Blue Jays

Jack and I just watched the “Toronto Blue Jays”:http://www.bluejays.com win over the New York Yankees 8 to 1. Toronto’s pitcher creamed the Yankees. Jack’s happiness at the Toronto win was tempered by the fact that the Yankees’ relief pitcher was one of his in the fantasy baseball league in which he plays.

Time Warp

In a Globe and Mail article called “Genre in a Time Warp”:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030901/SCIFI/TPEntertainment/TopStories , Hal Niedzviecki discussions his impressions of current science fiction fandom.

Waterfront

I walked down to the waterfront this morning, and drank my first cup of coffee overlooking Lake Ontario. I’ve been successful in staying on Mountain Daylight Time, keeping my bedtime at eleven or twelve o’clock, which works well for a science fiction convention. As a result, I have been getting out of the hotel room at what seems a shockingly late time of the morning for me.
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Torcon

I met “Anita Rowling”:http://www.anitarowland.com/ this morning. She was walking out of the Internet Lounge as I walked in and I recognized her from her weblog photo. We had coffee and compared fan histories, and talked about weblogging and the fact that both our husbands are named Jack.
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Underground

I actually had a chance to walk around Toronto this afternoon, instead of just between the hotel and the convention center. I was desperate to find some necessities that had not found their way into my luggage, but was unable to find a drug store anywhere. I finally asked a hot dog vendor, and she replied incomprehensibly and pointed me toward a stairway underneath the tall buildings. This led to a maze of passages lined with stores, and I finally found a drug store several blocks along. Almost all the retail in this area seems to be underground.

Canada is not the USA

As I was walking down Front Street to the hotel yesterday, I noticed a woman interviewing a man in front of a camera on the other side of the street. From the back, it didn’t look like she was wearing anything above the waist. After I passed by, I looked quickly over my shoulder. She WASN’T wearing anything above the waist. Even odder, except for similar quick check by other passers-by, no one seemed to pay much attention.

Talking to Canadians, I discovered that a few years ago, it was decided that since it is okay for males to go topless, it should be okay for females to go topless.