August 6, 2008

• Slight Reprieves

  Sunday 3 August - 16.5 hour shift; 2:30pm-7am.  Saw something on the drive to work, passing by PNE that ended up being a great part of Monday evening (hereafter the joke to be known as my 'Muffin Story').  The shift: Lindsay C got an embarrassing story to tell.  Andre didn't.  Shauna had a fun time.  Daniel got groped.  I had to deal with technical issues involving splitters, projectors, plasma screens, and a really long cable - for over 2 hrs.   I will think twice about sitting on the benches and toilet seats at science world in the future.  lol.

  Monday 4 August - got the day off work since I was already working till 7am, got home at around 8:30 or 9... slept till afternoon.  Evening, dinner with GS'ers plus Brian Alfonso at downtown Cactus Club.  Sad: Amanda C's leaving the GS.  Fun:  Brian, Roland, Amanda and I went for really good bbt after at Kingsway Bubble World.   Hopefully Kayaking with them sometime soon in the next week or so.  Dropped them home (Brian at home, Roland at SW, Amanda at home) - for the first time in a very long time, had a nice long laugh that I could barely stop; I was telling Amanda my Muffin Story just before dropping her off - apparantly it was funny enough to give us both a great ab workout after the filling bbt/bbt food/Cactus Club food.  I needed that nice long laugh, even though it was giving me a headache and was somewhat dangerous considering I was driving, lol.

  Tuesday 5 August - worked all day; was five mins late because i had to wait for the fire inspection who didn't come until 9:10am.  The day was nothing special, busy, hectic.  After work was plenty enjoyable, geeking out at The Dark Knight (finally!) with Ashley, Dennis, and Dylan (newbie from Cambridgeshire who won't be there for too much longer) all from WS.  Yes, a band of geeks, a car with fun music, Old Spaghetti Factory, Imax Batman (waaay too close... dammit people lining up early.... third or fourth row from front... ow, eyes).

  Bravo Heath Ledger, alas, there will be no more of his Joker.  Tho he did need more maniacal laughter ; ).  I still hate the new batsuit; horrible... even in both iterations in this movie.  The ending speech was awesome, and the writing was solid, with strong themes of ethics, duty, heroism, teleology, and villiany.

  These few moments have been much needed after all the harsh stress, daily friction, and the sadness of the last while.

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