Vacation's over...
Oct. 20th, 2001 02:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI had a cool 21 hours off and blew about a third of it getting some shuteye. Another several hours were spent taking care of some eBay purchases (I'm just used to the fact, now, that Galina buys stuff there on a regular basis for resale), and doing the sales tax return.
I exchanged calls with Feht; he was still in crunch mode, and will remain there until Sunday. I finally got in touch with Lee on AIM and we arranged to meet at the Borders books near her apartment. She took me out to a new Japanese place, called Taiko, on Westheimer. While Lee stuck to the more traditional cooked food, I opted for an octopus salad, a couple of rolls (dynamite and peppered tuna) and a selection of ordinary tuna, yellowtail, sea bass, and a couple of servings of flying fish roe. I thought it was very good, and probably overate a little.
Lee and I chatted for a while, and then realized that we'd be late for the movie we'd planned to see, Iron Monkey, a kung-fu flick that's apparently quite popular. We arrived at the theater a few minutes late for that film, however, and settled for a couple of tickets to Bandits, starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. A couple of minor spoilers follow.
I fidgeted through most of the film, although I have to admit there were times I laughed, and wondered why. The ending is sappy (something with which I have no problem) and appears well crafted, but it doesn't take too much imagination to think of the many holes in what we are asked to believe. The closest analogy I can think of here is a chess game where one side appears to win through a series of bold, dramatic moves, but where the beauty of the combination is marred by sloppy, indifferent defense.
Just as with Willis' Unbreakable, this film had a very interesting premise (here, a seemingly stable relationship involving two men and a woman) that is set up but then not allowed to play out to any significant extent in the story. On the other hand, Thornton does an excellent job of depicting a hypochondriac.
The film let out around 12:30 am. I drove Natalie back to the Borders, where she picked up her car. I drove directly to work, arriving just about in time for the start of this shift. In my excitement, when I left the house, I forgot the power supply for my laptop, but that's no big deal, as I wasn't going to do the cam tonight, anyway. (Still, I have a couple of files I could be reviewing while I've got the headphones on and during breaks, and I'll be working without recourse to my glossaries. Oh, well.)
Mark and I are here until 9:30 am, and then we're off until midnight tomorrow, when our last shift (for this trip) kicks off.
Cheers...
I exchanged calls with Feht; he was still in crunch mode, and will remain there until Sunday. I finally got in touch with Lee on AIM and we arranged to meet at the Borders books near her apartment. She took me out to a new Japanese place, called Taiko, on Westheimer. While Lee stuck to the more traditional cooked food, I opted for an octopus salad, a couple of rolls (dynamite and peppered tuna) and a selection of ordinary tuna, yellowtail, sea bass, and a couple of servings of flying fish roe. I thought it was very good, and probably overate a little.
Lee and I chatted for a while, and then realized that we'd be late for the movie we'd planned to see, Iron Monkey, a kung-fu flick that's apparently quite popular. We arrived at the theater a few minutes late for that film, however, and settled for a couple of tickets to Bandits, starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. A couple of minor spoilers follow.
I fidgeted through most of the film, although I have to admit there were times I laughed, and wondered why. The ending is sappy (something with which I have no problem) and appears well crafted, but it doesn't take too much imagination to think of the many holes in what we are asked to believe. The closest analogy I can think of here is a chess game where one side appears to win through a series of bold, dramatic moves, but where the beauty of the combination is marred by sloppy, indifferent defense.
Just as with Willis' Unbreakable, this film had a very interesting premise (here, a seemingly stable relationship involving two men and a woman) that is set up but then not allowed to play out to any significant extent in the story. On the other hand, Thornton does an excellent job of depicting a hypochondriac.
The film let out around 12:30 am. I drove Natalie back to the Borders, where she picked up her car. I drove directly to work, arriving just about in time for the start of this shift. In my excitement, when I left the house, I forgot the power supply for my laptop, but that's no big deal, as I wasn't going to do the cam tonight, anyway. (Still, I have a couple of files I could be reviewing while I've got the headphones on and during breaks, and I'll be working without recourse to my glossaries. Oh, well.)
Mark and I are here until 9:30 am, and then we're off until midnight tomorrow, when our last shift (for this trip) kicks off.
Cheers...
