October 31, 1994: My daughter had a mouthful of candy whenever she said "Trick or treat"

Thirty years ago today

            On Monday I didn’t realize until I got to work that I’d forgotten to turn my clock back. In the nearly empty flight manual that I found among my landlord’s other unused things in the laundry room I started a new journal. I wrote this in the Second Cup on College Street. I called Mistress Sharon during my break at work and she said she’d phone me on Tuesday. I tried to reach Adina but her grandmother hung up on me. I posed for nine hours in the Stewart Building of the Ontario College of Art and then I went to meet Nancy and our daughter at a McDonald’s at Yonge and Eglinton. We walked to some streets just south of Eglinton and west of Yonge and trick or treated a few houses. Then my daughter wanted to go to the same houses she’d went to with her mother before I met them. She was eating her candy constantly as we walked and her mouth was full as she said “Trick or treat”. She was drunk from the sugar and was too tired to continue so we finished at 21:30. We went to the subway where I called Adina and went to meet her at the Café Verité. She got to leave early so we went for a walk. It was so nice to be near her. We went to a bar and talked while I had a beer and then I saw her to the bus.