holiday update numéro un: HOME AT LAST

yesssssss, it's true, I am home! holla!!! let's resume the past couple of days :

thursday : a full day of review of Español 301, a.k.a. Spanish... joy joy joy. fun day that was. I don't know if I did anything interesting that day... oh well! it's over now.

friday : woke up at 6:30, just to study, what a good boy I am. made it through my oral and written exam - my written exam I kind of didn't care about, I just wanted to be DONE. YEAH. and now I am! friday afternoon was the gym, and then chilling until I went to dinner with my friend Sana. lovely. I then purchased some wine, and in a bit I was down on Queen's Quay right in downtown Toronto, in front of Lake Ontario at my friend Ashley Michaud's condo. good tiiimes... except for when I dropped my wine bottle like a tool - oh well!!! then we went to "Privelege" for Fitchin' Friday, it was very fun. this girl from my work got really sick, so I took care of her, she looked like she was going to the Oscars, sooo beautiful. but right you are, then I chilled at the club afterwards, it was fun. went to bed laaaaaaate.

saturday: woke up and packed my bags in time for noon, just as I had planned. took a taxi to Ashley Poitevin's charming apartment, and met her friend Laura. so nice, we went to Yorkville for the day, going on a photographic adventure as we went. it was really a fun time; got an amazing sandwich from "Boulangerie de Montréal," this classy bakery place, saw the burnt-down Sassafraz, went to american apparel and H&M, saw some cracked-up shit from "The Bay," so on and so forth. GREAT afternoon. then at 6:30 took the taxi, to the shuttle, to the airport, which then let to home. kind of a long flight, but the people behind me were from Korea and had been flying/transferring for 22 hours. but yeah, I landed at 12:30AM... which brings us to

sunday: today I : -was woken up early by a very excited little brother
-went to St. Rose church, as per Sunday morning tradition
-picked out the family tree @ the Slave Patch, and talked to my awesome ex-manager Neil, such a good guy
-wrapped a ton of presents all afternoon
-celebrated my mom's (belated-by-one-day) 48th birthday with my mémère, who made the best beef stew of my life, SO ACADIAN! THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE! and my mom made meat pie as well - think the Acadian version of Québec's "tourtière," enjoyed by my family with molasses... it's holiday tradish.
-decorated the tree with Ben
-went out to see "Casino Royale" with mare, leesh and jim - GOOD MOVIE, GOOD TIMES. aka, HOT TIMES.

and now I am exhausted, and going to bed, and sleeping in forever. and re-starting my nazi workout regime in the morning. HOLLA.

yours,
Joel

P.S. Eva Green = Hollywood's new hottie.