So today marks the end of my first week at my new job. I love it here: great team, interesting work, lots to learn. And boy oh boy do I love the neighbourhood!
If you don’t already know, I’m a huge foodie, and being around this plethora of good eats is starting to make my wallet hurt. I’ve already been back to my old haunt, La Boulangerie Parisienne, twice in the past ten days. Guess I’ve been craving their chicken paninis ever since their place near Sinclair Centre closed its doors. Unrelated to work lunches, we got the chance to check out Samba for Leanne’s big 2-5. How can you say no to all-you-can-eat meat?! 14 different meats for as long as you can take. Especially with a Brazilian flair and Carnavalesque dancers to entertain you all night. It was meatily delicious.
Today’s random epiphany — Now that we both work downtown, Kurt and I take the bus to work, occasionally grab lunch together, wait for each other to commute back on the same bus, and then spend the rest of our free time together.
This morning, however, Kurt was running late, so I hopped on the Skytrain for the first time. Got accosted by a Metro paperboy so grabbed a copy to look at on the train. As I was leaving the station, got accosted again, this time by the CBC. Damn. So I got the 3rd degree about whether I supported papers like the Metro (a free “headlines” tabloid) and whether I thought it competed unfairly with normal dailies. They say that they’ll use the footage on tonight’s news. If you’re watching, let me know if you see anything. I’d rather not face the possibility of looking the fool on TV myself!