overheated monday-evening randomness

just because it’s monday and it's warm and my attention span seems to be taking an extended weekend...

* it has been very hot in toronto for the past few days. as such, my apartment has also been quite toasty (a steady 27C/80F). then, last night, rain moved in and so did a cold front. the temperatures outside dropped...but my glorious, wall-to-wall windows face due north, have comparatively small windows that actually open and nary a breeze wafted in. thus, even though the temperatures outside have cooled considerably, it hasn’t dipped below 25C in here yet.

* i’m considering adopting a cat. i go back and forth on the subject almost daily. on the one hand, i love animals and have always wanted a furry pet (we had fish and birds growing up, and neither species was particularly interested in cuddling or playtime). it would be nice to have another living, breathing, huggable being in this big apartment with me, and i certainly now have the space for a feline friend. but on the other hand, it’s sort of like adopting a child – suddenly, i’ll have a dependant. i won’t be able to just pack up and head out on a road trip with young beatrix. i’ll need a cat sitter. there will be vet bills and food and toys to buy. good grief, what if something goes wrong? will i become a cliché? the single gal, home alone with a microwave dinner and her cat? it’s a decision i don’t want to take lightly because i don’t want to be one of those twits who adopt an animal and then bring it back to the SPCA three weeks later because they changed their mind or the cat peed on the bed or the dog ate the remote. OMG, what if i get a cat and it pees on my bed? anyway, if i do adopt, it will be from the glorious york region OSPCA, where the cats roam free in giant rooms (and, sometimes, throughout the facility) instead of being put in cages. so, they’re socialized and much more relaxed, which allows visitors to get a good sense of their little personalities. anyway, for those of you clicking the link, young beatrix and i visited the OSPCA on saturday and i’ve been considering the following cats: avalon (this is the one my mom likes), fifi (at least i think it was fifi), lola, page (whom we nicknamed “little monkey” because she was so spastically adorable) and sami (pictured), who reeeally stole my heart but whose long hair worries me. i’m a neat freak. i need a cat with a clean bum.

* orange tic tacs are addictive. i can eat them like candy. but only the ones from the U.S., which are actually orange in colour. speaking of U.S. snacks, you get more sunchips per bag in the states than you do in canada.

* tonight, i’m heading to bravo! for a “live at the rehearsal hall” concert featuring serena ryder. i am woefully uneducated where her music is concerned, but the LATRH gigs are always a blast regardless of who’s performing.

* are you watching So You Think You Can Dance? if not, why not? it is one of my favourite summer-season reality shows. host cat deeley is fantastic, the judges rawk and the contestants are jaw-droppingly talented. my fave summer-season reality show is, of course, Big Brother, which will take over my life for three months starting sometime in late june or early july. On the Lot is tanking badly, and will likely be off the air completely in a week or two and, despite a huge injection of money (clearly culled from a thousand corporate sponsors whose products are shamelessly placed throughout the show), Canada’s Next Top Model remains tragically irrelevant. can you name who won last year? neither can i, and i watched it.

* did you see jessica biel do nothing to combat those lesbian rumours with last night’s near liplock with sarah silverman at the MTV Movie Awards? if not, you can watch it here. watch for a sudden surge in gossip items about JB and justin timberlake “seen canoodling at L.A. hotspot [insert name of random club here]” where a “source” will undoubtedly claim that “the two of them couldn’t keep their hands off each other!” (for the uninitiated, these items are often planted by PR folks and are usually all structured the exact same way.)

* i saw Surf’s Up on saturday morning and loved it. mario cantone’s “mike the plover” was my favourite character. review coming soon at the ‘pie.

that’s all. i think i’ll make kraft dinner for my pre-show meal. with CAKE for dessert! and then an hour+ walk to the studio.