the return of riggety-jig

good weekend. PoA for the second time on friday, and ( in case it's still a spoiler )

. ran into a friend from college in line, which was v. strange. well -- saw him in line, was sure it was someone i knew, saw him being sure i was someone he knew, and then in the theater when he was walking past our row, i called the name of the person i was sure he was, and he turned back, and we were both right. trippy, man. senior when i was a freshman, haven't seen him since (i think) he graduated -- actually since the end-of-year party at which i got alarmingly drunk on mixed liquors and had to be taken home and put to bed in my (out of town) roommate's bottom bunk. anyway. so, moderate blast from the past. (for esti626 and wholenother's benefit, this was P. McF. did you know him? tall. skinny. redhead.)

saturday, drove up to new york with cmshaw and darthrami to meet up with bethbethbeth and gaeta and ellen_fremedon and idlerat and lolaraincoat and fishwhistle (mr. raincoat -- but you've got to be impressed that i remembered the LJ name) and eighty-seven thousand other people to see PoA in IMAX-y splendor. which was lovely. highlight of the afternoon, i think:

girl behind me: you're wearing a choir robe.
me (wearing MA gown): it's actually a graduation robe, but yes, i am.
girl behind me: oh. yeah, my graduation robe was white, so i guess it wouldn't have worked as well.
me (internally): oh, sweetie.

(for our international readers who may not be aware -- white graduation robes are most typically worn by girls graduating from high school. if, that is, the school feels the need to dress the boys and the girls differently.)

came home with ellen_fremedon in tow, who is or should be now apartment-hunting. go, ellen, go! and am at work, being as useful as ever. wheeee!

oh! and the thing i meant to say was --

(i suppose it's ironic that i made the whole previous post and forgot to mention the whole thing that had caused me to post in the first place, consider what the thing was. urk.)

so, ronald reagan: still dead. all reagan-related issues aside, i suspect this will be a shot in the arm for the W campaign, which makes me annoyed.

the george w. bush re-election campaign is all republican campaigns of any sort are hereby barred from exhorting anyone to win anything "for the gipper".

ELLEN

i don't know where you are, etc. but i'm stuck here, and will be back as soon as i can.