everything besides school in the last 2 weeks
let's have some fun because I have nothing else to talk about
Guess I’ll tell you a little bit about the last few weeks just because. Time to yap, as the kids like to say.
Because I try to keep these posts to around 1,000 words for both your sake and mine, we are going to split this into two parts. Today we will be discussing all the fun miscellaneous stuff. On Friday, if I have time, I will go long on my third year in uni and my lack of friends. Your fave topic.
I believe we left off around reading week which was a few weeks ago.
Concerts!
Starting this off with some incredibly good news. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE ARE GOING BACK ON TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am incredibly excited to see them in Toronto with two of my closest friends next August. Even in the bleachers. That band, as you may know from that one time I wrote about them, put on quite the show.
I have been splurging so hard on concert tickets with whatever money I have left these days. I’m seeing this great hardcore band called Gouge Away at the Velvet in February, then a band I’ve loved for a long time called Citizen in March, MJ Lenderman in May at the Danforth, and the Weather Station in June. Incredibly excited for all of that. 2025 is going to be the greatest year of my life and also I am broke as hell now.
I can’t recall—did I tell you I got Oasis tickets awhile back?! I have no idea how. I somehow ended up with a presale code and then got through the queue no problem while I was in the middle of class. It’s gonna be my dad’s Christmas present. I hope he flips out. I couldn’t get Coldplay tickets so Liam and Noel were the next best option.
Also got a general admission ticket to Inhaler next year so I can jump around with all the hyperventilating girls! This is my third attempt at seeing them live. I had tickets to their last two Toronto stops and I couldn’t go to either. So hopefully third time’s the charm. I don’t even like their music all that much, I mostly just find their singer ridiculously hot.
Sports!
Did you SEE that Bills-Chiefs game?! I am a Bills fan by default given my proximity to Buffalo but of course I have a soft spot for the Chiefs because of Travis Kelce (also Patrick Mahomes, because I enjoy watching greatness unfold before my eyes). But Josh Allen. My god. This was a career-defining play. Knocking off the undefeated Chiefs in impressive fashion. They might go all the way.
LCBO!
I got an LCBO holiday booklet in the mail on election day (for non-Ontarian readers, that’s the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. They sell beer and stuff. Government enterprise. I don’t think y’all have those kinds of things in the States. Unless….maybe the Beer Store? Costco?) LCBO ssent over their annual holiday flyer package thing, like they do for every other Ontario household. And so while I grew increasingly stressed out watching Jake Tapper talk about swing states, I was also oohing and ahhing at page after page of $22 CAD bottles of Prosecco, and I don’t even know what Prosecco is.
No idea why I feel the need to mention this to you. I just thought it was funny.
I’m an advisor now!
The University of Toronto (where I “study”!) is a humungous institution full of fancy people with fancy titles. Recently I learned that there is someone (or maybe multiple people, I have no idea) called a Vice-Provost (no idea what that is) who has a committee where they take feedback from all sorts of students, undergrad and graduate, on various UofT matters. I got an email about it so I filled out the application form half-asleep, and then a few weeks later they invited me to be a part of it! So now I am a member of the *deep breath* Vice-Provost Strategic Enrolment Management Student Advisory Group! You bet I’ve already updated my LinkedIn.
They hold meetings a few times a year and the first one was last week inside one of the boardrooms in Simcoe Hall:
I did not take this photo but when I tell you what a kickass room this was.
Oh, and here’s the kicker: THEY GAVE US ALL NAMEPLATES WHEN WE WALKED IN!!
When I was a kid I thought this sorta thing was the coolest thing ever. It made me feel so official and profesh even though I’m the total opposite. Sometimes it’s the little things.
I ran a 5k!
In Toronto we’re lucky because we are home to the oldest Santa Claus parade on the friggin planet, which has been running for 120 years. Perhaps it’s not as big or as Broadway-infused as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, but whatever. Very lucky to have it take place in my backyard. I used to go every year with my family when I was little.
Before the parade starts they host a 5k run along the parade route in the downtown core, and so my mom suggested we sign up, and so I reluctantly did. Glad it’s over. Every kilometre was torture. When I had surgery in June I spent literally the entire month rotting in bed so in July I started doing laps and stuff on a local high school track. Not that I have ever enjoyed it.
The views along the route were gorgeous, though. It was cool to run right down St. George and Sussex, an intersection I have crossed a million times, along with two thousand other runners. We got a really hearty brunch at a spot in the West End afterward. I love this city to shreds.
More soon. Take care of yourselves. I’m seeing a play tonight! In the Distillery District! I’m so excited. Y’all know I love drama.