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New job & apartment continue to be splendid. I did something dumb tonight, though, and thought this Jonathan Lethem reading was an hour later, so I fiddled around at work for a while before catching the bus over and missed most of it. :( Did get his signature on Girl in Landscape, so that's something, anyway.
Self, this is why you started a Google calendar when you moved up here. So check it.
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Mac at work and PC at home = losing dexterity with keyboard shortcuts and scroll wheel direction. Hashtag first-world problems.
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festivids signups have commenced. I am settled on a few things I want to request and a few things I know I can vid; now comes the tough question of whether it's a good idea to expand beyond the past tradition of only offering sources for which I already have a back-up plan. Because there are some nominated sources I like and/or know well but don't have an idea for, so if the request is vague or not to my taste or whatever, will I pull through with something to be proud of? I mean, it worked for Remix, except when it didn't, but there was something to start with there. Hmmmm.
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Read:
There may not be a 5. I'm vidding for the first time in months? A thing for maybe Halloween. We'll see.
One day I will write a story again.
New job & apartment continue to be splendid. I did something dumb tonight, though, and thought this Jonathan Lethem reading was an hour later, so I fiddled around at work for a while before catching the bus over and missed most of it. :( Did get his signature on Girl in Landscape, so that's something, anyway.
Self, this is why you started a Google calendar when you moved up here. So check it.
2.
Mac at work and PC at home = losing dexterity with keyboard shortcuts and scroll wheel direction. Hashtag first-world problems.
3.
festivids signups have commenced. I am settled on a few things I want to request and a few things I know I can vid; now comes the tough question of whether it's a good idea to expand beyond the past tradition of only offering sources for which I already have a back-up plan. Because there are some nominated sources I like and/or know well but don't have an idea for, so if the request is vague or not to my taste or whatever, will I pull through with something to be proud of? I mean, it worked for Remix, except when it didn't, but there was something to start with there. Hmmmm.
4.
Read:
- Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael Collins (the doctor, not the astronaut or the revolutionary)
- Ender's Game (I know, welcome to 30 years ago)
- now trying Jumper by Stephen Gould, but not liking it
- For those playing at home, the vampire romance anthology petered out in the second half and ended with a gross one that I can only guess was placed there as a cautionary note to the reader because it was about how finding a "real" vampire isn't romantic, it's painful and gory and disgusting.
- Gravity (wonderful, although the spoken lines were clunky)
- Tiny Furniture (very much like Girls, so I guess I can see why critics complain that Lena Dunham's work is about herself, although I'm not sure why that's a bad thing)
- Straight A's (a pleasant surprise, given that I watched it only for having Anna Paquin)
- Pitch Black (enjoyed the heck out of it, but have heard the sequels suck)
- Magic Mike (okay, but will support movies that enable the female gaze)
- The Naked Gun (rewatching "Space Seed" with iggy made me want more Ricardo Montalban stat, sue me)
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (how did I not know until researching for a vid that William "Section 31" Sadler played the Grim Reaper and did so hilariously?)
- Project Runway (caught up, good mindless entertainment)
There may not be a 5. I'm vidding for the first time in months? A thing for maybe Halloween. We'll see.
One day I will write a story again.