December 25th, 2004 Comments Off
- Low-key Christmas
- In the morning I ate a curious Romanian item for breakfast. It was some type of meat, maybe pork, encased in cold clear gelatin. It didn’t taste bad but it was kind of weird. Cornelius hand fed his son Bogdan even though he’s pretty old. He said, “He’s my baby!” Violetta asked if it bothered me that they were speaking in Spanish and Romanian, which I thought was sweet.
- Didn’t do much throughout the day. Mostly some reading. I think I watched some Dave Chappelle. It didn’t seem as funny as I had remembered it being but he’s still a genius.
- Gothic Christmas
- In the evening my sister took me to the last Absinthe night at the Vatikan. Before going to the club we drove around a bit and I saw a bunch of glitzy stores, the big university in Toronto, and the hospital that Vlad works at. It didn’t really look like any city I’d been in before. The closest analogy was maybe the magnificent mile in Chicago.
- There weren’t that many people at the club but it was still fun and I got to dance. One of the weird things was that it was all ages so there were some really young kids there. My sister had three glasses of absinthe but it didn’t make her see anything.
- I practiced talking to strangers and it went quite well. My trick is to talk to people who are alone (later I realized/remembered that this is also what Mormons do). The girl I talked to, Jen, ended up being from Chicago where she is a midwife and ironically is a regular at Neo. She was on her way to a spa further north and had stopped by the club on the way there.
- My sister left for a while to get some food then came back to pick me up and invited Jen back to the house with us. We talked some more and she told me that she had planned on crashing wherever she could for the night rather than pay to stay at a hotel for a few hours so she just stayed the night.