post office surprise, museum visit, films for "J"
Much of today was an errand day for me. One errand was a visit to a post office. Because "T" had the day off from school, he came along for the ride. The postal worker saw him, and apparently had some free time, and offered T a brief tour behind the scenes. T enjoyed it. I did too; it brought back memories of when I had a post office tour as an elementary school field trip. The guy said it would probably be his last tour, because he's just a few days from retirement.
Another errand was a trip to Costco with a four item shopping list. I left with a full shopping cart, spending about $200. Costco can be like that. And I still needed two more stops for fuel (which I forgot to buy) and celery, which I couldn't find.
Thanks to the Costco visit, J and I should be mostly set for groceries through the rest of SIFF, which is why I didn't stick to the shopping list.
Later, T and I went to a museum for a while. We met his school friend "A" and A's mother Z. They were pleased to see each other outside school.
SIFF
Meanwhile, "J" saw three films.
Her early show was Lest We Forget, a documentary collecting stories told by people who survived the Holocaust. Her impression was although the subject is important, as a documentary it wasn't all that good. She contrasted with Shoah, which covers similar material in a better film.
Her mid-afternoon film was Blinded by this Light, about a Pakistan fan of Bruce Springsteen. She found it emotionally manipulative, funny, formulaic, well made, but not something she'd recommend all that strongly.
Her final, early evening film was Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts, a documentary about a transvestite once featured on Ru Paul's Drag Race. She said that the question-and-answer session after the film was more interesting than the film itself, and that the film had been made at request of Trixie Mattel's boyfriend.
There were four shorts series that I would have liked to see: "Going Solo", "This Is America", "Episodic 1, Finding Your Pack", and "Animation for Adults", but we can't get to everything. J had planned to see the "Animation for Adults" shorts series, but decided to head home to get to sleep earlier.
Notes to myself:
SIFF statistics: 48 films (all features), 48 time slots, four parties. (I've seen six J missed, and she's seen six features and six shorts that I missed, counting today's three features, so our feature counts match once again.)