Nizlopi - JCB Song.

I was introduced to this amazing British band tonight, Nizlopi. For those of you who have not met them yet - please take some time to get acquainted with them. This is the video for their Christmas Song (think Love Actually) hit: The JCB song.

It might be one of the most beautiful and sweet and heart warming songs I've ever heard. The last minute is truly amazing.

Snow! Snow! Snow!

Words cannot do this day justice... so here are a few pictures that I took on my wanderings today.

Buried Under A Snow Drift.

It is snowing like crazy here in Toronto - like absolute madness. UofT is closing down because of severe weather conditions. I had to walk through snow banks up to my knee to get to the bus stop. Maddness.

I love it.

Who knew that snow could make me love Toronto more!

I will post some pictures of the snow tonight when (if) I am make it home.... course I also have to make it to that PhD party tonight too... maybe we should make drinks with the snow!

Visuals of a Lipsett Visit

Girls hitting the City Streets...

Today was a total girl's day for me - I had a fantastic coffee with Holly this morning. We talked about her upcoming trip to New York in April with me giving hotel suggestions and then about a possible mini excursion that our little group might take somewhere while her boyfriend is here. And then, we talked about next year's trip when I go visit her in England.

After that, I met up with Lindsey at Future (it is not actually Future's - although we will continue to call it that) and had glorious amounts of coffee and food. We stared at the hot guy that we have become friends with - and both created fantasies where he has a pick up truck and drives around in it with his big dog, who Lindsey thinks he should name Girlfriend. I managed to write my response to Uncle Tom's Cabin - finally done!!! YAY!!!! While Linds vibrated in her chair because of the amount of coffee she had. When I could not longer watch the vibrating Lindsey, we wandered off to her place to get ready to go clothes shopping.

And man did we ever shop. First we met up with Claire and hit up Sehpora, where I almost bought Prada cologne. Then onto various stores to find a pair of jeans for Lindsey - when we hit up Jacob we knew we had found the goldmine. A huge 60% off sale everything. Linds got a sweater and jeans for 30 bucks.

H&M was next - where I bought Jeans for 29 bucks. Then RW&Co - hello cute brown sweater (10 bucks) and Grey blazer (20 bucks) for Matt!

I almost bought shoes at Holts - but realized I needed to stop spending!

We then hit home and had dinner - don't ask what we had... I won't tell.

It was a great day - gossip, coffee, food, clothes... what more could a girl (and her gay boyfriend) ask for.

In the Words of Ms. Minogue... Wow.

Today was a great day. I got to school a bit later than I wanted - did not get that reading done, although from the tiny amount of time we actually spent talking about that article in class I didn't even need to photocopy it - and had really good Udon soup at my new fav place The Noodle Bowl. I think that was a run on sentence. After that, I grabbed myself a coffee and walked down to University College in FREEZING COLD WEATHER for class.

How cold was it you ask? Very Very Very cold - I could not feel my skin except for massive amounts of pain all over my face.

Class was good - I am starting to like this Victorian Unconscious stuff a bit more, and when we start talking about the actual literature, it will get even better I am sure. Once class was done, Kate, Danny, Vanessa, Dara, Sarah and I all went to this lovely little cafe on Harbord Street that served the best sandwiches and desserts in the world. I had a roast chicken sandwich - my god it was to die for. I really want to try that chocolate thing that Danny had though... it was like an orgasm on a plate waiting to happen!

We all wandered over to see Marjorie Garber give a lecture - well let me tell you, I can now safely say that I have renewed faith in literature, the humanities and in my choice to do a PhD. She is an amazing lecturer and scholar - she was talking about the possible end to the humanities as a discipline and why that might be happening and what will come after this "end to humanities." One of her biggest points was to suggest a new kind of academia that is wholly interdisciplinary. I took issue with this. After the lecture, I asked her where she saw queer studies, women studies, and gender studies fitting into the paradigm and whether she felt that these concepts would remain labeled as such. We discussed this at length for a little while.

I felt all important.

Once we left the lecture, I met up with Lindsey for some much needed girl time in Robarts.

Just been one of those days that deserves a wow. A good wow.

Tomorrow - more girl time as we prepare for the cocktail party and get Linds ready for her Oxford Ball. (I am vetting jewelry).

That Happen?

Odd thing happened today - I had a date. It was a good date - started out as just coffee and then spiraled into some book shopping and then dinner.

We walked to the subway and were even going the same way. Then, at St. George where we were going our separate ways (me west and him east)...

He kissed me.

On the subway platform.

Damn...