haha that post was... perhaps... excessive i have just not had a lot of apt hunting luck in this city :/
― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
np, I am steeled for probs. I applied to the grad housing so that I have the option, though it may already be full. A room in a 3/4 bed apartment is $864 per month (or about 100 more for a slightly bigger room). That does cover utilities including internet.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
yah thats probably slightly above market but if its really close to u of t its not terrible. most roomshares in the westend are either 700+ or total shitholes unless you luck into something where the ppl have had the place for a long time or s.thing
― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 02:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah my friends recently upped their limit for a 2br to $1400 to find something good... Under $1k solo is almost always a basement sadly
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 02:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tbh although it'll be a wrench in some ways to share again, I'm not sure that living alone is the best way to face the massive lifestyle change from long working days filled with people and immediate work stuff to relative loner life at grad school.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh and obv let me know if your nicest, friendliest and yet most understanding-of-space-needs friends and acquaintances are looking for a roommate.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good point! I'm not sure I'd want to live alone either. Will think on roommate possibilities for you!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks! (NB I am 40 which might render me undesirable to many potential roommates). How was the bus to NY?
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will be passing through the TOR airport in early May as I make a connection to Paris. I must say I'm looking forward to everyone I pass saying hello. (thinks) Well, I guess it could get old in a hurry.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
The bus was.. Okay :) Waiting for E right now, exciting!! I don't think 40 is a problem - more me trying to think of friends who might move! Most of my friends are mid 30s but all partnered up and condoed down.
I realize now that my natural state for walking around streets IS to smile, trying to keep a game face on haha. Aimless I will beam in the airport's general direction!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks! And good luck with finding a great apartment situation within your budget, ffm.
I think the big thing about cities that erodes friendliness is just the sheer number of people you have to deal with on a casual nod and smile basis. At a certain point, it becomes trying and tiresome and beyond that point it advances past frantic to plain impossible. It's not really that big city people are less capable of friendly smiles; it just gets squeezed out of them by circumstances.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh it's me looking for a great apartment situation (upcoming move), ffm already has one!
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
wishes for apt. luck duly transferred
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thank you, they are warmly accepted
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will only leave my current apartment for a house! I'll squat if I must. Heh.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 12 April 2012 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Will be dropping into TO at the end of May/start of June for a conference (an I'm-gonna-study-this-stuff one, not a current-work one)... too early to look for a place, but in any case just found out I won't hear about the grad school housing I applied to till the end of June.
― ljubljana, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
so it figures! Sister needs a roommate for July 1. But she's looking for someone student age/you would probably be driven nuts living with her anyway (I love her.. but yeah. Little sisters.)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
but I did share it on FB just now if you want to take a look ;)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks! I can't see it on FB for some reason? I think I may drive a young and fun person crazy though :-(
― ljubljana, Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
You could level each other out ;) Maybe on my profile you can see it? (on phone rn, on streetcar!)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
No I don't see it - but don't worry - I honestly think I'm probably best enjoyed by the late 20s and up crowd :-) I really appreciate you thinking of it though!
― ljubljana, Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
:D only listing I've seen, so thought I'd mention it. Completely understood though!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am here, at a conference that is blowing my mind with the enormity of the decision to back to school... Heading back home tomorrow night. Wasn't organised enough to even ask about FAP but if anyone is interested my megabus isn't till 11.30pm.... but plan A is to hit a movie - any recommendations for good downtown theaters not a million miles from the Coach Terminal?
― ljubljana, Saturday, 2 June 2012 01:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
Moving up this coming Thursday from Mtl. Anxious!
― Simon H., Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
The Carlton is close to the terminal.
― Ò (Ówen P.), Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
thanks - might see Monsieur Lazhar.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
Wish I could but I'm running around all day tomorrow! Have fun. :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
I like your city! (Which is a huge relief).
― ljubljana, Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
Glad you liked it!
― poxen, Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
Toronto is a good place to be!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
I guess I may as well ask here: best cheap eats in Koreatown and/or the Annex? That's where I'm headed.
― Simon H., Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
There are millions of restaurants around there, I'm not very sure.. I tend to get pizza or pub hamburgers ;)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 2 June 2012 14:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
Buk Chang Dong for Korean, A+. I eat there once a week.
