[NON BLOG] Friday's Events
May. 28th, 2004 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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schizmatic stayed around at the Indigo on Bay Street in downtown Toronto for 25 minutes after we'd arranged to meet today at noon. I'd underestimated the length of time it would take to reach said Indigo from North York, I fear; also, I'd slept in since I was put up on a waterbed in my host's home. I was quite relieved to meet him by the comics in the science-fiction section.
Thus followed ~7.5 hours of grand fun. We headed over to the in-store Starbucks and immediately began an excellent caffeine-fueled conversation covering a variety of topics. I recommended John Barnes' SF; he recommended Dan Simmons'; we commiserated about the reality of the underfunding of militaries globally, in the US and in the rest of the high/upper-middle income world; and so on, and so forth, until 2 o'clock when we headed down to Mullins Irish Pub (page down) on 1033 Bay Street at his recommendation. Apparently it's a place where many medievalists--and University of Toronto students generally, and profs too--congregate. Conversation goes well over multiple pints of Kilkenny and a beef burger with garden salad, particularly once we ran into a few of his medievalist friends includingpiratehead. Interesting conversations, including the ideologization of the left and right wings beyond the needs and concerns of the individual, descriptions of different RPG universes, and other things ensued.
We'll have to do this again. In the meantime, an early night for me. I've some hope about the searches, I think. More news when hope is manifested concretely.
schizmatic stayed around at the Indigo on Bay Street in downtown Toronto for 25 minutes after we'd arranged to meet today at noon. I'd underestimated the length of time it would take to reach said Indigo from North York, I fear; also, I'd slept in since I was put up on a waterbed in my host's home. I was quite relieved to meet him by the comics in the science-fiction section.Thus followed ~7.5 hours of grand fun. We headed over to the in-store Starbucks and immediately began an excellent caffeine-fueled conversation covering a variety of topics. I recommended John Barnes' SF; he recommended Dan Simmons'; we commiserated about the reality of the underfunding of militaries globally, in the US and in the rest of the high/upper-middle income world; and so on, and so forth, until 2 o'clock when we headed down to Mullins Irish Pub (page down) on 1033 Bay Street at his recommendation. Apparently it's a place where many medievalists--and University of Toronto students generally, and profs too--congregate. Conversation goes well over multiple pints of Kilkenny and a beef burger with garden salad, particularly once we ran into a few of his medievalist friends including
piratehead. Interesting conversations, including the ideologization of the left and right wings beyond the needs and concerns of the individual, descriptions of different RPG universes, and other things ensued.We'll have to do this again. In the meantime, an early night for me. I've some hope about the searches, I think. More news when hope is manifested concretely.
