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I was going to declare this a Johari Square-free zone, but then I thought, what the heck. You can only say positive things about anyone and everyone, and it costs nothing. ^^; (Yes, there is a Nohari Window too, I just saw it.)

As aforementioned, serendip is in town. On Saturday night Ced and I took her out to Piknic Electronik, snow fest edition - there were ice sculptures and a playground made out of snow blocks for the kids, a bar tent serving hot mulled wine and Caribou [1], those clever Hydro-Quebec infrared warming huts, et cetera. Ate beaver tails [2] and baguette and brie, drank cocoa spiked with brandy, and had a spectacular spill on the inner tube sledding range with a bruised knee to show for it. As for the music the DJ replacing Akufen played house and wasn't bad, Mini played electro and was sadly cut off at 11PM. The stage was akin to a Jazz Fest setup only the crowd was dancing in snow instead of a gravel parking lot (snow is better than gravel because it can be tossed in the air for neat sparkly lighting effects). There was a best ski suit in audience contest. XD

Andrew was supposed to join us but by the time he arrived the show was over and everyone was leaving, so we ended up heading back to his and Shawn's apartment to hang out for an hour or so. It was cold but sunny with no wind, so all this outdoor activity was tolerable though by the end of the night we were freezing. Jae had to bus back to her B&B because the metro had stopped. :/

Sunday also cold and sunny. Lunched with Jae at Aux Deux Maries (my favorite café on Saint-Denis, a block above the Lush store), then took the metro to Square Victoria and walked her through the Underground City up to Peel, with a stop at McGill to poke briefly around campus. Ended up sitting around and chatting in the new Concordia Arts & Sciences building for an hour, then had dinner with Ced at a French restaurant he recommended. Today we are going for moules et frites I think...?

I should really remember to bring my camera around with me this week. But I have been a spazz this weekend (everything from taking the metro in the wrong direction to dripping maple taffy all over myself to getting a microscopic shard of plastic lodged in my toe and inexplicably bleeding all over the place from the equally microscopic cut it made), I am afraid I shall lose it at this rate. XD;;


[1] an alcoholic drink I will probably review on twobuckchuck, not the meat of a reindeer-like animal.

[2] Not actually the tails of beavers. Beavers are not edible, they will give you a virus.

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Possible writingspam journal usernames (all the ones I really want are taken, mind you):

* osmanthus_tea
* parkhamsterdam
* fandombreva

Iffy about tying myself to a given fandom, but perhaps leamondaine? menosventi?

Comments

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

[2] Not actually the tails of beavers. Beavers are not edible, they will give you a virus.

Wood alcohol isn't potable and will melt your head from the inside...don't mean us Russians don't drink it!

...and now, I am sorely disappointed, as I was already about to start googling for the one place in NYC where one *could* try beaver tail...

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Really? What happens to you if you eat a beaver tail? 0_o (Mad beaver disease?) Is this something new? I was reading that in the old days people did indeed the tails of beavers.

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

No, it was a contest for the worse winter suit. *g*