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My brother is taking me to see the Royal Wood concert tonight *yay* This is extra good because I need a good thing to look forward to. Work was going okay all morning, busy of course, but not terribly so. Then someone else made a mistake and debited me this afternoon (I work in finance) and now I'm having to work out what happened and it was just someone else being careless and sending the debit because they could without doing any investigating on their end and it makes piles of extra work for me because I have to figure out how to fix this. Plus I can already see that there's a chance this will be made more complicated.

Also the lovely homophobic woman of yesterday's ranting LJ entry has been walking past me all day with her nose up in the air. I'm absolutely serious. She's visibly doing that nose-in-the-air look of moral superiority. It's annoying.

Small joy of the day: One of my tutoring students went on vacation and brought me some seashells as a gift :) I have them up on display with my Jack Sparrow on top of my computer.

Writer's Block: Public Transit Nightmare

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This is a good one. As I don't drive I have lots of these. I think one of the absolute worst experiences I've had was when this guy and his dog were on the bus and I don't know what the dog had been doing but he was soaking wet and stunk. Not like regular wet dog stink, not even like sprayed by a skunk stink... like the worst thing I think I have ever smelled in my life stink. I have nothing to compare it to, I've never smelled anything that bad before or since then. But I spent the entire bus ride thinking I was going to throw up and trying to repress my gag reflex because the smell was that bad. He got off the bus 2 stops after I got on and the smell lingered for the rest of the ride. I had to change when I got home because it had permiated my clothes.

Close runners up:

Being on a streetcar where some 20 something guy hit a little old lady for no reason. Then the driver locked down the car and called the cops and the guy came to the doors I was standing next to and kicked his way out. Full on swinging himself from the railing on the stairs at the doors until they gave out. Not the most fun time ever.

The Greyhound trip overnight from Sudbury to TO. 1 trip where two men from WaWa spent the entire ride drinking and puking. I was so glad that my frend Matt had the aisle seat that trip! Another trip where a really overweight gentleman sat next to me, his fat was on top of my leg so I was pinned in. Already not loving this but it got worse. He was wearing blue tights with red shorts overtop, jumbo sized Superman style. Uncomfortable!

Royal Wood show

As I posted earlier today my brother took me to the Royal Wood concert tonight. *sigh* that man (Royal) is amazing. I don't think I've met a single person who does not find him handsome, even my straight male friends had to agree on that one. So already it was going to be a great night. Then I'm chatting away with my brother and randomly see Kevin Fox walk by (not so randomly actually as he played in the show... and as he's generally at at least half of the shows I go to in TO lol) but I made a note of it because both Kat and Andrea would be amused to know it :)

Then I was back to chatting away and I hear a familiar voice, turn around and it's Sarah Slean :) This is extra odd because I was having a dream last night just before I woke up that I was at a concert of hers and was chatting with her about something. So *yay* surprise Sarah :) I said a quick hello and introduced my brother and apparently we look alike.. I still don't see it lol.

The concert itself was fabulous. I really must buy his albums. Not only was it just fabulous in general but I had a special highlight. Royal Wood had the audience harmonize to one of his songs... I'm not sure what it's called.... "there's no place like home" (does anyone see where this is going?) So we're harmonizing away and he sung a verse from Somewhere Over the Rainbow! So for me, who requests Sarah sing that song ALL OF THE TIME, I got about as close to that request as I think I ever will, and way closer than I ever expected to get since I was sitting about a row over form her singing along to the song. It was a happy fangirl moment :)

Anyways now I'm high on music. Royal Wood put on a show you could just soar to, fantastic! And I have to manage to get some decent amount of sleep today so I can survive work tomorrow. Goodnight all!

***ETA*** I found the song that Somewhere Over The Rainbow was worked into. ( lyrics behind the cut )