Weekend Update
Aug. 22nd, 2004 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayWhat I spent my weekend on:
Got comics on Saturday, for the first time on about a month. $275, gah! And that was after putting a bunch of stuff back on the shelf! There are *way* too many good books out there!
Saturday night, stayed in with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kestrell and watched TV. Started out with "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein". Well, it certainly had more of her book in it than any *other* version. That is particularly faint praise, of course. Some scenes and bits of dialogue were clearly recognizable -- which only made the changes to charcters and themes more irksome. Oh well, it probably counts as homework for Kes, at least.
After that, we saw a classic comedy neither of us had previously seen, "You Can't Take It With You". A young Jimmy Stewart is romancing the daughter of a very eccentric family (whose patriarch is played by Lionel Barrymore), but worries that his blue-blood parents will not approve of the match. WONDERFUL movie! Funny and endearing, and surprisingly contemporary in its themes and social views. It didn't hurt that Kes & I recognized aspects of ourselves in the romantic parts :-) Very Highly Recommended.
Today, Kes and I went out to the Aquarium, on a quest for a lobster that she could get autographed by Charles Stross at Worldcon. That particular quest failed, but we had a good time in the aquarium itself, seeing many jellyfish, penguins, turtles, and hermit crabs. I even got Kes to hold a hermit crab briefly :-)
Spent much of this evening looking through the draft program for Worldcon, and making a first cut at *my* 'program'. The first cut has me in an average of 2.5 places at any given time. Presumably I'll be able to cut it down some once I see a program that actually lists the panel participants. The lack of that info is the most frustrating thing about the draft program -- especially the several dozen entries that say "Reading", but give no author. Grump.
Got comics on Saturday, for the first time on about a month. $275, gah! And that was after putting a bunch of stuff back on the shelf! There are *way* too many good books out there!
Saturday night, stayed in with
kestrell and watched TV. Started out with "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein". Well, it certainly had more of her book in it than any *other* version. That is particularly faint praise, of course. Some scenes and bits of dialogue were clearly recognizable -- which only made the changes to charcters and themes more irksome. Oh well, it probably counts as homework for Kes, at least.After that, we saw a classic comedy neither of us had previously seen, "You Can't Take It With You". A young Jimmy Stewart is romancing the daughter of a very eccentric family (whose patriarch is played by Lionel Barrymore), but worries that his blue-blood parents will not approve of the match. WONDERFUL movie! Funny and endearing, and surprisingly contemporary in its themes and social views. It didn't hurt that Kes & I recognized aspects of ourselves in the romantic parts :-) Very Highly Recommended.
Today, Kes and I went out to the Aquarium, on a quest for a lobster that she could get autographed by Charles Stross at Worldcon. That particular quest failed, but we had a good time in the aquarium itself, seeing many jellyfish, penguins, turtles, and hermit crabs. I even got Kes to hold a hermit crab briefly :-)
Spent much of this evening looking through the draft program for Worldcon, and making a first cut at *my* 'program'. The first cut has me in an average of 2.5 places at any given time. Presumably I'll be able to cut it down some once I see a program that actually lists the panel participants. The lack of that info is the most frustrating thing about the draft program -- especially the several dozen entries that say "Reading", but give no author. Grump.
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Date: 2004-08-24 12:24 am (UTC)