Canada

I just put a photo album of my bus trip across Canada onto my Facebook. I've filled it with anecdotes and random chatter, so check it out.

I started in Toronto and arrived three days later in Vancouver at about 5 in the morning. I sat beside two guys, both of whom were in bands, and one girl who got on at Moosejaw and promptly changed seats when the bus started moving. It's quite possible I smelled bad by that point.

The first guy, whom I will call The Drummer because I can't remember his actual name, got on in Sudbury. I had been supposed to get off the bus and stay with my friend Evan (who moved there for god knows what reason) for a night, but the ticket's fine print said that it was not to be, so we scrambled out for dinner and then I got right back on and this drummer sat beside me. He was going to Edmonton, we parted ways in Winnipeg I think. For the life of me I can't remember his name. He was from Ottawa, and was moving to the prairies to do something with advertising. He was making good money too, but you'd have to be to move out to Edmonton. OH! POW! Anyway, The Drummer had some bands lined up that he was going to audition for in his new home town.

The second guy, Colvin, was in an actual band, The Hollow. Check out his awesome leather pants. And he was the shiest person ever too, very nice and down to earth and not at all, how you say, EMO. He'd been living in Toronto for the last few years after graduating with a music degree (incidentally, he'd spent some time in Edmonton I think) but had been in small-town Alberta visiting his parents. He said he also played with a pop singer named FiFi Dalore (NB: transliterations are approximate at best) but for the life of me I cannot find this person on the internet so I can only surmise that he was lying. My second best source for music, my sister, also had not heard of her. But apparently they're touring around Europe shortly. Who knows.

Colvin got off in Calgary to catch a plane back to Toronto, and I continued on my way. We hit the rockies in the early afternoon, and I went a bit camera happy.





Anyway, with very little room left on my camera I arrived in Vancouver and settled in on Colleen's basement apartment's living room's futon. I did some random stuff such as banking, changing money into Yen, watching Madison's Panic jam outside the SUB, shopping for お土産 souvenirs for my host family and generally carousing about. I finally got to go to Dharma Kitchen (oh-em-gee so good) and I saw my friend Tony and randomly bumped into Armand and picked up a story at The Ubyssey that I have not yet typed up because my laptop is caput (sorry Colleen and Carolynne), and I generally made myself a nuisance over at Staples because they wouldn't talk to me about recyclable pens.

Yes, my story is about recyclable pens. It will be coming soon, I promise. If I get it done today like I'm intending, and the Ubyssey website ever gets constructed, I will link you.

And that's enough for now I think. This is Colleen and Colleen's angelic aura :)