[NON BLOG] Weekend Events
Aug. 22nd, 2004 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAs I was heading west on the Queen Street West streetcar Friday at midnight, I began shivering violently. I thought that it was simply a product of the cold outside; the 18th of August, I suppose, was the last summer night in the GTA. It turned out that was a sufficient explanation, but not a complete explanation. More on that later.
I was planning to go to two barbecues on Saturday. The first was intended to be a gathering of dormmates from Queen's, hosted by a former dormmate who conveniently lives in Little Portugal not 15 minutes away from me by foot; the second, a barbecue hosted by another group of friends, over by Church and Wellesley. I had to beg off the second barbecue, as I discovered that the previous night I wasn't shivering only because of the cold, but also because I was developing a case of the flu, the same one that has apparently been making the rounds in Toronto. So, I suppose my sociability rating has dropped unavoidably, but in my defense I went to bed at 7 in the evening yesterday and woke up fully only at 5 today.
The first barbecue was great, even though I had to cut my stay short owing to my developing illness. Three other dormmates were in attendance, including our hostess. We sat in her backyard, a surprisingly large area by downtown Toronto standards, drinking and eating under a grapevine-covered trellis, and catching up. Despite the horror stories from dorm--yes,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
echomyst, I'll write about the knife-wielding fellatio couple shortly, I've not forgotten--I really enjoyed the whole experience. Good people, all of them.
I was planning to go to two barbecues on Saturday. The first was intended to be a gathering of dormmates from Queen's, hosted by a former dormmate who conveniently lives in Little Portugal not 15 minutes away from me by foot; the second, a barbecue hosted by another group of friends, over by Church and Wellesley. I had to beg off the second barbecue, as I discovered that the previous night I wasn't shivering only because of the cold, but also because I was developing a case of the flu, the same one that has apparently been making the rounds in Toronto. So, I suppose my sociability rating has dropped unavoidably, but in my defense I went to bed at 7 in the evening yesterday and woke up fully only at 5 today.
The first barbecue was great, even though I had to cut my stay short owing to my developing illness. Three other dormmates were in attendance, including our hostess. We sat in her backyard, a surprisingly large area by downtown Toronto standards, drinking and eating under a grapevine-covered trellis, and catching up. Despite the horror stories from dorm--yes,
echomyst, I'll write about the knife-wielding fellatio couple shortly, I've not forgotten--I really enjoyed the whole experience. Good people, all of them.
