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[austin_tycho]

I never post on the weekends anymore, do I? Oh well. Friday we went out to dine with Gordon, who'd just come back from the Santa Fe/Las Alamos area with tales of IBM politics and intrigue. Saturday was D&D, which was challenging. We missed some clues, and Eric had to drag us back and point out some things. He felt like he'd failed, and after dissecting it later I think it's just a difference in story-telling styles. We decided it might be a result of him being a lot more used to computer adventure games than the rest of us, which have their own narrative style and pacing. So he wasn't a bad DM, nor were we especially stupid- at least the way I'm looking at it. We decided to go hit a movie after that, and saw Superman.

I was irrationally enraged that they used a lot of the same music from the '78 version, as if that defines Superman somehow. I don't know, part of it was that we'd played it in band so I'd already heard it about a bazillion times. Plus there were a whole bunch of short parodies shown before the movie the way Alamo does that, and I got to hear it a dozen more times in those. Plus, the main theme and the love theme are just so cheesy and, I dunno, seventies sounding that it stuck out in the score which was otherwise quite serviceable. There were also plot holes and the like, but I thought Kevin Spacey was a great Lex Luthor, and whoever that new guy is who played Superman was really cute. I always thought Christopher Reeve was a cold, hatchet-faced alien-looking guy, and never warmed up to him (until Noises Off, where he played a whole different kind of character). So, not the best movie evar, but good enough for a summer movie.

Yesterday I went to Phil's and taught a mead-making class. Phil was the only person actually making mead, but 4 other people watched and took notes. It seemed to go well. After that, we just had the Dedicant class there which was a long one- going through our ritual 'template' step by step, describing everything that goes on, why, how to do it, and all that. I just about got a sore throat from talking so much, and thought it was getting boring but both the new Dedicants thanked me and said it was really interesting to know the whys and wherefores of it all. Most of us went to Red Lobster after (that lobster tank just disturbs me) and it was chicken for me as usual. Then Eric and I just chilled out for the rest of the evening.

Today has been a little straightening up, and I have physical therapy here in an hour. I don't think I'll need to keep going the whole 8 sessions, so I may see if I can thin them out a bit, especially at thirty bucks a pop.

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[austingoddess.livejournal.com]

Noises Off is pretty silly, but taken one actor at a time it rocks. Chris' face when he get yelled at about the groceries...when he looks like a child whose toy has been taken away and he thinks you suck, just before he turns around to head back to the office, kills me everytime.