Things That Make Me Happy

This week is RyeACCESS' Ryerson Disability Awareness Week and we did our annual barrier labelling campaign today. We only had time to cover the newer buildings on campus and in doing so we got to tour the brand new Ryerson Business building. It's not perfect but I was seriously impressed with the standard of accessibility. All floors had a private, accessible washroom with an automatic door button, an automatic lock and an intercom in case you need assistance. All of the major lecture halls have automatic doors and designated wheelchair seating with special tables and the building has not one, but three elevators! I know it doesn't sound like much, but it is a HUGE difference from the accessibility of the other buildings on campus. Even the Engineering building, which is only three years older is littered with accessibility flaws. I'm really interested to know why they suddenly seem to be paying so much more atrention to accessibility issues. I think I might try and do a bit of research. It gives us hope, but it's hard to know if it's a standard that the University is planning to continue with. Is it simply that the particular developer is more attentive, or does it have something to do with the extra money that they got from sharing the space with Best Buy and Canadian Tire (yup, you heard me right...don't ask!) either way I'm seriously considering becoming a business major *hehe*.

While I was procrastinating against my Soc essay tonight (oops!) I discovered that Anthony Rapp has a new website complete with blog, appearances, merch(which doesn't have anything in it yet) and it seems ALBINOKid will also have a website soon, yay! For now if you click the link you can watch a short video of Anthony and the band. I saw the paperback version of Without You in the bookstore the other day...=). Yeah, yeah, I'm a dork, I know. But so exciting!

We made a Facebook profile for RyeACCESS the other day so I decided to make one for myself too. I thought Facebook was kind of boring before I signed up but the last couple of days I've been a little bit obsessed with it. Pathetic I know, but it's really cool to see all the people that you know somehow--and people respond so quickly!

And the last thing that makes me happy right now is that I got tickets today to see Gordon Lightfoot on Friday. It should be a GREAT show. I'll finally get to hear the original version of Early Morning Rain live and yeah, we all know Gord's Gold will be stuck in the back of my mind the whole time. =p.

It was too good to be true!

The McGarrigle Christmas tour has been cancelled! What's with that? Which McGarrigle had to go and get sick? Okay, so I don't wish sickness on Kate or Anna...or God forbid, Martha *snicker*, but honestly, was canceling the whole tour really necessary? To add insult to injury the NY Carnegie Hall show on Dec 13 is the only date that's still a go, but it's now become "the *Wainwright* Family and Friends Christmas." That probably means that it will include Loudon, which the other show did not. Gah, I've said it before and I'll say it again, Why don't I live in New York?! I guess all I can say now is either bring Judy to T.O or finish that album faster boy! I need a little fabulousness in my life!

While we're on the subject of Rufus, (for those of you who haven't already figured it out, it's not exactly his family that I'm upset about missing) but while I was Googling the appropriate photo to go with my MSN screenname I came across this:

I was not unaware of our boy's Lumberjack tendencies, but that doesn't mean I understand them...