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Mira climbed a Mountain!

Today at work I discovered that someone 3/4 of americans surveyed* call this a toboggan.
At first I was convinced that it was some conspiracy – that we Canadians had taught Americans to talk about the sleds that they wear on their heads to give us a good laugh, instead of letting them know the real word for said hat.

Then I checked wikipedia. Figures — Canadians would never be that sneaky. I really ought to move.

*I asked 4.

group hug!
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First tea at the Windsor Arms. I even got a picture with a movie star! Yay!
Hurray for fun. It’s weekends like these that make me love my city.

please perforate your tickets
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Saturday I had a wonderful film festival experience. Started by seeing Souvenir of Canada with Adam, Emily Rose, and Becca. Boy did they do a terrific job. The movie was hilarious and made me love canada even more than i already did.

I also got a kick out of hearing Douglas Coupland’s voice, both as a narrator of the movie and also during the Q&A. He’s wonderfully quirky and random.

We then stood around to see the celbs arrive for the next movie, which was the premiere of Winter Passing. Once boredom set in we headed over to the Duke of Cambridge to join in the post Souvenir of Canada festivities. I saw Coupland from a distance but didn’t go and talk to him because I was just too scared.

We followed this with dinner at an unpretentious Thai place on Bloor, followed by a leisurely stroll through Yorkville to the soundtrack of shrieking star seekers who were crowded outside of the Four Seasons.

Ended up the evening on the Rock with our souvenirs of canada. You know, you can’t stop the rock.

• Barfing until 5 AM, but waking up fine so that I don’t have an excuse to take a sick day
• Finding out a good friend is engaged in the “shout outs” section of a group email sent by a different friend.
• Having a doctor cut open my foot to find what is stuck in it, only to tell me he can’t see anything.
• Having a hole in my foot, and not being able to take a bath.

Haha. They cut Leanne out of the picture.

Bye Bye Brushed Metal!

(via Elfred)

Note: If you’re not a nerd don’t bother following the link. You won’t get it and will end up mocking me for finding it funny in the first place. Actually, scratch that – if you’re not a nerd you probably already mock me for blogging so go ahead and waste your time!

Be our Idol Melissa!

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Here’s hoping my watch is accurate.