Blurred Line

It's a beautiful warm, sunny summer's day outside. Seems like everyone's in a good mood, but how couldn't you be after your home team's won a playoff series and the city is just brimming with attractive girls flaunting their scanty summer clothes (yes, clearly I haven't had a date in a while...what's it to you?). Anyway, I headed out early this afternoon to hand in my Medieval Literature exam (another reason to be in a good mood). The prof gave me back my essays from the class (and A and a B, so yet another reason for a good mood). I'd taken a large haul of books down to a used book store in the market (that's Ottawa downtown recreation district, I guess you'd call it - it's where all the restaurants, pubs and nightclubs are). Anyway, they took all of them, which cleared up some bookshelf space for me and gave me enough cash to buy three hardcovers. I came home with copies of:

The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen. I know there's a blogger who's mentioned it several times, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was.
Excessive Joy Injures the Heart - Elisabeth Harvor. I read an incredible short story by Harvor last semester in one of my classes, so I had to grab a copy of her first novel when I saw it on the shelf.
Brahma's Dream - Shree Ghatage. I always make a point of picking up a novel I've never heard of when I go into a used bookstore. I'm pretty sure it's good karma, somehow.

Anyway, after the trip to the bookstore, it was so nice out that I decided I didn't want to go home quite yet. So, I bummed around in the Market for a while and ate lunch at Milano's (a giant slice of Ottawa's best pizza, a Caesar salad and a bottle of water for $5). So, I'm sitting on the patio finishing off my salad when a CTV (that's one of the national channels here in Canada) reporter and his cameraman lean over the railing and ask me if they can ask a question. In the good mood that I am, I tell them to go ahead. The question: Would you be in favour of a city-wide ban of trans fats? Seriously? That's ridiculous. If we let the city's government start making stupid decisions like that, they might start doing really stupid things, like setting up video cameras that scold people or robotic falcons that scare away pigeons. Anyhow, I'm hoping it doesn't get on the news tonight, because I'm pretty sure that although I was well-spoken, I was speaking while I still had a bunch of croutons in my mouth. Not sexy.

Hopefully the rest of the day will be as enjoyable.


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