A Day in the Life of...

I headed into the city yesterday, to check out the new Crystal expansion at the ROM and also to attend a birthday. Before heading over to Toronto, I took a look in the mirror and realized that my appearence was embarassing, so I made for the barbershop. Having lived in Hamilton for three years now, I know this city has many beautiful areas and a large amount of nature, but on the flip side, once you head to the east side of the city, things immediately become sketchy.

Here are a few of the things I witnessed, in my brief time on the east side.

-A seemingly mentally-unbalanced senior citizen verbally lashing out at a blind man, because he didn't like that the blind man had a white cane, leaving the blind man to yell back in anger, almost on the verge of tears
-A mother, walking down the street with her drugged-out teenage daughter, wearing only white (well... formerly white) tube socks
-Two pigeons mating in the middle of a busy downtown sidewalk

West of the main north/south street, you'll see none of this, but once you cross that magical barrier, it's no-holds barred.

After experiencing a days' worth of visual delights - all before 11am - I headed downtown to see the ROM with Baxter and James. That didn't quite work out, as it was too busy, but I did manage to run into my sister and her boyfriend on Bloor Street, where she took this photo. After that bit of randomess, it was off to the birthday, before getting out of town completely. Hopefully it's not so crazy next week, when I try again.

While I was in the barbershop, one of the customers mentioned that they would be a bartender at a speaking event at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, for Colin Powell. Turns out that there's going to be a large protest and they're expecting 10,000 people to turn out. Just because I can hardly believe I'm typing it, yes, Colin Powell is going to be in Hamilton today, at 5pm. Such an odd city.