Zoo Day

This was sort of like the last weekend of summer, even though last weekend was the actual last weekend of summer.
Yesterday we finally went to the zoo, which I’ve been talking about for ages. Because of some unclear statements on the zoo website, we wound up riding every train line in the city, including the Scarborough RT. It took us two hours to get there. But it was worth it.
My surprise favourite (besides the usual elephants, lions roaring, gorillas, hippopotomi, etc.) was definitely the Japanese macaques. They are the awesomest, laziest monkeys ever. I only wish my camera batteries hadn’t given out. Then I would have had shoddy versions of this:

The other awesome part is that the Toronto Zoo lets you walk right through the wallabee/emu enclosure. There are no actual boundaries between you and the wallabees and emus (emu?), just a path.
Then we listened to Alex’s iPod and kissed on the subway platform and ate falafels and watched Shock Corridor and just trust me it was a good day.

Tragedy

However, it was also a day marked by loss. The strap on my beloved Audrey Hepburn purse, the one which caused strangers everywhere to remark “I like your purse!” thereby making me a vanguard of purse style, broke. The breakage of the strap has made me see that it can no longer handle my daily purse needs. (The added weight of the cellphone seems to have done it in.)
So, though I would like to fix Audrey up nice, maybe for special occasions, my day-to-day purse situation calls for something larger and sturdier. Audrey was my signature purse. How can it ever be the same?

Epilogue, Next Week

Today I didn’t do much except sleep in later than planned, read some chapters, do something vaguely like research, realise I have lots more research to do than I thought, and buy Tegan and Sara’s new album. I was going to go see them tomorrow but the show’s sold out and I have too much homework to line up outside and hope for no shows and/or argue with scalpers. This is a shame because I think this might be their best album yet!

This coming week: the usual one-two punch of school and work, plus presentation in my American Independent Cinema seminar, plus academic conference on French Film in the 1930s, plus Rilo Kiley show.