26 tuesday

• red line to columbia
• saw n! broadly invited to go to queer line dancing
• hungarian pastry shop (long line)
  • food: delicious dense choc cake + capuccino where barista goaded me into adding some cinnamon (he was right)
• koronet pizza
  • alleged staple
  • house pizza was good
• staten island ferry
  • met leslie/英琪, chemistry @shanghai university, internship with UN going to costa rica
• smashburger by madison square garden
  • classic burger with fries: asked for no ketchup... still got ketchup on bun

27 wednesday

• bus to montreal. samesun 7am
• le comptoir café
  • hotel lobby/coffee bar with one bench for seating
  • guy making coffee(took smoke break) from tunisia: "I thought that when I moved to here there would be less problems. But I realize now everywhere has problems."
• wandered old montreal
• notre dame basilica
  • fell asleep at the pews
• olympic stadium
• biodome
• bought a charger for 30 CAD
• planetarium
  • fell asleep again tbh
• pho anh♥
  • soul-healing B1 spicy beef pho
  • one father owner + his son(?) as sole server
  • (server name on the chit was something like "john the attractive" real teenage boy. embarassed/proud laugh "it's-it's just a troll"

28 thursday

• museum of fine arts
• arlo bookstore
  • eros the bittersweet, anne carson
• upstairs (jazz bar)♥
  • taurey butler trio!
  • butler is great pianist + played audience energy
  • excellent mojito + bartender hummed all the standards
• met antony in samesun, from china near shanghai, fluent in french, studied in algeria

29 friday

• frite alors
  • classic poutine
• rachelle-béry boutiques santé (grocery)
  • blueberries
  • pain au chocolat
  • yogi ginger tea
• café myriade
  • pretty leaf art mocha
• millennium comics
• café camas♥
  • coffee-thrifting fusion. hip crowd good chai
  • someone sat next to my reading spot and started rolling a blunt. got kicked out after trying to steal sunglasses
• renaud-bray bookstore
• casa del populo
  • gin and tonic. two bartenders per bar. show in basement
  • school house band + jade hilton, folk
• café campus
  • pop friday. student crowd
  • danced with random people until 3am
• met daniel in samesun, elder gay, montreal native, moving to vancouver, told me i should hit up sky club next time (saturday hot spot!)

30 saturday

• mont royal
• alchimiste en herbe
  • labrador tea for t
• artpop montréal
  • magnet for r and magnet for fridge
• saint josepht's oratory
  • great view. cold
• resto café safran+♥
  • charming. fell in love
• diese onze jazz bar
  • benjamin deschamps quintet invite allison au
  • drummer (al bourgeois) killed it
  • fried tofu poke + espresso martini