This afternoon I went on a Walking Meetup organized by Matthew. We met near Yonge & Eglinton and walked down to Yonge & Bloor. And we were pretty brisk: it only took about an hour.
A dozen people came, with some nice variety. (One mother brought her son.) I was talking to a German girl wearing sandals, with a ring on one toe. I was also talking to an Iraqi girl who's been reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a feminist critical of Islam.
At the end of the walk, we had lunch at Hue's Kitchen. I ordered the butter chicken with brown rice, and the girl sitting next to me ordered the same thing. I got served first, but I gave her the first serving and waited for the second. (Gentleman or what?)
You wouldn't expect to meet people you know by chance in a city as big as Toronto. But that happened twice to me last week! On Wednesday I went to a second meeting of the bereavement support group (I had a headache and had to leave early), and on the subway on the way there I met Sara, organizer of the Board Games Meetup. It was a bit awkward because I haven't been to that group for a while.
Then on Thursday, I went to Beguiling in Mirvish Village tp buy another volume of Fantagraphics' series of the complete comic strip Peanuts, from 1971 to 1974--I remember seeing some episodes at the time! I also got some cheap reprints of Mad magazine, including Dave Berg Looks at the U.S.A., and Dennis the Menace Rides Again. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, just afterward I met Alex, organizer of the Life Begins at Forty Meetup. And I reminded him I'd be attending his screening of The Postman Always Rings Twice on Monday.
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