Remember the day you graduated to unusual from strange.

2005-07-14 at 1:11 p.m.

It is currently 35 degrees celcius in the apartment. That converts to 95 fahrenheit. It is 90 degrees in New Orleans. Therefore, it is hotter inside my apartment in Canada then it is outdoors in New Orleans.

It's too hot to do anything except for sit in front of a fan with a frozen water bottle on you and watch CNN. I'm now fully up to date on current affairs.

It's been this hot since the beginning of the week and is expected to continue throughout next week. So I bought an air conditioner. I actually had my mom buy it since it cost roughly $600. This has ended my 21 year run of being relatively debt free. But not dying of heat stroke is worth $600, I think.

Josh Ritter is tomorrow in Ottawa! It will be too hot for him to wear his customary suit so I hope we get to see him in normal clothes. I'm excited to see him with his band, who are so delightfully eastern-European looking.

Seen here holding a very portly radio man.

I found an apartment! It's above the Annex and Yorkville. This equals nice neighbourhood. No drug-dealers, police officer-shooters, pit bull owners, floosies, Turkish men who stare freely at your breasts, and just the lack of unsavoury people in general.

The lobby has a fireplace and leather couches and marble tables. It's so very Italian-esque. I get my own little mail box and I can buzz people in. There's an elevator and a garbage shute (!!).

It's only a bachelor and a small one at that but there's a seperate kitchen with enough space for a dining table and a little nook that serves as kind of an extra room so it doesn't fell like ahhh, I'm living in a dorm room. Also, I'm on the top floor which completely eliminates the possibility of a repeat of the crack-whores who like to come in at four in the morning experience.

It's so small that I was thinking of getting a twin size bed but the more I thought about it the more depressing sleeping in a twin-sized bed sounded. So now my bed will take up about half the room but at least I won't feel pathetic.

Kim's going to Oshawa and will no doubt find an apartment twice the size for the same price. I'll be jealous but will be living in Toronto with all the concerts making her equally jealous.

I also got my driving liscence. In Canada you have to wait five years and take three tests before you are fully liscenced. My woman tester didn't even make me parallel park. Thank god. She made me back in to a parking spot when I returned to the DMV though. That is slightly evil I thought. Have you ever tried backing a Crown Victoria into a parking spot and actually making it between the lines? It's nearly impossible.

Me and Kim went to see Christine Fellows and John K. Samson of the Weakerthans a few weeks ago. They're married which has ended all possible hope for Kim marrying her skinny little dream man. Since then I've developed a strange attachment to Christine Fellow's music. She's basically a female version of John K. so I would have expected Kim to like her a lot more than I do, but no. And then you have to wonder if songs like her 'We Two' is the same event as the Weakerthans' 'Hospital Vespers'. Which by the way is probably my favourite Weakerthans song and is one out of two that mentions Edward Hopper. Who has two songs about Edward Hopper other than the Weakerthans? Probably no one.

speaking at length + speaking in lines