summer, don’t go so quickly.

a great weekend in toronto:

saturday and sunday was the playoff tournament for the toronto ultimate club‘s summer season. i was playing with the huckstables, my tuesday night team. we were seeded 12th of 17 teams, but we won all three games we played on saturday and played better than we’d played all season. today, we won handily against one of our (many) arch-rivals, a team that we had lost to by just one point earlier this week. we lost our last two, finishing the tournament with an impressive 4-2 record and tied for 7th. we had a great season, one filled with lots of personal and collective improvement, and i can’t wait until next season – or until fall league starts on wednesday.

right after the last game yesterday, i rushed home to change into a shirt and tie, grabbed my longboard, and took off to yonge and st clair to meet 250 other skateboarders for the toronto board meeting. the board meeting is an annual meetup of toronto/southern ontario’s longboarding community and a massive act of civil disobedience: the skateboarders started at yonge and st clair and bombed down yonge street, heading towards downtown. the trail of riders – at least five minutes long in some of the faster sections – was almost entirely decked out in white button downs and ties. the group stopped traffic (and wide-mouthed passerby) down yonge and through the gaybourhood before a brief pause at the man-on-a-horse statue in queen’s park. we continued on to nathan phillips square, lay on the ground to stop traffic in front of the citytv building at john and queen, and passed through chinatown before ending the ride in kensington market. i learned that i am exceptionally outside the demographic of the average longboard enthusiast, but somehow that didn’t stop me from “shredding the gnar”, which may be the only time in my life i ever write that; please allow me to relish this moment and file this away under the very short list of ‘times i wore a tie during the daytime in 2007′.

after a quick pitstop at home, i met up with two friends to visit the vegetarian food fair, at the harbourfront center by the lake. i am a recent convert to the vegetarian lifestyle – i was forced into it by india and found that i liked it, or rather that i liked that i wasn’t defaulting to street meat after the bar, although i crave street meat more than i miss steak, which says some really odd things about me and my food choices, but i digress – and it was great to get some good recipe ideas and enjoy delicious indian food. if you have any good veggie recipes that are available online, leave me some links in the comments!