Oh, hot Toronto!

Back in Toronto -- and the heat is on! Literally. It's apparently around 34 degrees Celcius today, which is like... really hot Farenheit.

I am back in Canada for more auditions -- got in last night, here 2 nights, returning to New York tomorrow night. The staff at Le Germain Hotel knows me at this point, and I have a stash of office supplies left in their closet (printers, file racks, papers, etc.). It's a nice, chic hotel, with super duper comfy bed and pillows (so much so that David and I bought pillows for our home here on one trip) -- but I really have had just enough of casting for the time being, thinking about casting, trying to work out casting, keeping multiple shows in my head. My brain is about to burst! It has been so much traveling and so much casting, we are approaching the "creatives' holiday" period (where we are allowed holidays and are not expected to travel or be called upon to do so), and I must confess, it comes at the right time. I miss being at home in New York, seeing my friends, catching up, and I miss David and our non-work life in New York, even if we are only apart for a couple of nights. (Incidentally, this is David's first experience being in New York by himself and he is doing very well, eating left over melanzane alla parmigiana and tonight, he is having Robin over for a dinner of organic chicken sausages, salad and organic cider).

Toronto is summer hot, but it is nice here like this. There is a big "patio culture" -- drinking outside, on rooftops, mingling outdoors is a big thing, and there is a general buzz with the heat and the extended daylight. I have come to know this city and am fond of it, the people are nice. I am hoping that my New York friends will come visit me up here while I reside in this city (crossing fingers that the apartment they find for me is nice!). Tonight, Eleanor and I will go to Lee's, one of my favorite restaurants in Toronto, for a meal, which I hope will be delicious. And then one more day of auditions, then back to New York! There will be more auditions in New York (2 days), but at least I can go to them having woken up in my own bed, in my own apartment, next to my husband, and have a closet full of clothes from which to dress myself for the day. And then I will at least have the possibility, even if not realized, of seeing my friends in the evening, after work.

And this makes a whole lot of difference.