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Well, going back to Oz is getting really close and now thoughts of seeing everyone again are permanently swimming around my head, crowding out work ideas and making me slip into happy daydreams. I was just staring happily at our office wall, the shadows from the tree outside cast on its wall enough abstract visual stimulus for me to unfocus my eyes and imagine a party scene. I eased back to reality with a dopey grin on my face.
So, stuff has been happening. I got stranded in NYC a couple of weeks back due to a hurricane and was forced to stay another night. With the next available flight the following evening I was forced to wander the town all day until it was time to head off to the airport again. Oh noes! I headed up the empire state building and then took a sight-seeing river cruise around manhattan. photos to come.
I started back at the gym which has been nasty. I have just got through the first week so I'm not constantly aching and carrying on anymore which is good :D
We saw District 9 last friday and it was totally awesome. You should go and see it. Immediately. I'm soooo glad that this wasn't a stupid halo movie as it was originally intended to be. Also I thought it was great that Hollywood turned it down (probably because it wasn't a safe enough bet i.e. a remake of something else, or a story with a pre-packaged audience) and so they made the film anyway on a low (well relatively low) budget of $30M only to have it kick ass at the box office. It has gone to number 1 over the weekend and paid for itself with considerable interest. I really hope the movie studio clowns responsible for deciding which movies get the go ahead are paying attention to this. Or better yet, this encourages people to take a shot at making films without the involvement of the big studios.
mandellebrotte and I took an architecture boat cruise through the rivers of chicago on the weekend and learnt a lot. there was also an airshow on so the whole day jets screamed low over the city causing people to stop randomly in the street and gape upwards resulting in not a few accidents. The silly things is that by the time you heard the jets they had already disappeared over the buildings again so everyone was just staring at the sky and making 'whua' sounds. I wish I had taken a photo of their faces.
another reason why living in chicago is great:
So, stuff has been happening. I got stranded in NYC a couple of weeks back due to a hurricane and was forced to stay another night. With the next available flight the following evening I was forced to wander the town all day until it was time to head off to the airport again. Oh noes! I headed up the empire state building and then took a sight-seeing river cruise around manhattan. photos to come.
I started back at the gym which has been nasty. I have just got through the first week so I'm not constantly aching and carrying on anymore which is good :D
We saw District 9 last friday and it was totally awesome. You should go and see it. Immediately. I'm soooo glad that this wasn't a stupid halo movie as it was originally intended to be. Also I thought it was great that Hollywood turned it down (probably because it wasn't a safe enough bet i.e. a remake of something else, or a story with a pre-packaged audience) and so they made the film anyway on a low (well relatively low) budget of $30M only to have it kick ass at the box office. It has gone to number 1 over the weekend and paid for itself with considerable interest. I really hope the movie studio clowns responsible for deciding which movies get the go ahead are paying attention to this. Or better yet, this encourages people to take a shot at making films without the involvement of the big studios.
mandellebrotte and I took an architecture boat cruise through the rivers of chicago on the weekend and learnt a lot. there was also an airshow on so the whole day jets screamed low over the city causing people to stop randomly in the street and gape upwards resulting in not a few accidents. The silly things is that by the time you heard the jets they had already disappeared over the buildings again so everyone was just staring at the sky and making 'whua' sounds. I wish I had taken a photo of their faces.
another reason why living in chicago is great: