Status report from Montreal

Travel can always be a little draining, but getting here worked pretty well: the plane landed significantly early (as in, I was on a bus to the Metro earlier than we were scheduled to be in the terminal at Dorval), and spending the afternoon at the Musee des Beaux Arts was a reasonable plan because they have a bag check and lots of seats, so I could sit and rest for a couple of minutes every five or ten, and my knee seemed okay. It seems, in fact, to be doing mostly okay. One nice thing about random weekday afternoons is that museums are less crowded: I was able to sit on the floor and look at the bits of the Inuit sculpture that aren't visible from above or even straight-on.

I might even have some photos worth showing off, once I get home.

Other than that, I seem to have brought the monsoon with me from New York, but only got drenched once (two other times, we sat indoors and waited for the heaviest rain to pass). Reading, conversation, the usual pleasant time, though more tired than I would have expected (and thus an unplanned nap yesterday afternoon).

There have been other small inconveniences/changes of plan, one of which now has me sitting here thinking "I need to go get real food" because while pho is a nice dinner, it didn't produce the leftovers I was counting on for breakfast.

Also, it is supposed to be summer, so I didn't bring my flannel pajamas this trip; fortunately, rysmiel and papersky have plenty of nice, snug duvets. (The forecast a couple of days ago was for a low last night of 13; I suspect it may have been cooler than that.)