i think i can already feel the humidity

the thing that i hate (love?) about spring is that it always makes me want to shirk all my (rather minimal) commitments. there is nothing that i would rather be doing right now that simply wandering about, sun on my face, carrying some kind of coffee/tea, hand in hand with jarrod (he's the only who will hold hands with me in public), wasting the day away in nothing productive, but still very enjoyable, wandering. i think i could even walk around with my coat unbuttoned today. there might even have been a bit of smog around the C.N. Tower. oh, toronto, how i love thee.

but this is what i will really do today: finish my lit review for my research methods proposal and finish entering information into our group database project. fortunately, the inforum provides the time for me to do so. if i was at home, my day would be this: watching last week's Lost and The Amazing Race and reading gossip blogs. after my walk outside of course.

julia may or may not still be at my house. she ended up having a rather rough go of it. after tasha's, i had fully planned on heading home to relax, preferably to watch Braveheart. however, jeff was anxious to go out with a new lady who had caught his fancy, and coerced julia and i into heading to O'Grady's for a few games of pool. turned out to be a good time: the bar was busy, but not too busy, the company was good, and, at the end of the evening, the bar tender offered drinks to anyone who could name the music he was playing.

as i write this, i am hoping that Tasha is not annoyed that i ended up going out last night: it was truly unplanned and, for better or worse, i think, a sisterly duty. see, yesterday, i elected to head home rather than attempt a second movie (Jurassic Park II...we had already watched the first one) because i really was tired, and so, going out seems to be in direct contradiction to why i went home. i have always lived by the rule that you don't hold out for a "better offer" when it comes to your social calendar (there is nothing more damaging to a friendship than being told you are second choice) and i would hate to think that she would think this is what i had done. in conclusion, i feel like a big jerk. hopefully, tasha managed to get some serious crafting time in and won't really care about this.

on friday, a whole whack of us headed over to jeff's hockey game. although not the original plan for the evening, i do believe hockey was a hit. it is always great to go to hockey games with people who have not grown up with hockey the way i have: you definitly see things with a new perspective. the evening was bittersweet, as it was probably the last time i would get to see jeff playing in the OHL. which means, his hockey career is drawing to a close. it certainly is the end of an era. the score of the game was 6-5 for the colts, however, the real score was three free t-shirts, a soft pretzel, two hot chocolates, one major fight, too many penalties, a few annoying kids and a bunch of library students yelling at a sporting event. highly successful in my opinion.