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daSunday, I was visited by friends Sadelle and Ann from Vermont, who came to Toronto for the 9icb conference. Ann's work (middle-school) paid for their travel, all the better. We spent the evening Sunday catching up, talking gender theory, and so on. They are involved in so many cool things: they started a Gay / Straight Student Alliance which is now the largest in the state and they're part of Bennington Pride Coalition which is quite strong- (the group's first public event this year was in April, and they're hooked into the progressive religious community in Bennington as well). I'm sure there are other things that when I heard them I went "wow" but I'm afraid I don't remember them.
The theme of their visit was quite possibly "Mango." We went out to a chinese restaurant within walking distance (review to follow, for locals). One of the dishes we got was chicken with mango; surprisingly delicately flavoured (not one-dimensional mango or very sweet at all). It came with five large mango halves (thirds, more likely) with lots of good stuff piled on top with a mango sauce. Yum.
Sadelle and Ann brought two mangos from Kensington Market which we had yesterday morning with breakfast; a "Sweet Mango" and a regular mango for taste comparison. Mmm. Happy taste-buds. I liked both, and the sweet did have a different flavour (more intense, as well as more sweet).
In the morning, I had to leave my guests early because of an 8:30 meeting, so we had an hour of chitchat while I was becoming caffinated. Hopefully I didn't do to many dopey things. I remember trying to convince them to take leftovers with them, even though they were going to try and get sushi on the way (in Niagara Falls; I had even helped them plan that the night before. Duh.)
The visit was great, if too short. I keep thinking they should meet other friends of dan's and mine; at minimum, I'm trying to convince Sadelle to get herself an LJ-name so she can follow fine folks on my friends-list.
A funny moment; after settling in, they said, "Wow, you read Bitch Magazine? How cool." They started telling me they had discovered it about a year ago and I said, "Um, I know, dan and I told you about it last summer." Heh.
I got a few photos of them, with Rover, which I hope to post tonight.
There are other things I was going to post, but I'll do that tonight, since I've stretched my lunch break as it is. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
elbie_at_trig and I went for mulligatawny and fried dumplings off-campus, and talked about graphic novels, assimilation in Canada vs. US, grad school, and the fact that he's now a truncle (a word I just coined; he doesn't expect to ever become a quadruncle, even though I think that makes a better word).
The theme of their visit was quite possibly "Mango." We went out to a chinese restaurant within walking distance (review to follow, for locals). One of the dishes we got was chicken with mango; surprisingly delicately flavoured (not one-dimensional mango or very sweet at all). It came with five large mango halves (thirds, more likely) with lots of good stuff piled on top with a mango sauce. Yum.
Sadelle and Ann brought two mangos from Kensington Market which we had yesterday morning with breakfast; a "Sweet Mango" and a regular mango for taste comparison. Mmm. Happy taste-buds. I liked both, and the sweet did have a different flavour (more intense, as well as more sweet).
In the morning, I had to leave my guests early because of an 8:30 meeting, so we had an hour of chitchat while I was becoming caffinated. Hopefully I didn't do to many dopey things. I remember trying to convince them to take leftovers with them, even though they were going to try and get sushi on the way (in Niagara Falls; I had even helped them plan that the night before. Duh.)
The visit was great, if too short. I keep thinking they should meet other friends of dan's and mine; at minimum, I'm trying to convince Sadelle to get herself an LJ-name so she can follow fine folks on my friends-list.
A funny moment; after settling in, they said, "Wow, you read Bitch Magazine? How cool." They started telling me they had discovered it about a year ago and I said, "Um, I know, dan and I told you about it last summer." Heh.
I got a few photos of them, with Rover, which I hope to post tonight.
There are other things I was going to post, but I'll do that tonight, since I've stretched my lunch break as it is. (
elbie_at_trig and I went for mulligatawny and fried dumplings off-campus, and talked about graphic novels, assimilation in Canada vs. US, grad school, and the fact that he's now a truncle (a word I just coined; he doesn't expect to ever become a quadruncle, even though I think that makes a better word).
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Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2006 07:53 pm (UTC)philosobincle
philosotruncle
philosoquadruncle
I think if anyone ever reaches that last level, a plaque must be immediately commissioned. Perhaps a statue of the person mounted.
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Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:56 pm (UTC)"philosobincle", I assume, would be in contrast with "biobincle"?
Somehow I'm further tempted to come up with a notation for people who are both bio- and philoso- uncles:
1b,2p-ncle
*starts humming "We are Family"...*
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Date: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:33 am (UTC)Now I want a philosophew. Or two.
(Though one nephew is a handful.)
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Date: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:47 pm (UTC)Hm, by my guess (dr.tectonic to ng_nighthawk's) you are a philosophew, though I may have over- guessed. Since I haven't actually heard the definition of philosophew.
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Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:44 pm (UTC)D'oh! (Mind you, the link from the "subscribe" text itself does lead to the new site)
our visit and a couple of corrections
Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:57 pm (UTC)Yes, it was a great, but way too short visit! We had an awesome time, and were thoroughly enchanted by Rover. Thanks for dinner again, btw! We've been talking up that dinner since we got back. Our local Chinese restaurant can't hold a candle to that one!
We ended up leaving round 9:15 ish. Rover looked sad. No troubles finding the way to Niagara. When we got down there we found an inn that offered $5 parking and it was right across the street from the sushi restaurant on Victoria. That said, we never did do lunch, coz when we walked down to see the falls, Ann talked me into taking the Maid of the Mist boat ride, as the lines were very short. First time doing that for me.. and Ann's first time ever at the falls. We got nice and soaked on the boat, which was great in the heat of the day. Then we just had an ice cream and pretty much drove straight shot home. I'll post a pic on the blog soon. And yeah.. re LJ.. I just have to figure out how to manage that, as I have 3 blogs already!
Re: our visit and a couple of corrections
Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:05 pm (UTC)Ann's work didn't have anything to do with paying for this trip (we wish!). Oh.. and I (Sadelle) am not involved in the high school GSA, other than moral support. Ann is a co-advisor to the group, but the biggest kudos go to the high school German teacher, Anja, who is the main advisor and brainchild behind this version of the GSA. She rocks!
Sadelle
Re: our visit and a couple of corrections
Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:18 pm (UTC)Re: our visit and a couple of corrections
Date: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:34 am (UTC)ping!
Date: Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:35 pm (UTC)Oh.. and we added not only you and D to our respective Friends list.. but we found Rover's page too. ;-)
Sadelle
Re: ping!
Date: Thursday, 22 June 2006 01:13 pm (UTC)I'm friends-listing you two so you might see a few more posts from me. A few, though, since I don't lock many posts...