[BRIEF NOTE] What's Up Lately?
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schizmatic Saturday night were good. Among other things, we talked about this.
This afternoon, I picked up a Toronto Public Library card from the Parkdale branch, just 10 minutes walk to my west.
Those of my readers who are Islanders will recognize that name--Parkdale was a former suburb of the city of Charlottetown before amalgamation in the mid-1990s, a suburban collection of residential districts and strip malls. I assure those readers that Toronto's Parkdale is rather different, with a large immigrant population, particularly Vietnamese and Caribbean, both Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean. The public library has an excellent collection of books on the Caribbean, incidentally. It was fun to pick up the free weekly papers put out by different segments of the community and to read them. The prevalence of Indian and Vietnamese movie-rental shops gives me ideas for the future.
Like, when I own a television, or a DVD player, or a VCR. I do own some furniture, though; or, at least, I will. A side table and a set of drawers constitutes a start, a futon next. Having some things will help give me a sense of permanence, I suppose. Or I hope.
More will come later. It always does, one hopes.
schizmatic Saturday night were good. Among other things, we talked about this.This afternoon, I picked up a Toronto Public Library card from the Parkdale branch, just 10 minutes walk to my west.
Those of my readers who are Islanders will recognize that name--Parkdale was a former suburb of the city of Charlottetown before amalgamation in the mid-1990s, a suburban collection of residential districts and strip malls. I assure those readers that Toronto's Parkdale is rather different, with a large immigrant population, particularly Vietnamese and Caribbean, both Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean. The public library has an excellent collection of books on the Caribbean, incidentally. It was fun to pick up the free weekly papers put out by different segments of the community and to read them. The prevalence of Indian and Vietnamese movie-rental shops gives me ideas for the future.
Like, when I own a television, or a DVD player, or a VCR. I do own some furniture, though; or, at least, I will. A side table and a set of drawers constitutes a start, a futon next. Having some things will help give me a sense of permanence, I suppose. Or I hope.
More will come later. It always does, one hopes.
