The great Canadian get-together
Apr. 9th, 2005 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
velvetpageI wish I could say the evening had been an unqualified success, but I really can't. There were good things, and there were things to improve for next time, and I'm going to document both as best I can.
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anguine, but that will be rectified next time. mizheekay would have been a bit intimidating, I think, if I hadn't been reading her lj and therefore been aware of a few things. Chalk one up for lj, there. We had some time to chat - a couple teacher anecdotes, some personal history stuff, and the usual first-meeting chitchat. That was nice. In a similar vein, triatic and I hit it off well. I'm looking forward to getting to know them better.
On the downsides were items like location and planning. Due to a comedy of errors and no one being really aware of all the details, no one really realized exactly how far from Ad Astra the new location was. In a similar vein, it might have been quicker forsassy_fae and I to take the GO into Mississauga and take transit from there, rather than going all the way to Union and then back west along Bloor. It was nearly eight o'clock by the time we got there, and most others had been there forty-five minutes by that time. So when people started preparing to leave by ten, I was a bit nonplussed. I felt like I was just getting going. Hopefully next time we can find a location convenient for TTC people AND those in Brampton to make it to conveniently. Also, no one apparently realized how many people were coming - so no one called ahead. That meant that for the first half hour after sassy_fae and I arrived, we were moving tables and seats in an effort to be all together in our own party. The pub itself was excellent, and the food was wonderful and reasonably priced.
That's the run-down. Overall, I had a good time, and my impression was that others did too, for the most part. It was a shamemelskunk and her husband couldn't stay longer, though.
Baby's up, and I have to get ready for my aunt to arrive in two hours. I wonder if I can squeeze in a workout, here? I think I'm going to try, but if I do it has to be soon. TTYL, lj, and I plan to take the digital camera with me when we go fabric shopping so I can show the costume/crafty people on my list the wonders of Ottawa STreet.
anguine, but that will be rectified next time. mizheekay would have been a bit intimidating, I think, if I hadn't been reading her lj and therefore been aware of a few things. Chalk one up for lj, there. We had some time to chat - a couple teacher anecdotes, some personal history stuff, and the usual first-meeting chitchat. That was nice. In a similar vein, triatic and I hit it off well. I'm looking forward to getting to know them better.On the downsides were items like location and planning. Due to a comedy of errors and no one being really aware of all the details, no one really realized exactly how far from Ad Astra the new location was. In a similar vein, it might have been quicker for
sassy_fae and I to take the GO into Mississauga and take transit from there, rather than going all the way to Union and then back west along Bloor. It was nearly eight o'clock by the time we got there, and most others had been there forty-five minutes by that time. So when people started preparing to leave by ten, I was a bit nonplussed. I felt like I was just getting going. Hopefully next time we can find a location convenient for TTC people AND those in Brampton to make it to conveniently. Also, no one apparently realized how many people were coming - so no one called ahead. That meant that for the first half hour after sassy_fae and I arrived, we were moving tables and seats in an effort to be all together in our own party. The pub itself was excellent, and the food was wonderful and reasonably priced. That's the run-down. Overall, I had a good time, and my impression was that others did too, for the most part. It was a shame
melskunk and her husband couldn't stay longer, though.Baby's up, and I have to get ready for my aunt to arrive in two hours. I wonder if I can squeeze in a workout, here? I think I'm going to try, but if I do it has to be soon. TTYL, lj, and I plan to take the digital camera with me when we go fabric shopping so I can show the costume/crafty people on my list the wonders of Ottawa STreet.