yayay back in my favourite city with my friends woohoo! missed it here so much it's crazy waah. so much walking around in the cold it's been great. weird walking past my old apartments. been eating the foods i've missed so much hhhhh such good cafes. your sandwich experience will always be inferior to mine until you have had the poulet panko from ***** ****. sorry. finally went to the club and it was all i wanted it to be haha. had a great time ice skating, got an amazing shirt from a thrift store (speedo shirt from 1995) and also a really cool long, structured black skirt. i don't think i've worn a skirt since probably kindergarten and i usually hate the very idea of them, but this one spoke to me... it seems to be from a german brand and i was desperately trying to use the scraps of internet my phone could latch on to at the vintage place to look up EU to US sizing and was amazed to find that it was my exact size. i need to fix up one button, but other than that it fits perfectly.
by some miracle, my time here coincided with a showing of The Fall (2006) at a theater i've been wanting to go to for years! it was so amazing to finally see it on the big screen and in its beautiful 4K glory. I also noticed a tiny scene was added to the restored version (like 10 seconds long) that isn't in the version i've watched a few times online. my friend last minute bought a ticket too and she loveddd it. she says its a top 10 film and we talked about it the whole walk back to her apartment. we started chatting with the other last person to leave the theater (we watched untill the end of the credits) about just how amazing it is. I was worried about "the mortifying ideal of being known" with her seeing my favourite movie, but i guess it all worked out, so yay!
went out yesterday to get groceries for our Lunar New Year dinner tonight (it's a day early but alas people are beholden to the school/work schedule and it worked better). going to make stir fried rice cakes. i like to make it other times of the year but i usually have it w/ eggplant and mushrooms, but this time it's just bok choy, scallions, mushrooms, and bean sprouts. on the way back, i trecked through the deep snow to get to a picnic table in the middle of the park and listed to Jeff Buckley's Grace album. truly a perfect experience. the sun starting to go down, lightly snowing, wind whipping up little snow devils (idk if that's what you would call them. dust devils but with the loose powdered snow on the ground), and watching the cross on the mountain.
being back here has kind of solidified that i don't know if i can live somewhere long-term that doesnt get snow. also just like,, i miss living in an actual big and cool city. i need to live in australia for at least one more year, both to finish my degree and also so that if i have kids and my partner isn't australian, i will be able to pass my citizenship on to them, but like,,, i feel like maybe i should be thinking about living in canada longterm. rough it out in alberta or saskatchewan for a few years to earn my little resident points or whatever and then move east... i just need to learn french for realzies. sad!