etc.

Anyone interested in buying a house in Toronto over the next year really needs to talk to me. If you have about three weekday evening or weekend morning hours to spare, I have a workshop for you that will fill in all the information cracks and magically transform you into an informed house shopper. I know, amazing. The workshop is lead by a husband and wife team of real estate agents and we went in fully expecting the tough sell, but they kept it all very agent-unspecific (with the occasional self-reference, but what can you expect, they have to push for some return from the day to cover the water and cookies they generously provided). Have a look at their slightly tacky but quite informative website, and take the three hours to educate yourself.

I don’t think I vented sufficiently about this when it happened, but I’m still bitter that I missed Noam Chomsky speak for the fourth time in my life a few weeks ago. The day the tickets were available for pick-up, I made it to the Student Centre nice and early, only to find a line-up of about 400 people long, for 300 tickets. Ditto for the 12pm and 3pm releases. Understandably, a person either needs to have many free hours of their life and no fulltime job OR a serious in with a Chomsky goupie (they do exist) to get into a lecture by this guy. Sadly, I satisfy neither condition.