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[danaeris]

Well, I bought the tickets, so its official. I'm moving to Toronto.

If anyone knows someone who might be interested in my room, please toss us a line.


No specific time limit:

• sit down with housemates and find out how much assistance they want in finding a new housemate, and go from there
  
• get boxes, start packing, make customs list of said material while packing
  
• figure out the deal with utilities in my name: Speakeasy, Netflix, and SBC
  
• deal with cellphone: how to cancel the contract, and WHEN to do so, and whether to sell the phone or keep it to use on the Canadian network
  
• try to get in touch with high school friends
  
• network -- meet people on lj and elsewhere in the GTA
  
• decide about Arisia and buy pass, room, etc.
  
• ditto for NASW and AAAS
  
• eventually, start selling/giving away furniture
  
• find somewhere you can work out near parents' place and near brothers' place

Also (italics mean I just am aware of it; I have no idea if I'm going)...
-12/1: Give Landlady my official one month notice here in SF
-1/1: Officially move out.
-1/5: fly away!
-1/21 - 1/23: Arisia (and either before or after, visit folks in Boston?
-1/28-1/30 JanusCon (pagan thingy in Ottawa)
-2/15-2/22 (Tues-Mon): NASW and AAAS
-4/8-4/10 Ad Astra, Toronto's Con
-5/27-5/30 (Friday-Monday): BayCon
Anime North (Toronto)
-6/8-6/13 Wic-can fest (might be worth checking out)

Comments

[northbard.livejournal.com]

Allow me to assist with part of this. I'm a friend of a friend of inki's (actually, a couple of them I think), and I think I can say that there are a bunch of us who would be pleased to help you dicover TO. If you were coming a bit earlier, I'd say come to our Saturnalia on Dec 18th.

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

Hi! Wow, that's a very generous offer. I appreciate it. I've been networking here and on OKCupid, and I'm pretty sure I saw your profile on there (guess what my name is on OKCupid? yup, you guessed it).

inki and I have known each other since before I left Toronto (Etobicoke actually) to go to university -- we met when I visited MIT to check it out.

outcastspice and I met at a bdsm munch I went to a year or two ago while I was visiting Toronto.

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to, as you say, "discovering Toronto." I spent my childhood there, but I guess its time to reclaim it as an adult.

[northbard.livejournal.com]

Hmm..except I'm not on OKCupid. :) So if you saw my profile there, someone's pimping for me.*g*

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

Oops. Well, maybe you should be on OKCupid!

I must have seen that picture here on LJ, then. Is that bodypaint, liquid latex, a shirt, or what?

[tikva.livejournal.com]

Sometime around when you're going to be in DC, there's going to be a nifty BDSM/poly/pagan/queer/various stuff conference up in the Baltimore area. I think it's a winter version of Dark Odyssey.

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

sounds interesting. I'll have to look into it.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I'll be heading out to Arisia, from Toronto, though I'm not sure quite how, yet, if you want to discuss pooling somehow.

If you have enough fannish contacts in Boston, is it possible we are 7-steps connected though the suspects/elbows community?

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

I was contemplating pricelining tickets through Buffalo... But we could carpool (I don't have a car, but if you do...), or carpool together to get to the Buffalo airport.

I imagine we probably are connected at some level. And we certainly will be if we both get into Ryerson; I don't know how many classes we'd have together being in slightly different programs, but we'd see each other around, I imagine.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

i am uncarred, but there are a couple airlines around ehre that do 'companion fare' type things.

If we both go into journalism next year, even if you're in 2-year instead of the 4 I'll be in, I believe there's some class overlap, simply because we're both 'just starting'. Either way, the faculty is apparently very....intimate. The Rogers Communications Centre definitely is. Though considering they have 18000 students on a campus that's one city block in each direction, everything's a bit cosy ;-)