At one point on Valentine’s Day, Pete Vere and I were walking side-by-side, with him holding a rose. But it was okay — Canada had not yet passed its gay marriage bill.
I was only in Ottawa for two nights, and Pete was kind enough to show me to the Heart and Crown pub so I could get some food after my run-in with Canadian immigration. The next night, we went back with frequent Catholic Light commenter Tim Ferguson, the Latin professor from Pete’s university, as well as Pete’s lovely wife and his two cute, impish daughters. After the ladies went home to bed, we met up with two other friends of Pete and went to something called “Tim Horton’s,” or I think that’s what it was called. They sell good doughnuts there, whatever the name is.
I don’t want to post the names of the other people, because I haven’t asked their permission, but I did enjoy meeting everyone. If I get back to Ottawa, I look forward to seeing you guys again. And if anyone’s ever in the D.C. area, let me know and maybe we can meet up at some point.
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Just to clarify, I’m the Catholic Light commenter Tim Ferguson, and a fellow student with Pete at the University of St. Paul (he’s in the doctoral program, I’m a lowly licentiate student). There was an additional person with us, who is the Latin professor at the university. It always confusing when putting together lists like this, but I didn’t want people to think I was the Latin professor, who is much more erudite than I.
It was a good evening, and I think an enjoyable conversation was had by all.
Sorry, Tim — you’re right, I should have separated you guys with semi-colons, not commas. Mea culpa.