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I did a very unusual thing this past weekend and actually posted about my activities as the weekend went along—usually I just wait until Monday to catch up on my weekend here. But! Not only was this a three-day weekend due to the Labor Day holiday, but my weekend was wildly eventful, even by three-day weekend standards, even by
my typical standards.
So, I
posted on Saturday, mostly about the "Through the Looking Glass" Seattle Archetecture Tour I went on with Alexia, also briefly touching on having had a Movie Night next door at her place the night before, Friday night.
I didn't post on Sunday, honestly just because I was otherwise so insanely busy socializing that day. I thus I
posted yesterday (Monday) about all that I did on Sunday: spending the morning on the tagging, notating and captioning all of the photos from Saturday; meeting Laney for a movie; having a post-movie Happy Hour picnic at the newly renovated Rainier Square public terrace; meeting with Lynn and Zephyr and their gamer friend David for dinner at Dough Zone; taking a half-hour tour of the rooftop deck of the 40th-floor rooftop terrace at Premiere on Pine, where David happens to live; going with Lynn to the PAX West event "The Lavender Catwalk: A Queer Cosplay Runway!" at the Seattle Convention Center Summit building; and finally coming home after that and writing my movie review.
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I barely got that post written and posted by 11:00 a.m. yesterday, at which point I barely had one hour to get ready, while also doing laundry, before meeting Laney at the Braeburn Condos theater downstairs in the West Building.
This does mean, thanks to my planning ahead with those other posts over the weekend, I have far less to catch you up on today. My major social engagement yesterday was just that: a double feature with Laney in the theater. We were going to watch
Repo Man and
The Nice Guys, but decided to put that off in favor of a couple of movies that came up in conversation Sunday afternoon, discovering she had never seen either of them:
Booksmart, which remains criminally under-watched and underrated; and
Lady Bird, which is rightfully celebrated and often cited as part of Greta Gerwig's relatively small but still consistently excellent filmography as a director.
Laney very much enjoyed both movies. There was a lot more laughs with
Booksmart, and a lot more poignancy—but still some good laughs—with
Lady Bird.
I had some technical issues at first with
Booksmart, constantly buffering every single second after I rented it on Prime Video. As usual I had to take the laptop out into the kitchen where it would better pick up the public wifi. I tried all sorts of things to fix it for several minutes, to no avail, and then Laney suggested I just restart the laptop. I did that, and it totally fixed it! No issues at all after that. What a relief.
Due to some chatting and then the technical difficulty delay, the first movie didn't get started until after 12:30. We had a bathroom break between movies, and chatted about the movies for a bit afterward. By the time Laney was leaving, it was probably around 4:45, and Shobhit was already gone for his 5-9pm work shift.
I spent most of the rest of the evening hanging out by myself, dinking around online, listening to music, and I watched a Todd Barry comedy special on YouTube. At Shobhit's request over text, I had some leftovers from last Tuesday's dinner with Harshal and Devyani heated up for him, along with a couple of kulchi flatbreads from the freezer, ready to eat when he got home. I also had Sunday night's episode of
Winning Time queued up to watch, so we did that right before I finally went to bed.
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[posted 12:35]
