A Totally Weird Sensation

I was just brushing my teeth, and I experienced something I'd never experienced before - toothpaste in the eye! Seriously! It was some kind of a weird flick-back thing. But what a weird sensation. Cool, fresh, alive! Now, I wouldn't suggest you go rubbing toothpaste in your eyes, but thought I ought to report this finding to the world. Who knew??

Trust and the City

A very cool thing happened to me yesterday. I went to buy some bananas at the store down the street, but lo and behold, when I opened my wallet I only had American money. The girl didn't know how to deal with foreign currency, so after staring at each other for a few seconds, she said to just take them and pay her next time. Really?? How cool. In Toronto! The only other time I'd experienced that was on a small island in Belize when I ordered an ice cream but realized I didn't have money in my bathing suit. So I finally feel part of the neighbourhood after 8 years - just in time to move! Anyway, it gave me a warm feeling to be trusted like that in the big city. Stupid girl. That's the last she'll see of that $1.32!!!

Just kidding.

Squirrel Documentary

Tonight I met a woman who's making a documentary about her pet squirrel. She found the baby squirrel when it could fit in the palm of her hand - it was chasing after a boy with a prosthetic leg who was collecting pledges for the Terry Fox run (no joke!). She found it at a time when she was contemplating suicide. This squirrel gave her a reason to live. She nurtured it as its mother. But after a few months it was getting restless indoors, so she let it go outside. It kept having longer intervals before it would return home, then one day the squirrel just didn't come home. So the woman killed herself...No, stupid, then how would she be telling me the story?!...Anyway, it was the most intense feeling of love and worth that she's ever felt. And since she's a filmmaker, she'd shot footage of the whole thing - she even has some footage of the squirrel jumping on her head in the middle of meditation (hers, not the squirrel's). So she's cutting a documentary of the entire story. So what is stranger, truth or fiction?