Busyness

Things have been busy for the past couple weeks because of class and having to go to work. Class was tough, requiring a great deal of reading of classic political thinkers every day. But I made it. That is, if my paper is not disastrous. Other than class and work, we've been doing this and that. Last Saturday, we took a day trip to Kingston, where we walked around and looked at the thousands of old, cool buildings in the city.
One of them was billed as John A. MacDonald's house, which I thought would be cool, because he was one of the "Fathers of Confederation;" kind of like George Washington for Canada. Turns out it wasn't so cool. He only actually lived there only for 13 months and when he did, he rented. The inside was a recreation of life in the 1870s and the house was remarkable for its distinctive Italian architecture....but it's not "John A. MacDonald's house!" I felt gypped (gipped, jipped?). On the long walk back from this lame tour we walked past a house that John A. had lived in for 5 or 6 years and his wife had died there. Why didn't we tour that house and learn about him, not Italian architecture. But this house was in disrepair, so I guess it's not enough to draw the people. Whatever.
Then we headed off on a boat on Lake Ontario for a three hour tour, a three hour tour. A tour of the Thousand Islands that is. Yes, the Thousands Islands of the dressing of the same name. It's actually more like 1,800 islands and I'd say about 1,750 of them look about the same. It was all very pretty and nice, but I found myself a bit bored and still tired from the week. There are a lot of cool island-houses. I think I'd like to retire there. People have a house with with a little extra dirt to live on in some places. How cool is that? Just their own little island. Coolest of all was Boldt Castle, the stunning castle made as a gift to someone's love who died before it was completed. It's not just some one-turret wonder castle, it's the real deal. It is almost the sole inhabitant of the island and it is beautiful. A wedding was going on as we circled it.
It was nice getting out to see more of Ontario, but I think the rest is what I most appreciated. Back to busyness.