Toronto Library
April 26 2011

This isn't about a stranger, just a strange moment. I'm in the Toronto library but trying to log onto the Mississauga library website and it will not open, it just refuses.

I don't think I posted about pizza boy yet. I was at school and this guy just had this whole pizza box to himself, it was great! I kind of wished we were friends because I was hungry at the time.

April 2011
Work

I am working on cash and it's a very busy Thursday and I am in that routine saying hello, how are you, this is $___, your change is $____, thank you have a nice day. A couple comes up around the age of 40 and they are talking to me. And I understand them, but something is not right, something is different in the way they are talking. I realize after some time it's actually in Polish. He is going on about how he wants to return this item his wife has purchased because they don't want it. And I have to stop them and I tell them to hold on. How did they know I could speak Polish? And the man answered, that he just figured. (What do you mean you just figured? You can't do that!) So I said ok and helped them with the rest of the questions. I don't think I looked especially Polish that day, so we figured they have had to have seen me at church or something. But it was just funny since usually people at least ask, do you speak ____? I guess sometimes at work people come up and just start speaking to me in Spanish or Portuguese as well..

April 26 2011
Lillian H. Smith Library

It's a rainy day and I am off to meet P in a few hours, I decided to come to the library. I am sitting in the Chinese area with a bunch of old men reading Chinese newspapers around me. I will learn Mandarin one day. Another man has come up with a red and black knit sweater and sat beside me staring. I try to ignore him but this is just getting awkward. I turn around to face him and he asked if I know what the cables/plugs he is holding are. Is one an adapter? Does this one go into a TV? He found the laptop and cables in the trash and put it together himself. He is bald too. I saw I don't really know much about computers, and PC's anymore. He figured I did because I had a Mac. I told him to check online. He proceeded to ask someone else. There is a man burping in the other bookshelf. He think he is hiding from everyone but we can all still hear him. Ah, one of the old men at my table has just gotten up and is reading his newspaper standing up, he doesn't want to sit anymore. This is my first live post here, it's exciting.


UPDATE: The man proceeded to ask the other boy about his computer and it made a lot of strange sounds, after awhile he left to go to the bathroom or whatever. And it's been 3 hours since he has left his laptop there. Even when I was leaving no sign of him. There is a man snoring right beside it. And a man in an amazing Western outfit sitting beside me.

Discovered by J. We went to our Polish church on Sunday and decided to go to the Centrum right after. They had booths set up inside and it had been awhile since we had gone through. There was no books however. There were jars of honey and bug jewelry and Polish baby shirts. And then there was the table filled with random old lady jewelry and everyone singing happy birthday aka Sto Lat to the two ladies with names like Ania and Ewa and all the old people taking shots. Gosh I love old happy Polish people.

This was a day in December 2010, where it was still cold but two guys on the same bus route decided to wear shorts. Bah Canada, sometimes you drive me crazy. Like look at the second photo, the guy beside is full on in long pants and a coat, why would you even think of leaving your house in just shorts? I have more creeper, phone photos..stay tuned. This is how everyone gets sick. This year I wore a scarf always and even a hat. I bought hats this winter..which is something I never, ever do. And a winter coat for the first time after like 4 years and I didn't get sick once. Yes more grandma talk. But you see it all the time, girls going to clubs in mini skirts and no coat so they don't have to pay for coat check. And then wondering why they are sick the next week. And I realized our winters are not even that cold. It was a nice winter this year for sure.

In second year I think it was, I was out on Queen Street taking photos for Think Tank class I believe. Suddenly, this lady approached me and asked if I take modelling photos. I looked at her for maybe too long because well, she was mm older and I said no I am just taking photos for a class. She asked if I would be interested in taking some photos for her hair salon. I could get some work done for my portfolio and get some experience and what not. So she gave me her card and I agreed to go the next week or whenever.

Why do I throw myself into these situations? I would come to her salon once a week or something and she found out I did graphic design. We had a trade, she'd do my hair and hook me up with clients and I would do GD work and photos. It was hard working with someone who barely knew how to e-mail something. I didn't have the patience. And some people you just don't click with and she was a bit awkward. But I did have nice hair for some time and got to go to a pretty cool fashion show before Circa closed down..it was all very random and awkward is the only way I could put it.