People You See On the TTC, Heading Downtown Around 4 PM and Back to Scarborough Around 11

85 Sheppard West to McCowan Rd.:

• Jeff Li but taller, complete with chin whiskers
• Fat sassy black lady, with terrible burn (?) scar

129 McCowan South to Scarborough Town Centre Station:

• Achingly attractive Chinese girl, snappy dressed and big in all the right places (e.g. calves, thighs)

Scarborough RT South to Kennedy Station:

• Blonde Cindy who Went to ASE, and I waved but didn't talk to her this time even though we had English together and I probably helped her along at one point or the other

Bloor Subway West to Yonge/Bloor Station:

• Effete-looking young Indian man waiting for someone, who I assumed was gay but then later I saw him with a girl

Yonge Subway South to Dundas Station:

• Occupied with NOW Magazine crossword, Michelle

University Subway North to St. George Station:

• Woman with disgustingly skinny legs, fine blonde hairs thereon

Bloor Subway East to Kennedy Station:

• Hilariously tired children, parents fresh from Ikea (bags full)

Scarborough RT North to Scarborough Town Centre Station:

• Mabel Meable from Woburn Spanish class and Taco Bell, with her Filipino seeming boyfriend

133 Neilson East and North to Sheppard:

• Bald (crazy bald) angry Afro-Carribbean matriarch, with her grandchildren (?)

85 Sheppard East to Breckon/Brenyon:

• An asleep girl who looks like that Persian-born Norwegian model who wanted to be Miss Norway but it came out that she had performed in two adult films and then she tried to claim that it was her twin sister, her zip-up sweater falling open and revealing her low-cut top

Belleville Is So Damn White.

Belleville is so damn white, it's ridiculous. You know how in Toronto every Pizza Pizza is run by either brown or Chinese people? In Belleville, they're all white. The Chinese food place is probably run by white people. Go to Wal-Mart in Scarborough, you see all shapes and colours of people. Go to Wal-Mart in Belleville, the people are all white, and mostly fat.
While it's nice to see a larger number of blondes and redheads, for someone from Toronto, it's incredibly disconcerting. You feel--regardless of how ridiculous and groundless this may be--that you were black, Chinese, South Asian, whatever, you would get odd looks, that every Wal-Mart cashier would be hoping for you to go to the next checkout so they wouldn't have to have a potentially embarassing interaction with you.

P.S. July books.
P.P.S. If you are from the Yucatán, you are Yucatecan.