Day In Downtown

The day (or in this case biological clock speaking, evening) was spent in downtown doing a “career run” with the Wife. She wanted to see more of the magazines offered in the USA and Canada that might need her illustrations, so we tromped down to the Toronto Reference Library to look at a few.

That was a bad idea. The place, as can be seen left, is unbelievably huge. They had magazines. Many magazines. TOO many magazines. Like every freakin’ magazine on the planet. In the end, rather than wander up and down the shelves looking at American Philisophical Quarterly and the Costume Society Report, we eventually gave up and just hit Indigo’s to look at the good ol’ fashioned, non-informative glossy magazines there and write down the names of art directors and mailing addresses. We also had hot dogs at the bench by an old church across from the Royal Ontario Museum and did groceries. All in all, a fun if boring day.