Casuistry in Canada: Toronto and Montreal in September

Now to figure out what to do.

This should give you some decent info about what's going on.

This thread is now being repurposed into the thread where I talk about how I'm moving to Toronto to go to grad school in the fall.

Mission one: Figure out housing.

Congratulations! What's the program?

Fantastic news! I add my congratulations!

Congratulations!

Mission one. Parameter A. distance (by steps or by miles)

Yay the Casuistry! Survive grad life. (Seriously.)

U of T, Centre (I guess I'm gonna have to get used to that spelling) for Mediev@l Studies, to focus on Medeival Latin. A one-year M.A. program... for now.

MOST PRACTICAL DEGREE EVER!

why u leave me

was i so cruel

Oh go to LA already.

on a trail of tears, maybe

hey, that's good news! Sean is coming back to us soon too (from Vancouver)

for housing help, aside from the obvious craigslist, you can try these?

http://www.viewit.ca/

http://toronto.nowtoronto.com/rentals/classifieds/Results?section=4376

http://toronto.kijiji.ca/f-housing-apartments-for-rent-W0QQCatIdZ37

http://www.myhood.ca/rents/?

Ooo thank you. There's also apparently some insider housing thing that UT has that I can't access yet because I am not yet that official.

I had seen on FB that Sean seemed to be leaving Vanc but I wasn't sure if he was heading back to Toronto or not. That is a good deal.

Also hints on what neighborhoods/keywords to look for if I want to be as close to UT as possible would be much appreciated.

Congrats.

Also hints on what neighborhoods/keywords to look for if I want to be as close to UT as possible would be much appreciated.

The Annex (basically the surrounding residential area north of campus i.e. off bloor). Or just College (east of spadina, west of university) is probably better to live.

Also I might be visiting Buffalo for a thing in October, now that I will be nearby.

Buffoween?

Yes. Buffoween.

annex is a great location esp for u of t but it's not gonna be easy to find good cheap housing there i think.

I have no reason to bump this except ZOMG TORONTO!

Hey nice! will you be moving just in time for classes or are you planning on getting here for a bit of the summer too? ( i recommend the latter)

I need to figure that out. I need to figure so much out. But yes, I think I am leaning towards getting there mid-summer-ish. I would like to get a chance to get acclimated before starting up school.

ZOMG what is up with your hard-to-read transit map.

you living in TO now??

I will be in a few months!

MOST PRACTICAL DEGREE EVER!

Good, when rolled up, for batting puppies gently on the nose, thus leading them to consider the error of their ways. Portland will be a little poorer for your absence.

I do like puppy-batting.

I AM IN TORONTO!!!

Yay! They let you in! Have fun over there.

POUTINE IN THE SKY FOR CASU!!!!1

great! what area are you living in?

I am near Eglington and Laird. I do not know what this neighborhood is called. It was once East York, and might still be, but it might also be Laird or some other more localized neighborhood.

Casuistry, as a former and future Canadian, how do you feel about your return to your Native Soil. Does it taste any different as you nibble the first tenative sampling?

ok, i don't know that area at all.

I was only a former Canadian in my past lives, such as they were.

I don't know the area either!

I know that area -- there's a Canadian Tire and Future Shop at that intersection if memory serves, and a Best Buy down Laird a couple blocks. (Starbucks across from Best Buy if you care.)

Yes, these are my landmarks.

I don't know what they neighborhood is called specifically but I was there often enough on new release day.

Now I'm trawling the west end, in Etobicoke.

Yes, I am right near the Canadian Tire.

I am hoping for better coffee than Starbucks, or at least non-Starbucks coffee. I understand this isn't Portland, but...

I'm not sure what passes for "better coffee than Starbucks" in that neighborhood. Anyone that tells you Second Cup is the answer is not to be trusted, by the way.

Second Cup is *an* answer.

there's not really much going on in that neighbourhood i don't think.
if there was we might've thought up a name for it.

wait so casuistry is not actually canadian in the real way?

