NOT been working hard at school; instead i am filling up my days with work, some travel, shopping for produce and watching way too many documentaries, for better or for worse. for example, last night – i tossed and turned and couldn’t sleep, so i finally got up and went to doze in front of the boob tube for awhile. instead of dozing i got sucked in by this doc on host clubs in osaka japan. 2 hours later….. the lesson learned would be to tune in exclusively to… ummm… the french real estate network next time.