― Ò (Ówen P.), Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
I was passing through the Toronto airport just last Monday, but most of the eating establishments I saw there were either Tim Hortons and Coyote Jacks. (frowny face)
― Aimless, Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
I've never heard of CJ... There's a Wolfgang Puck's & Starbucks in t1 for future reference :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
Head on out to Pearson airport and buy a ticket for somewhere so you can pass through security. Once inside you may experience the wonder that is Coyote Jack... if you dare!
― Aimless, Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
Or you could just go to Facebook and check it out.
― Aimless, Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
[impassioned defence of Tim Horton's]
― poxen, Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
Pearson is soo far.. I'll stick to the crappy fast food I know and love. (And I do love me some Timmie's!)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 2 June 2012 22:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
I had my first Tim H's this morning! Breakfast sandwich with egg and ham on the English muffin. When I arrive for real maybe I'll branch out to the biscuit.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 3 June 2012 01:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
On the overnight bus back from Toronto to DC the only people talking were immediately behind me, and I was riveted. Two kids, a girl and a guy, who didn't know each other, introducing themselves to one another - it was a great refresher on the Things on the Minds of Today's Yoof. Lots lots of awkward stuff where I could tell what one of them was thinking about what the other one just said even though I couldn't see either of them. She wouldn't stop interrogating him - there would be a silence during which she was clearly thinking of something else to say and then she'd go for it ('what is your favourite drink?') She also started talking on the phone to her friend in a British accent and asked her new companion how good this sounded, and I just had to turn around and say it was pretty good (it was). She nearly lost her mind with excitement at discovering my Britisherness and it turns out that imitating British accents and trying to get really good at it is A Thing amongst 21-year olds in Denver. Anyway, she was lovely really (even if she then wouldn't stop making me say things) and I was glad I sat near them.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
Awww! Rest assured I will make you say things over our inevitable future pint. And perhaps you will find the way I pronounce things as charming as ENBB did. I think I had her say 'wicked smaht' for me.
My Timmie's sandwich of choice is the sausage and egg one, on the English muffin. The biscuit is delicious but you can just about feel your arteries harden, it's so greasy.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
Don't worry, you'll learn how putrid Tim Horton's is in time enough.
― Hennesy Williams (EDB), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
(You'll learn to dodge these types quickly. Everyone's over everything in Toronto.)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
Tim Horton's Camp Day! This day is special to me because my underpriveleged sister got sent to camp about 12 years ago on this organization's dime. If you're around, it's worth donating!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
Everything is over anyways, but that's no excuse for ubiquitous low quality cafe chains and kitsch-laden symbols of Canadian nationalism.
― Hennesy Williams (EDB), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
I like cheap coffee. And camp day. What do you recommend? I brew coffee at home, but have Second Cup, Starbucks, Timothy's & Druxy's around the office for when the thermos isn't enough. I default to Druxy's when I don't want to walk in the rain/snow to Tim's.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
Well, I wouldn't recommend a chain, is the thing.
― Hennesy Williams (EDB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 08:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
So I should ride the subway & hop a streetcar down to Kensington? :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 7 June 2012 11:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
Maybe the Mom and Pop Korean place makes coffee.
My nearly 6 year old loves the Octonauts, but that's British and probably skews younger because it's on the same channel as shows for preschoolers like Cailllou. There must some CanCon on YTV but I don't know what's popular, and that's all anglo. The older brothers of the kids he plays with are mostly into franchises like Pokemon, Doraemon and Star Wars.
If you don't mind stuff from when I was that age, La Guerre des Tuques is a Quebecois movie about an awesome snowball fight with a tearjerking anti war message. I remember liking it (and trying to recreate the snowball war) but have no idea if it holds up. There's an English dubbed version too iirc.
― Plasmon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 13:23 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Oooh, a✧@z✧✧.f✧ has a copy of that (this kid is in Belgium). Thanks, that's a contender. His mum is my age, early 40s, so she'll probably appreciate some old-skool stuff as well. Might snap that up.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 13:28 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or is one of the best kids shows ever made but I think it's France French (vs Canada French), if the differentiation matters to you...
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 13:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I think he has that, but will check. I thought I'd go for Canada French just to remind him I'm here in Canada and thinking of him (awwww)
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:11 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
You should also send him a link to the National Film Board's Hockey Sweater, there's a French version but I can't tell on mobile if this is it: http://www.nfb.ca/film/sweater/
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:25 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
That looks great, FFM, I'll send that too. I ordered La Guerre des Tuques - thanks Plasmon.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:06 (2 weeks ago) Permalink