oh, it's 4:50am and i've got three hours to go. Longest. night. ever.

absolutely brightened by phone calls from smiling voices. Conducted through a haze of sleep deprivation, but lovely all the same.

So weird to be back in school mode after four days of absolute hedonism. Modelling pimping clothes on Queen St., sipping champagne cocktails at the top of the CN tower, dim sum in Chinatown.

Mummies and dinosaurs at the Royal Ontario Museum. We're such a blink in the grand history of the world. It's so hard to fathom the life of the woman whose hands fashioned a clay pot 3000 years ago.

And dinosaurs... oh, they make me seven again. I still long to see just one. As if they existed, those gigantic creatures of claw and teeth. It's enough to make you believe in unicorns and dragons.

Toronto. Crowded, chic, diverse [most multicultural city in the world], and full of traffic, and i love it.

And all with my favorite people ever. Laughs, old jokes, familiarity, sparkiness... Just a kickass weekend that made me so glad to be here.

I'm hoping that's going to carry me right through the next 38 days. That's right: 38 days.

4:50 a.m. - 2003-02-26