a trip in chill

As I was walking home on Bloor St. today, I saw a couple of guys walking by, one of them looked awefully familiar, but I couldn't remember right then who he was, as he walked by me, within a fraction of a second, another older guy appeared in front of me, just walking out of the store I was walking by. He too seemed very familiar.

A few seconds later, I finally remembered who they were. The older guy was a professor I TA'ed a course for last year, and the other guy was one of the other TA's in the same course !!!! It's not super exciting or mind blowing, but still, I'd say the fact that three totally separate people, who only know each other through this one course, would come together after a year in the same coordinate in time and space, is at least mildly amusing.

I probably wouldn't have remembered to write about this were it not for another, slightly more bizarre, incident that just happened. My friend who was here for a movie, was wearing his jacket and getting ready to leave, and turned on his discman just before leaving. I could hear the music coming out of the headphones, that he wasn't still wearing.

It was a very weird, annoying, electronic music. A short patter than kept repeating, very sci fi. Just as I was thinking about how scary that tune was my friend began explaining how that short track had appeared out of nowhere on the CD that he burnt just prior coming to my house. He said he has never heard that track in his life and he's sure he doesn't have it on his comptuer and even if he does, he didn't burn it, but it somehow appeared on the CD as the first track. I guess it could be a glitch in the burner. But it is a clear track; a really scary/annoying electronic pattern repeating, gradually increasing in volume before dying out.

Anyway, I gotta admit I was sort of freaked out. I advised him not to listen to that track!

In other, less weird news, we saw Motorcycle Diaries (finally). All I want to say is that I thought this was the most over-rated movie of last year. Neither of us liked it. Actually I sort of hated it.

Oh and back to weird stuff, today for the first time when I got home, instead of having my keys ready while walking the hallway to my door, I took my student card out and tried to swipe it when I got to my door (my office door works like that), but I guess that's just my reoccuring absent-mindedness.

Anyway, if I disappear or something I'm probably abducted by aliens.