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Late night rambling
Jun. 12th, 2004 12:25 amHmm, I'm falling behind on updating again. Although I'm still doing better than I ever did with a paper journal, where I averaged about one entry per month. When I remembered at all.
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semiotic_trader and a_just_society were in town last weekend for a friend's wedding, and stayed over at my place. It was nice seeing them. We went out for brunch on Saturday, which also happened to be MacGuy's birthday. The original plan was to do a birthday brunch (and in fact, Saturday was chosen as the day at MacGuy's request), but he then decided at the last minute that he was going running, so we ended up with three for brunch. The place we went to was okay, but not great (scrambled eggs should not be brown). The only reason I'd ever consider going back is that it's a two minute walk from my place, and since I'm moving at the end of the summer, that probably means that I'll never be back there for brunch.
The four of us snuck out to see Harry Potter in between the wedding and reception. That was quite enjoyable, although it felt a bit short and a couple of things were left out that I would have liked to see included. Later in the day, MacGuy and I wandered down to the Distillery District with a couple of friends, and then back to the Four Seasons for supper. Decent food, excellent service, and reasonably affordable as long as you're not drinking. Well, sort of. Did I mention the excellent service?
I was watching a show last night on Canadian speech patterns. There was the usual hoose/aboot stuff, of course, and the role of "eh" in Canadian speech. More interesting were the differences between Canadian and American intonation, and the great vowel shift (box to bax) that's been taking place in virtually all major northern American cities over the past fifty years without touching a single Canadian border city. Who knew that speech patterns respected political borders? It was also interesting learning of certain common words and phrases that are strictly Canadian. Toque and serviette I already knew, but bird course, eavestrough, and "had the biscuit" were all surprises.
( Mandatory commentary on upcoming Canadian federal election. )
( Fangirl commentary. )
semiotic_trader and a_just_society were in town last weekend for a friend's wedding, and stayed over at my place. It was nice seeing them. We went out for brunch on Saturday, which also happened to be MacGuy's birthday. The original plan was to do a birthday brunch (and in fact, Saturday was chosen as the day at MacGuy's request), but he then decided at the last minute that he was going running, so we ended up with three for brunch. The place we went to was okay, but not great (scrambled eggs should not be brown). The only reason I'd ever consider going back is that it's a two minute walk from my place, and since I'm moving at the end of the summer, that probably means that I'll never be back there for brunch.The four of us snuck out to see Harry Potter in between the wedding and reception. That was quite enjoyable, although it felt a bit short and a couple of things were left out that I would have liked to see included. Later in the day, MacGuy and I wandered down to the Distillery District with a couple of friends, and then back to the Four Seasons for supper. Decent food, excellent service, and reasonably affordable as long as you're not drinking. Well, sort of. Did I mention the excellent service?
I was watching a show last night on Canadian speech patterns. There was the usual hoose/aboot stuff, of course, and the role of "eh" in Canadian speech. More interesting were the differences between Canadian and American intonation, and the great vowel shift (box to bax) that's been taking place in virtually all major northern American cities over the past fifty years without touching a single Canadian border city. Who knew that speech patterns respected political borders? It was also interesting learning of certain common words and phrases that are strictly Canadian. Toque and serviette I already knew, but bird course, eavestrough, and "had the biscuit" were all surprises.
( Mandatory commentary on upcoming Canadian federal election. )
( Fangirl commentary. )
