I had a very full weekend. Friday, I visited lovely Laura (who just got hired, congrats!). We did a quick little photo shoot for VR— OG I look so much better when Laura photographs me, haha. We watched a bit of 'Idiot Abroad', Ricky Gervais's latest project. We had a great night— Thomas came down for a visit! It has been ages we hung out, just the three of us. We caught up on eachothers' lives and had some laughs. We had delicious sushi for dinner and headed over to the Cannon Theatre to see Cirque du Soleil's latest endeavour: Banana Shpeel.
Banana Shpeel is Cirque's take on a vaudeville show. It has some great moments, for sure! There is an incredibly talented foot-juggler, a few mind-boggling acrobats and three very talented contortionists. All three of us laughed hysterically at three farcically funny clowns. There were some dancers that were pretty talented… but a little boring. It was so great to spend a night laughing with two of my very best friends!
Saturday night, my Mom and I headed downtown to check out this year's Nuit Blanche. We saw some interesting stuff. There was a great sound/video exhibit by Daniel Lanois and 'Allegory for a Rock Opera' by Derek Liddington in Yongue/Dundas Sq. Our favourite was 'Monument to Smile' by Agnes Winter— probably not the most legitimate installation by an artist's standards, but I loved seeing the beautiful portraits of hundreds of Torontonians projected on the side of Holt Renfrew, sychronized to Michael Jackon's rendition of 'Smile'. It was nice to spend time with my Mom, but I don't think we'll be going again next year… it just seemed to be a whole lot of walking, a whole lot of people… and a whole lot of food vendors. Ironically, our favourite part of Nuit Blanche… wasn't really supposed to be a part of the night (I don't think). Outside the Eaton Centre, in a little park, someone had hung hundreds of small paper cranes from some trees. They were waving in the breeze, casting soft shadows in the light of the street lamps.
Sunday, Kayla and I headed out on a shopping trip in search of our Glee costumes. All I need for my costume is a brown wig, but that seems to be the only kind of wig missing from every costume shop in Newmarket. Also, we didn't see ANY cheerleader costumes for Kay. *sigh* I guess we'll have to check online.
The most exciting thing that has happened is— that I got a job! I can't believe I've been home for less than 6 weeks and I've got myself a bona-fide salary-paying full-time job (with benefits)— and it's in my field, too! I start tomorrow morning! My Dad asked me this morning: 'How are your going to spend your last day of freedom?'
I slept in until about 9 am (I was hitting 'snooze' for about an hour before I finally got out of bed.) I had a long, leisurely breakfast of a cheese and pickle sandwich and orange juice, while reading the morning paper and 'Equal Rites', the third book in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series. Then, I went for a little run. — Sorry, little interruption here. I've signed up for a running clinic with 'The Running Room', so I'm just building up a little bit of endurance so I can keep up with my running group.— Later, I took a stroll around IKEA with Kayla before meeting up with Andrew, Meg and Jay to see 'Catfish'— a film we've been really excited to see since Kayla saw the filmmakers being interviewed on Ellen.View the trailer here. I wont say anything about the movie (because I'll probably give away the ending— which is really good, by the way). But go see it!
