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March 04, 2005 09:01AM
...white stains on my boots from the salt everyone is putting down to melt the snow, that is. 
This weather is ridiculous. March in Toronto is not supposed to be like this. Snow for 4 days straight. When it stops snowing the temperature plummets. Yes you can get the occasional little snowstorm but it usually melts by the next day.
We've got a forecast for at least the next two weeks of more snow almost every day, and temps way below freezing.
I'm sick to death of wearing heavy boots, giant coats, a scarf and gloves. Taking a change of shoes to work. Nearly falling over several times every day as I slide over paths nobody has bothered to shovel. Wading through lakes of salt-infested slush at every intersection - and standing back far enough to avoid the idiot drivers who whip round a corner sending enough cold messy slush up to cover a dozen poor pedestrians.
Having to crank up the heat at home. My bedroom window being frozen shut for a week.
Oh I'm depressing myself just going on about it. 
I WANT SPRING!
On a positive note, it's Friday - and for the first time in several weeks I don't have to do anything for work on Saturday. 
So maybe it's a good thing the weather is crap. I'll stay home and hibernate and perhaps even finally catch up on some Bowie stuff I've recently received but haven't had a chance to listen to/watch yet.
Yeah - there's a plan! 
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February 24, 2005 09:06AM
Well last night turned out much better than I feared.
A couple of drinks, a bit of food, and some decent conversation.
And - only one or two snide comments about my Bowie-obsession.
One of my friends (who was actually working at the arena for the London Ontario show and said at the time it was 'okay', was raving about it last night, said it was one of the best she'd worked last year. So who can predict people, eh?
She is now in possession of the BBC6 broadcast of the show, lol! 
It's still amazing how much our lives have changed, after catching up on 'gossip' we almost ran out of things to talk about - but it was overall a decent evening.
Good thing it wasn't too late of a night either - got a budget meeting at work this morning and I have no idea what I'm doing!
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February 23, 2005 09:19AM
I'm having dinner and drinks tonight with two old friends I don't see very often anymore - in fact one I haven't seen in almost a year. We used to work, party and vacation together constantly, but in the last few years as lives have changed, we find we have less and less in common.
These are also people who, as we've grown apart, have basically told me I'm acting like a kid when it comes to being a Bowie fan, and it's time to grow up. 
Usually I just laugh it off, but a particularly difficult get-together was after I had been to the Dublin/Wembley/Glasgow shows. They told me I was nuts to arrange to travel with people I'd never met before except online ("anything could have happened, you're 40 years old you should know better"), and even crazier to 'waste' so much money seeing the same performer over and over again ("what's the point? And you went all the way to Ireland/Britain and just did the same thing night after night? Think of what else you could have seen with the money.")
Again I 'sort of' laughed with them, but it actually really hurt that they couldn't be happy for me that I was finally doing something I'd wanted to for years.
Hence not going out of my way to see them lately - every meeting has seemed like an intervention.
It will be nice to catch up on some other topics, but I've already had a hint of things to come on one phone call...some comment along the lines of "I'm sure we'll be hearing lots of Bowie stories" which could be innocent enough but knowing this person as I do I heard the sarcastic tone.
So I shall put on the suit of armour and think positively.
Ha - maybe they're just jealous.
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