… fewer deadlines. The last couple weeks I’ve just been feeling so slammed with work, and then I added on working at the polls and volunteering at the Libraries Book sale, and the film fest. April has already been the cruelest month and we’re only one week in. Late March was kind of mean, too. … [Read more…]
I’ve been home for almost a week and of course the most important thing is what I’ve been cooking. My last Canadian meal was a Tim Horton’s donut. I can’t remember what I had for dinner when I got home Monday. Tuesday morning getting ready to work, I brewed a pot of coffee with no … [Read more…]
Sunday was the last day of the fest, and my last day in Toronto. Our last movie was Radioactive, based on the book by Lauren Redniss, that was the Go Big Read book during the 2012-13 school year. The movie was live action, rather than animated, and the director is the author of another graphic … [Read more…]
The second Saturday of TIFF was a four movie day. Two were easy and two were hard, and one of the easy ones wasn’t very good. The first hard one was A Hidden Life, Terence Malick’s gorgeous, slow-moving story of an Austrian farmer who refused to pledge allegiance to Hitler, and fight in the German … [Read more…]
Thursday was a 3-movie day but not starting until 2:30, so we walked to the Distillery District for breakfast. We investigated the menu at Cluny Bistro, but decided on an old favorite, a meatloaf sandwich and a bacon & egg sandwich from Brick Street Bakery. We ate our sandwiches outside, got coffee at Balzac’s, and … [Read more…]
I worked all morning recording a lecture for one of my classes that I’m not very happy with, but have not re-done. Mark walked to Saint Lawrence Market and came back with bananas and strawberries and we had sandwiches using the jalapeño havarti and turkey lunch meat we bought last week, and fruit for breakfast. … [Read more…]
We finished the yogurt, with bananas and toast for breakfast. Our first movie of the day was Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson and Laura Dern as basically the same character she plays in Big Little Lies – the high power, new age-y business woman. It was both fun to watch … [Read more…]
Saturday morning we got up and went to Saint Lawrence Market, after getting coffee at Black Bear, our local. We bought peaches and plums and tomatoes and bananas. We bought another sweet cheese bagel and a mini cinnamon roll and an almond croissant and that was breakfast. Maybe because I didn’t get coffee right away, … [Read more…]
We were supposed to get to Toronto about 2:00 in the afternoon, but ended up not arriving till 4:00. The main downside was we had to lug our big suitcases on the rush hour subway. A Canadian-nice young guy gallantly helped me carry mine up the stairs to the street despite somebody behind us yelling … [Read more…]