The Very Snowy Day

I guess it was Wed. evening that we really got hit with snow.  I feel particularly let down because the weather forecast had been for Thurs. to briefly warm up (above freezing at any rate) and then cool down again over the weekend.  Well, that didn't happen.  Maybe the huge mass of snow in the area kept the temperatures down.

I stayed out fairly late on Wed. (at the Rex), and I forced myself to shovel when I got back, though it snowed so much overnight that it didn't look like I had shoveled at all in the morning.  I thought I was going to go back in on Thurs., partly because I had a dentist appointment and partly because I had hoped to check out the same group at the Rex again.  But work was really quite intense and the transit system was suffering a mini-meltdown so I ended up staying home and rescheduling the appointment, then working quite late (not helped by the fact that Excel destroyed about 2 hours of work, somehow saving the file into some black hole that it could not retrieve from later, which was really the icing on the cake).

I did go back out on Friday, and conditions still weren't great.  It certainly isn't as fun to have a snowy day when you are an adult and school isn't cancelled.  (Indeed, the TDSB and TCDSB had snow days, which really are only called once or twice in a decade!).

I suppose reality is always bleaker...

Friday I left for work but at a strange hour.  There were minor delays at every leg of my journey, but I did make it in.  I again was working pretty intensely on top of back to back to back meetings, and I finally had a chance to run out to the bank and for food at 3:15, but all the local food courts were closing up, and I didn't have time to get over to Union Station.  Fortunately, there is a Subway nearby, though it wasn't what I had planned on grabbing.

I left at 5:15 and went straight to Bau-Xi, since I was trying to streamline my activities on Saturday.  It was fine, but they really don't update it nearly as often, leaving all the main exhibits to their Dufferin gallery.  Then I went in and checked out the AGO for a while.  There was a small James Tissot exhibit that was mostly prints.

James Tissot, The Thames, 1876

I also had a chance to see some old favourites, as well as the Light Years exhibit, which has some great photos by Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham and Jeff Wall, as well as several Philip Guston paintings.  This runs through early Nov., so plenty of time to still catch it.

Andy Fabo, The Craft of the Contaminated, 1984

Now what I should be doing is holing up and reading through a huge stack of poetry on loan from the various libraries, but what I will actually do is head out, go swimming, then to the Textile Museum (before it closes for several months!), then try to get up to Bloor for one last shot at getting Lord Vishnu's Love Handles, then down to 401 Richmond, and then if it isn't too late, I'll see a film at TIFF.  I should probably stop by work for a bit.  I guess there is at least a chance I will get over to the Rex, though I think they are sold out tonight.  I will be back to the Rex for a CD release party(!) either Sun. (at seeing Shakespeare Bash'd doing Merchant of Venice) or Mon.  I'm actually running late for all this, so I will circle back and fill in some details later.  Ciao!