{"id":15737,"date":"2006-12-10T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2006\/12\/10\/hey-its-you\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:46","slug":"hey-its-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2006\/12\/10\/hey-its-you\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHey, it\u2019s you!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting in a vegetarian restaurant, waiting for my editor and her boyfriend.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I had a terrible hangover when I woke up this morning. At Gord’s party last night I was handed glass after glass of red wine, and, fool I was, kept taking them. I had lots of good conversations, some with old friends I didn’t know would be there, and some with strangers. Stranger-talks can be so rewarding, since their content comes out of nothing and I always learn something about something. I even found myself pitching one guy on The Strategic Coach Program, and a woman told me she’d heard of me because she’s in the program.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I took the streetcar across town at some silly time to get home, then was followed for a block by a homeless guy who would not<\/i> take my “No”. There are so many beggars in Toronto it’s staggering. (Coincidentally, before I took out my Pocket PC to write this, I was reading Wallace Shawn’s The Fever<\/i> which is about this social split. Yes, the “Incontheivable” guy in The Princess Bride<\/i> and the dinosaur voice in the Toy Story<\/i> movies is a serious playwright.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

There’s a fella across the restaurant who I went to Dalhousie with. Since university, he’s become famous for being in the band Sloan. I don’t want to go over and say hi, because I don’t want to come across like a slavering fanboy. He was such a nice guy back in school, and I always thought he<\/i> should be my best friend instead of the guy who was my best friend. (Though now that I look back, it’s plain that my best friend’s “transgressions” have more to do with the fact that I fancied him rotten and he wasn’t wired that way.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Okay, my friends are here, so I’m spared jumping across that social distance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

P.S. I did end up saying hi. It was no big deal, and Jay’s still a nice guy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

P.P.S. Here’s my mobile number in Toronto if anyone needs to reach me:
647-285-0888<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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