AFAIK Eg&Laird doesn't have a name, but it's in the general area of Leaside and if you go a few blocks west to Yonge, you can proclaim yourself at "Young and eligible"

Casuistry is a Canadian by inclination. Which is far better than being Canadian by deflection.

whatever

Casuistry is a former Canadian by wantingtogotoSaskatchewanImeanfuckingSASKATCHEWANion

does not qualify

ok, does he have to be a bastard child of Red Green or something? Come ON now.

i just thought he was a cdn who moved to the US! it happens! was curious.

also ok i was a bit bothered by this 'former canadian' business - if you are actually canadian you will forever be considered canadian even if you have other citizenships - there is no escaping

Even after one has had the chicken pox and recovered the virus remains dormant in one's body and much later in life may erupt again as a case of shingles.

what is your fucking problem

rrobyn u r killing me on this thread

i'm just jealous b/c we don't get a holiday today

yknow, cause once i was american, for a bit

but we got july 1 AND june 24!

it's like anti-xmas

summer-mas

Father Xmas >> Aunty Xmas

Second Cup does have better coffee than Burntbucks. AND somehow I'm getting free wifi here (not through Rogers). AND it's right around the corner. The coffee is adequate here.

No, sorry, I am not Canadian at all, and had never been to Canada until I toured there for my Sask album a few years ago. But it has long been a dream. But I am fully aware that I am just a wannabe, in this as in so many things.

I have seriously got to stop looking up excitedly every time I hear a Canadian accent.

Also Yonge is clearly more than a "few" blocks away. Though I have realized (from the real estate ads) that I am in Leaside.

Also, am I just being dense, or is the transit system here entirely opaque and largely unlabeled? In part I just keep expecting it to work like NYC's system, which it doesn't. I ended up with a... pack of tickets? Then I entered a subway station and... there were slots of tokens and some sort of card reader but nothing at all that said "put tickets here". Fortunately the person in the booth explained. Then I got off and was surprised to learn that the buses were, you know, inside the station. Which is clever, but they do not tell you this anywhere! I mean once you know this, there are signs for where to get the buses, but oof it could have been clearer. (Though I'll soon have the hang of it.)

I think this is the sort of thing that people complained about NYC's system in the 70s and 80s -- it has largely been simplified since, I think, thanks to the MetroCard, but I grew up with that system (while it simplified) so I don't know how it appears to outsiders.

Interesting... I found the TTC really intuitive and the NYC subway really confusing. I'm weird, however.

same here. but i grew up with ttc (sort of). i've been alot of places and used alot of transit systems and NY's gave me the hardest time out of any of them.

i am *not* defending the ttc, btw!

And also, what the fuck is up with this eliminating adult tickets?

toronto is so flat and good for cycling. get a bike and forget the TTR!

uh TTS

uh TTC

done.

Yes, I might get a bike, although biking in Portland, which is hilly but otherwise really dreamy for biking (bike lanes everywhere, drivers who are generally used to bikes), totally didn't work out for me. I like transit.

TTC's website, just like the MTA's (in NYC) is pretty much ass, and TriMet's (in PDX) totally pwns the both.

Second Cup does have better coffee than Burntbucks.

What an odd thing to say. Second Cup coffee has largely seemed like brown water with a burnt taste nearly every time I've tried it. I don't mind Starbucks as much. (Ultimately I prefer to brew my own, though.)

Well, I prefer to brew my own (if I can't have Stumptown brew it for me) but my press hasn't arrived yet.

Plus, you know, excuse to hang out using the internet.

Goddamn it, ever since then I've gotten nothing but burnt coffee from Second Cup. THANKS A LOT, SEANC. I had a good thing going!

See, that's more like it. At least you're getting the real experience now....you can call yourself a Canadian!

Next trick: see if you can get yourself thrown out of C'est What for daring to sit down to eat dinner.

I'll get back to you as soon as I figure out what you're talking about.

Ha, we were celebrating Sundar's birthday (if I recall correctly) and we were going to have dinner and some drinks, and when we asked if we could pull a couple tables together so we could accommodate more than four people they freaked out, treated us like we were about to start shooting heroin in the middle of the restaurant and asked us to go hang out at the bar instead. We argued with the manager and left instead -- and so far as I know, none of us has gone back of our own volition. (I ended up there anyhow because an event I had to attend was held there, but I will not ever give them money from my own wallet ever again after that incident.)

Speaking of which, at some point, FAP.