On Thursday night, I went for dinner and a JKS show with my friend Paul. He was running a bit late, and as I was waiting for him on the SE corner of Bathurst and Bloor, my friend R (super fit phys ed teacher) ran into me (she was mid-run), and then I chatted with a group of three former students. I guess that's the intersection to be if you want to see people!
The concert was awesome. I saw JKS (lead singer of my favourite band ever, the Weakerthans) back in March when he played with a full band. This time, it was just him and a back-up guitarist. It was a great show! He played lots of new stuff from his solo album, and many Weakerthans old favourites. I can't believe that some of these songs have been with me for so many years. I remember discovering them back in university. How times flies. But lots of things stay the same: like hearing the songs "Pamphleteer" or "Aside" live is always great.
For his finale, he stood on a stool and sang "Virtute the Cat Explains her Departure" out into the crowd. That song breaks my heart because it's about a lost cat, and well, if Rilo ever got lost I would be devastated.
On Friday, Mathew and I did go for Thai at a hole-in-the-wall place he loves and it was excellent. We then watched the Hunger Games, which was good, but not as good as the book, as is the case with movies.
On Saturday, Heather and Jolene came down for the Night Race, and we had a great morning/afternoon of wandering around the city. I splurged on a couple of new books, and got a great birthday present for my work spouse (a pin based on elements!).
The race was fun. The most hilarious part was this year's race shirts were NEON YELLOW and we decided to wear the ugly things. The race itself went well. I was slow, but at least I didn't score a personal worst. The lights we had to wear on our head had a battery life of 17 hours, so our joke was as long as we beat that time, we were good.
On the bus ride home from the race, we heard girls in their twenties planning on going out after the race. We were tired, but I insisted that we go to a pub in our race gear and have beers and nachos so that we could feel young too.
Heather spent the night, so today we did some shopping and lunch, and then caught a movie. I'd wanted to see the documentary "The Queen of Versailles" during HotDocs in May, but it sold out. It's now playing at the Varsity. It was quite good. It's about a really rich couple who started building the largest single-family dwelling in the US, but then got hit by the economic crisis. It's a great conversation movie, that's for sure.
After that, Heather caught her train, and I went home and baked some treats for tomorrow's student council meeting. After that I passed out on my couch.
And soon it's Monday.
Hope it treats you all well.
4 comments:
Your time is always so jam packed! What are you going to dow with your neon shirt now? I would think that if I ever ran a race I. Would go home and pass out on the couch for days, so kudos to you for going out for beer!
Glad to hear that the concert was good, but you knew it would be.
Have a great week ahead!
So glad you had a good weekend, I hope you recover enough to have a good week too!
Glad you had a fun packed weekend including both a race and a concert!
I remember when you first turned me on to the "Virtute the Cat" songs, and they're still some of my favorite.
(Also, I'm blogging again!)
Good for you for racing at night!
I saw that couple on a show like 20/20 or Dateline, they were very ambitious that's for sure!
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