thebitterguy

• 17:23 Nice dinner with the wife before heading downtown for part two in the Steven McHattie film festival. #
• 22:33 Saw Pontypool tonight. Possibly the best movie with Steven McHattie in it I'll see this weekend. #

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The fucking Cineplex Odeon website, which promises to let me print out my confirmation for my tickets, but seems to have a server with a severe case of epilepsy.

This God Damned eight year old PC running Windows 98 veerrrrryyy slooooooowly.

• 17:12 Done for the day, but I think I will skip kickboxing tonight. #
• 22:22 Anyone know a way to get stuff from Think Geek to Canadia without being slapped with the fresh trout of insane shipping costs? #
• 07:26 At midnight, all the d-bags and hipsterhuman crew went out and caught a midnight screening of Watchmen. Some of us had to work today. #
• 11:47 John Tory lost his second bid for a seat and will decide his future today. Apparently the constituents objected to a parachute candidate. #
• 11:49 Worst case scenario, we end up with another slash and burn neo-con, or worse someone who makes Mike Harris look like Ed Broadbent as premier #
• 13:21 Any of my T-dot peeps thinking of seeing Pontypool at the Bloor tomorrow? #

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Just realized that last poll should have included an option for "already seen it" or summat.

Halfway done the workday. Then the Stephen McHattie film festival begins!

Just out of curiosity, you see. Plus, I've got polls, might as well use 'em.

[Poll #1360259]

• 15:37 It's silly how sore my calves are right now. #
• 15:40 So #BSG, #Dollhouse and #Heroes all made me fall asleep this week. Good thing we gave up on #Teminator, or I'd be in a fucking coma now. #
• 23:05 Wait, Square Root Day? How does that work? Isn't it "Multiplication day"? and will happen again September 1? #

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The LJ friends list is barred at work (although looking at individual LJs is possible). I'm also verboten from looking at my iPhone at work. I mostly follow that.

So, yeah, I don't get to keep up with everyone here as well as I'd like. I catch glimpses and occasional tweets, but it's making me feel distanced from everyone.

And I do adore each and every one of you.

In less maudlin news, I'm trying the fitness classes at work. I've been doing the kickboxing class for a few weeks, and yesterday I tried the Boot Camp class.

It doesn't remind me much of actual boot camp, but that is only a good thing.

But now, the next day is turning out to not be fun. My calves (calfs?) are so very, very sore.

Seriously, going down stairs is actually very, very painful. Going up, not so much.

• 20:52 This is the worst TAR challenge ever. #

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Enjoyable weekend. Cynra & I attended Seedy Saturday, which was... not remotely as fun as it's been previously.

While I have joked about it being wall to wall hippies before, this time it was literally true. The room was packed full. I don't know if it was a victim of success, an improperly used new venue, or poor planning, but it was way too full.

Cynra got some seeds and some seedlings and catnip. More on the catnip later. I managed to see anidada and her little one as well as Cats & sassy_fae for very brief stretches. I was pretty cranky by that point, as I was slowly braising in my coat.




Then, we headed downtown to pick up our tickets for The Wright Stuff, the showing of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz hosted by Edgar Wright. He took a picture of the crowd at the end. You can't see me too well, but I think I'm in there somewhere.

I love the guy in the front row who appears to be in Glabro form.

We grabbed dinner at the Pauper's Pub first. I headed out to get our spot in line while Cynra finished her dinner (and, yes, I am not thrilled by the fact I now go by the name "eight toes"). We were met by Ali & hazyone101 and we all headed in for the party.

It was a load of fun. He had some trailers in there too, including Robocop, a neat Lee Marvin film called Prime Cut, and Hard Target (was it as bad as I remember? Because I remember it making me think that this new Chinese guy wasn't all he was cracked up to be). He also showed the trailer for Don't, which remains great.

I kibbitzed with the guys from the Silver Snail during all that, which was a shock as they were friendly, which is not my general experience with that venue.

Wright also said he was proud of Mike Myers for taking a chance on The Love Guru. Isn't that nice.

It went late. The Q&A finished well after midnight, and Cynra & I got home later. I grabbed a slice of pizza at the Pizza Pizza at Queen & Bathurst, getting accosted by hawt drunk teenz. "You seem very serious, sir" are probably the most hurtful words ever said to me by a girl in a shimmery shirt.

This morning was breakfast with some friends, and then home for some laundry and relaxation.

I got Fight Club out of the library. She's watching it, oh yes. I also got a book called The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, which I will read at work. OH, NO REASON.

• 20:53 Taco Fried Rice? I would go so far as to say a success. #
• 00:32 Oh, God, Transformers is on. WHY DID I WATCH IT?! #

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