Aug30
Sitting in jack astors have the best time ever with my bestest girls!!! I mean of course Schmalex and Kinamalina. We are eating dessert I of course am having a macadamian sundae , schmal is havin a fondu of awesome and kinamalina to no fault of her own is having a fondu as well… Slightly less awesome(cuz nothing is awesomer than anything alex will eat) but cool all the same. Justin, Lisa and hobo are comming but we don’t really care because the fantasmal ppl are here already. So I just finished describing the sexy scene of true blood between Eric and Talbot it was sweet and Eric is sexy… So much so that the crackberry I am now typing on is named after this stunningly sexy beast of an actor.<3.. Anywho gotta go XOXO Gossip Girl 
The other day a friend had come over to spend the day studying at my place, and after a very intense afternoon of doing readings we decided it was high time for some fresh air. The area around downtown Ottawa is just gorgeous, if you’ve never been, and it’s fairly easy to start taking a walk and just get lost in the beautiful places the path can take you.
I live near the Rideau Canal, so quite often at any given time of year, I find myself walking along it. In some ways it’s more convenient than taking transit. It cuts straight through from near where I live, all the way to campus and then further on to the downtown core. I’ve got quite a few memories of us slipping and sliding all the way home on the iced over canal in winter, just for fun.
Anyways, so I’ve been here for my entire undergraduate degree (this will be my 4th year), and I’ve taken numerous walks around the city starting at that point.
So imagine my surprise when we got to the canal and my friend stops just before we turned right, and takes a good look on either side of the bridge and suddenly asks, “Have you ever been walking the other way?”.
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