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It's Tuesday and I had no plans last night, so you know what that means! I have very little to report on today!
Okay, well. I suppose I could mention that I
did have plans yesterday, but Laney had to cancel because she was feeling slightly under the weather. We were going to see
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and then for a brief moment I was still going to go by myself, but then I saw the score on MetaCritic: 41. Yikes. Clearly that would have been a waste of time anyway.
Then I listened to the latest episode of
The Big Picture podcast this morning, and these are the things Sean and Amanda had to say—I even wrote them down and texted them to Laney this morning:
"A fiasco"
"Dead on arrival"
"It's like a dead pigeon. It never takes off"
They also said that Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell are two great performers who have zero chemistry together.
I kind of feel like we dodged a bullet with that one. I'm a little bummed that I'm seeing fewer movies per week on average than I used to, but I am also totally good with actively avoiding the ones I already know I won't like. The weekend before this past weekend, we saw three movies in as many days in a row; had we gone to the movie last night, that would have been the same for me Laney did not join me for the movie I saw on Sunday). I'd have happily just gone to see something else last night instead, but there just wasn't anything good to choose from that I hadn't already seen.
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I just watched a movie at home with Shobhit instead, and it happened really quite at random. Shobhit had made dinner, both a potato & bell pepper dish and a lentil & black bean dish; he waited to make scratch-made parathas once I got home. And actually we didn't eat dinner until after we took a walk together, downtown, to my office and back. I had forgotten to grab the pints of sample ice cream Noah said I should take home when I left work the first time, and Shobhit still had some steps to catch up on. So here we killed two birds with one stone.
It was roughly 6:30 when we went on this walk, because Shobhit also had a virtual acting class he attended between 5:00 and 6:00. I was curious to see if Skinner Concourse, the underground tunnel, was open at this time; it was not. Well, the entrance through 2 Union Square wasn't, anyway. We did make it through the Convention Center, but then the 2 Union Square lobby was closed except for key card access, which I don't have there. The PCC Corner Market store is open until 7:00, and we did get to the office by then; I suspect we might have been able to go through the tunnel the opposite direction before 7:00, but we didn't bother to find out and just walked back up Union and then over to Pike via the turn under Freeway Park and the Convention Center instead.
Anyway that gives Shobhit his first Social Review point for the fall season. He'll be thrilled.
We're watching several shows right now, but none release on Mondays. So we went to the Xfinity guide to see what was on, and when we saw
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World near the beginning, I said: "That's actually a pretty fun movie." I couldn't rewind the movie playing live on one of the multiple HBO channels we have in our cable package, but I was able simply to open the HBO Max app and start it from there.
I hadn't seen it since I saw it in theaters 15 years ago, as far as I can tell, but it has
held up incredible well. I laughed and laughed, and had a blast watching it. Shobhit laughed only a few times, once pretty hard, but I think he might have laughed more had he fully engaged with it from the start—but he is fully addicted to Tetris these days and is constantly looking at his phone instead of at the TV. Whatever. I had a great time watchin it! It made for a very fun evening actually.
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[posted 12:32pm]
