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Great to be here!! I can’t believe that procrastination can get you this far: to a music festival in Canada’s biggest city. Here’s the story. I am one of the contest winners from the MuchMusic Vfest contest. I am a graduate student back in the Peg… that is Winnipeg in case you don’t know. I have been working from home for the last 2 weeks trying my best to get a paper done for publication. The house has never been cleaner. Writing up scientific data is not my forte, but I managed to step up on the couch with my laptop in front of the TV. See we just got cable a month ago. I have been living without cable for 5 years. The student life of no time or money for TV. Besides, I can get all of the good shows with the good old rabbit ears. So now we have cable and I have rediscovered MuchMusic. I saw a commercial on the channel last week advertising the Virgin Festival with Massive Attack headlining and a chance to win a trip for two if you entered online. I was entered within two minutes. I got the call that I was a winner two days later and flew to Toronto a week later. It is my first time in Toronto. I have never seen so many glass condo towers. I have had time to hang around the massive downtown area with friends for the last couple of days. It has been a fantastic weekend. And here I am at the festival. There are some great bands lined up tonight. I am really looking forward to Broken Social Scene. Great that they could step in at the last minute…although I am still disappointed that Massive Attack couldn’t make it out. Thanks MuchMusic for the great weekend!!

Chantal

Posted on Sunday, September 10th, 2006 at 7:18 pm by Unknown and is filed under VFest2006.

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