November 14, 2004
Leap of Faith
It's been a pretty good week. Long though, I had 6 days of work in a row while two of the managers are out of town. Thankfully I have today and tomorrow off to recover and get some stuff done. Namely I have to get in touch with another magazine tomorrow that N, a coworker, is the Canadian rep for, and he's hopefully got me a job with them for their February issue...fingers crossed. Work is still going well. I'm still having a lot of fun. Also tomorrow I have to seriously start working on my Western application...reference letters, an autobiographical essay...fun stuff.
Nothing too exciting happened this weekend...my schedule and raging anemia (why am I so tired????) rendered practice relatively impossible. I was planning on going this morning, but G ended up staying over last night and I had breakfast plans this morning, so it didn't work out, but my schedule is such this coming week that I hope to get things back on track. I'm for sure going to J's class tomorrow night.
Ended up going out on Wednesday night straight from work. R mentioned to me that he and a friend were going to be checking out happy hour at Sharx and that I was welcome to join...L and A from work ended up coming along too. We had a lot of fun playing pool, bowling, grabbed some dinner and then went to McKibbin's for a couple hours. It was a good night. Learned some sad news about R's imminent employment future, but it is also, er, shall we say, interesting...potentially fruitful.
Thurday night we had the usual get together...T and K who have now moved in two doors down dropped by, and we were all so happy to see Chris get booted on The Apprentice. I'm a little upset that G's still so obsessed with Survivor so we can't watch the O.C. instead...I feel it's something that I could get shamefully addicted to!!!
Friday night was low key at home with A and P...I barely made it to 10 o'clock. Yesterday was thankfully my last day of work until Tuesday. Came home, had a glass of wine, had some dinner with A and then headed over to G's house..we came up with a list of criteria for a place that we wanted to go out to...it had to be: not too loud, comfortable and with ample seating, on St. Laurent, not too pricey and nice (i.e. not a sticky floored dive)...thankfully Z and S were looking for the same thing and we found it in Tinto. We had a lovely night, about 8 of us hanging out and laughing. Meg, G and I left around 1-ish..went to Buddha Bar briefly and then to Tokyo before going home. This morning was breakfast with friends and then shopping all day with G in Westmount and at Au Coeur de la Mode, an annual event that local stores/designers attend, sell their clothes at discounted prices and then part of the proceeds go to AIDS research. We had a good and fruitful time. Went out for dinner...came home...right now I'm just watching a couple documentaries...one about climbing Everest and one about Robert McNamara...I'm obsessed with documentaries. Thinking about rereading Catcher in the Rye for about the gazillionth time..
Has anyone else ever been in a place where they've met someone, found someone, with whom they know they'd be fantastically happpy, but simulataneously thought that it simply wouldn't be viable for reasons beyond either person's control? I'm not certain that it wouldn't be viable, but...I dunno. It's frustrating...to see something right there in front of you and to have to question repeatedly whether or not to take the leap, what the consequences will be, could be, if you do, but even worse, what they'll be if you don't...it's a leap that should be taken I think, but the 'how' of it all continues to evade me. But I think it could be so sweet...
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