I Wish Summer Wasn't Going By So Quickly

Yesterday I went to a volunteer recruitment session for the Toronto International Film Festival with Cass and Jen. We signed up for shifts at the Isabel Bader Theatre right on the U of T campus for convenience. I'm quite excited- should be fun!

The session lasted for 2.5 hours after which I met up with Justine, Brad and Michelle for "lunch" for about an hour at Duke of Richmond. Michelle and Justine were going to go with me to the Beaches Jazz Festival but they ditched me! Justine went back uptown for her b-day dinner with family and Michelle went off to go shopping instead. I met back up with Cass and Jen, who had both gone shopping at the Eaton Center, because Cass said she was going to go to the Beaches too. But she ditched me too to continue her shopping. T_T

So in the end it was just Chris and I who went off to the Jazz Fest. We walked along Queen St. East and along the boardwalk and back up to Queen. After 7pm all the bands started playing outside stores and restaurants- many of them playing blues and country...?? I didn't understand that. We only encountered one band playing big band jazz, and we only caught less than a minute of their playing before they packed up! :( We had dinner at a Thai restaurant then headed to Elmocambo for the Emily Haines solo show. It was so unbearably hot in that place, but luckily I had my TIFF volunteer booklet to use as a fan. The show was pretty good- Emily came out at 11pm and played until midnight. The songs she played were slow and mellow and included a few Metric songs. It was just her pretty voice and the piano, which made for a beautiful performance. Too bad she was so shy... she came out blindfolded and barely turned around from the piano to face the audience. But at one point she stopped playing and started doing the robot on the stage, which provided some laughs.

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I'm finally getting my LCD monitor tomorrow!! It's been almost a year since I've had my computer, yet I didn't have my own monitor. I've been using an old CRT mon from 1995; it takes up too much space so I've had to use my computer downstairs. Now I've got to clean up my bedroom to finally make space for my computer. Now comes all the distractions: TV, movies, music, MSN :O I hope I don't become a hermit in my room.