May 24, 2008

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  Tues 20th - Went and saw Narnia: Prince Caspian with Jane, Richard, Amanda L at Scotiabank Theatre.  I liked it better than the first film, but felt it suffered from the "too many endings" syndrome, where you keep thinking the movie's going to end, but it goes on...  Haven't read any of the sequel books so I'm not sure whether the book was this way too.

  Thurs 22nd - City of Vancouver False Creek Development Boardroom event in afternoon (I started 3pm, was there till 8pm).  There were about 70 attendees, so I spent the entire afternoon running back and forth between Info and the Boardroom ferrying guests there since no one seemed to be able to find the way themselves.  After, went for coffee at Waves on Commercial with Jane and Elissa.  The new asian barista there was kinda cute, and talkative about the specialty tea I had, but she was also quite tall... Maybe I'll talk to her more if she's there next time I go.  There were also several other attractive girls there at the time, but they were all hunched over computers with their coffee, and Jane and Elissa were for some reason so giggly that we had to go sit outside for them to calm down... which they didn't.  lol.

  Fri 23rd (today) - Work in the GS.  Stressful and tiring, wasn't a moment to rest.  Lots of school groups there today, though the kids on the whole were pretty nice and well-behaved.  I spent the morning upstairs helping Megan on Concession, helping her improve her cotton candy skills, but it was also the time when all the kids were inside and the entire morning and early afternoon was super-busy up there.  I came back down to the GS briefly, but had to go upstairs again to cover Megan's break.  There were issues with the Capp machine, and then with the Concession printer.  Then I got back downstairs and it was busy straight through Zainab's break with loads of kids who were coming out from SW by then.  Long lines at both tills with Michelle and me there... we stood there processing kids for about an hour even after Zainab came back, and then Michelle had to go for her break and Zainab right away after I finished the huge line of kids asked me to go refill pop.  I wasn't happy but sucked it up, went and did that until Michelle came back (this is when the concession printer issue came up).  Anyway, I didn't get to go on my break until 3:45, but couldn't even eat then - had to go upstairs and talk to Christine about the sudden changes in scheduling that had popped up...  Christine had some issues with the West Van aftergrad event  that suddenly popped up that she had to deal with so I didn't actually get to talk to her about what I needed to until I only had less than half an hour of my break left... 4:10pm or so.

  Anyway, yeah, changes in plans with my shifts... I had originally been planning on doing Dim Sum with the GS people tomorrow morning and perhaps stamps with Jane after but then I learned suddenly yesterday that my morning event on Saturday was suddenly becoming a 10:30am-4pm shift which precluded any dim sum or early afternoon stamps from happening.  Granted, I don't actually need any more stamps, but there had been talk of possibly going to the zoo with the White Spot people.  That wouldn't have happened either because Richard and Amanda don't get off till 3 anyway.  I still wasn't too happy with this last-minute change, and that I would have to stay for the whole event now only to sit around at info and collect tickets at the end.  And then there was the issue of the 7th, on which date I would be away (and I'd told Christine), but which I had been scheduled for a shift.  That was alright, though, Christine said she'd take care of that.  And the Oreo event on the 1st, for which I'm also scheduled for from 10am-6pm (but which Ann will probably be able to do - I saw her at the end of my shift today as she was coming in to do Omni) - right after the 31st, for which I'll be here from 10:30pm to very likely 7 or 8am on Sunday the 1st.  And the fact that I also have to work a morning boardroom event on the 31st, less than ten hours before the excrutiating West Van Grad event that night.  Oh well.  Monkey wrenches thrown in the works.

  Anyway, the long day at work finally ended and I got to leave... the rest of the evening was very enjoyable.  I drove out to Guildford to see the 7:30pm showing of Indy 4 with Shari.  The movie went for about two and a half hours until near 10pm, but to my surprise I was much less tired by the end than I was at the beginning.  It was nice to see a new Indy movie, tho there were definitely many things they could have done better.  I still liked it.  Shari enjoyed it with no complaints too.   We went for coffee and donuts at Tim Horton's after, which was just what I needed to cap off the evening.

  Oh... and about the movie.  Shia LaBeouf is all well and good, and I
  enjoy watching him from time to time as an actor, but really... getting
  Shia overload here.  He's in so many movies lately, often playing
  somewhat similar characters, and he always looks the same nomatter how his character is dressed (geez, at least change up his hair or something!).  It would kinda kill the franchise for me
  if future Indy films became
  just another vehicle for Shia, and he became the star with Harrison
  Ford's Indy being secondary.  It's getting to the point where I don't
  see Shia's characters anymore... I just see Shia everywhere, especially
  in this film.  That's not the case with Harrison Ford - he *made* Indy
  iconic, so when he's Indy he's Indy.  When he's playing a different
  character in a different franchise - say Han Solo - he's that other
  character.  Same with Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard or Professor
  Xavier.  But I seriously can't say it enough that we're getting to the Shia overload point where when he's in a
  film, you just see Shia LaBeouf rather than the character he's playing. 

  I'm *so* glad he didn't put on the hat at the end... that would have totally ruined the end for me - having Harrison Ford snatch it back at the last moment pulled the ending back from the brink.

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