August 26, 2007

  • Omni night tonight.  Yay.

    Worked today.  After work, Shari, Jenn, and Steve came by to watch evening omni with me; and Amanda (Chow) and Roland stayed too; Jane was also there since she was doing omni; and Anna called and said she'd arrive at science world in time for the show.  Shari arrived at about 5:30 and went into science world to bum around till I got off.  She finally got her new cellphone, and ordered her new laptop and her new 4-gig ipod nano, which arrived early.  Jenn and Steve got there around 6:45 or so.  Jane had to work the snack lab, so she couldn't join us for most of the night.  The rest of us all went to BK to get food (I didn't get anything b/c I was still full from a late lunch), but I got Jane her chicken fingers and Chelsea her poutine.  Jenn bought herself a Nelson figure from BK so now she and Steve both have one.  lol.  We got back, and Roland had to go home, so the rest of us went up via the ramp and watched Pulse.  Anna got there just as we were heading up, but she skipped the first movie to hang out with Jane, and then came upstairs with Tuan during the intermission to watch the second movie with us.  I've seen pulse before, but it was entertaining enough.  It was very whimsical, and I think they translated a lot of what Pulse does to the visuals very well, and I like how they profiled a lot of these rythm musicians from all over the world like africa, india, japan's koto drummers, first nations, etc.  I liked how they did the transitions between segments too, and the implicit emphasis they put on the unity of mankind through music; they did lots of visual parallels between the dances and the music of africa and the "tribes" of the city in New York, etc.

    Second movie was Mummies.  It was informative, but not deeply so; although it did link up well with the Egypt documentaries I've been watching on Discovery.  The documentary was one about Queen Hatshepsut, daughter of Pharaoh Tutmosis/Thutmose I, wife/half-sister/successor to Tutmosis/Thutmose II, being erased from history by her son Tutmosis/Thutmose III for his son Amenhotep II, and her mummy being lost for thousands of years and rediscovered recently after a long identification quest by Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass, who briefly appeared in this film with Hatshepsut and the giant temple she built of Deir el-Bahri, and also about his quest to find her mummy in the tombs of the Valley of the Kings.  The second documentary I saw on Discovery was the one about Champoleon's decryption of the Rosetta Stone in the 1800's and his discoveries about ancient egyptian beliefs about the afterlife and discoveries in the Valley of the Kings.  The third was the one about the desert glass in the Libyan and Egyptian desert from an ancient airburst exploded meteorite/asteroid and how they used to use that for jewels in ancient egypt, as in King Tut's gem.

    Thereafter, we came out of the movie; Jane and Tuan left, Amanda and Anna bussed home; I drove Shari home, and Jenn and Steve went together.  I was originally going to go out with Jenn and Steve afterwards for food at the Old Spaghetti Factory, but I was too tired, like I usually am after omni on Saturdays from being in the habit of staying up late weeknights and having to work early on Saturday; plus I didn't want Shari skytraining home all the way to Surrey at night and having to walk home (even though she said her mom would have picked her up at the station).  All in all, the night was pretty enjoyable.  I think Jenn and Steve and Shari got along quite well, as did they with the GS'ers, they even struck up short conversation.  The drive home was entertaining, as usual when driving Shari home.

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    Recent updates/highlights from this week:
    -Last Wednesday, watching Simpsons The Movie with Shari at metro
    -Last Saturday, staying after work during omni, then going for all-you-can-eat sushi with Amanda, Jessica, Jane, Tuan, and Tuan's friend; thereafter seeing Rush Hour 3 at Silvercity Riverport
    -Wednesday, going out for dinner at the Banana Leaf on Broadway near the McDonalds with Camille, Shari, and Ashley Wright!  Haven't seen Ashley in many a year.
    -Thursday, Amanda Chow's Gift Shop "Thanks for a great summer" dinner at Steamworks.  Attending: Amanda, Jessica, Anna, Ryan, Roland, Roland's girlfriend Connie, Michelle (our new Assistant Manager), me.  Roland and Connie left afterwards and Jessica went with them.  Amanda, Anna, Ryan, and I went for a walk from Steamworks afterwards through Downtown, down Robson, back up Robson, then down all the way back to Science World.  We went for BBT again after at Dragon Ball and stayed till late (I had a "Pudding Slush with Ice Cream blended in and Pearls"), after which I drove everyone back to the Science World parking lot where they each disembarked.
    -Friday, nothing... I went shopping and got some new clothes for the Fall, and some supplies, and some new compact fluorescent light bulbs.  Went from lougheed to coquitlam mall to pick up this new black sweatshirt/jacket at bootlegger there.  Ran into Jeannette from my department on my way out in front of the H&M, chatted for a while, reminisced about the philosophy department, talked about theses defences, etc.  Went home.  Also redid some of the LED lighting in my room to illuminate the new display case.  Shari called me unexpectedly at about 9:55pm to see about Omni today, and we talked for about an hour until 11.  That was the highlight of my day.
    -Saturday...today.

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    I was just reminded by Andrew Ling's Facebook what day it was today (August 25th).   It's been five years.  I really don't know what that means to me anymore... I spent a lot of time end energy moving on, and I reached acceptance long ago.  Andrew visited Christina's grave today, he posted a picture of the stone on his Facebook note, but it looks like he took it pretty well.  September 2nd 1981 - August 25th, 2002.  I really feel for him; I know what I went through even with what I had (granted all those unresolved issues with her), he had it a hundred times worse given the long 3-year relationship they were in.  I wished him well in a comment on his note.

    I'd wish Christina well too, if I knew she'd accept my wish, whatever that means and for whatever that's worth.