Year-end Tour
Monday.January 2.2012 at 11:50 pm 5 comments
Happy New Year, guys!
It’s a new year and a new breeze floats upon the clouds.
To celebrate New Years Eve I went and caught the 7:30 showing of The Muppets down at Silver City. I couldn’t decide between ‘New Years Eve’ and ‘The Muppets’, but since I was already spending New Years Eve alone I didn’t want to watch New Years Eve alone.
The movie was great.
As I walked out of the theatre to the bus stop, I had the option of having the C93 or the 401 take me home. The C93 would only take nine-ish minutes but wouldn’t leave for another thirty, while it would take the 401 about 39 minutes to get to more or less the same place. I decided to take the 401.
Part of the choice was the illusion of progress, yes. Sitting in a moving vehicle for half an hour feels more productive than sitting in one that isn’t. But mostly it was because the 401 was the scenic route. I hadn’t realized this before, really, but the 401 goes pretty close to all the places that I go on a regular basis.
As it drove along No. 5 I remembered the church and all the stuff that’s happened there and the friends I’ve made.
As it ran up the length of the mall I remembered all the hours I spent in the food court typing away at my stories.
And, as I stepped off the bus on the far fringes of Steveston Village, I took a long wistful glance towards the pier and remembered looking out at the waterfront with my friends.
It was nice. Sort of like a year-end tour. I didn’t even plug in my headphones.
(Yeah, I only go to three places, shut up.)
When I got home I had enough time to watch Tangled and catch the exciting part of the delayed West-Coast airing of the East-Coast New Year’s Rockin’ Eve countdown.
Plus, just now, I just watched that new episode of Sherlock. So I’m pretty happy.
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lthea | Tuesday.January 3.2012 at 9:56 am
Well, there are worse ways to spend New Years. As for the new episode of Sherlock, yes, I watched that too. It was awesome, definitely improves the mood.
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Megan | Tuesday.January 3.2012 at 9:54 pm
+1 on the Sherlock episode. the jury is still out for me… I don’t know whether it’s ridiculously good, or ridiculously cheesy.
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lthea | Wednesday.January 4.2012 at 5:49 pm
Well, cheesy can also be good.
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VJM | Thursday.January 5.2012 at 2:03 pm
Oh a discussion! I love it when these happen!
I fall into the camp of having really enjoyed the episode and found it interesting that they decided to go off-book for the last two-thirds.
One of the things I liked about the episode was that it showed Sherlock as being more fallibly human than we’ve ever seen him. We see him eat, we see him drink, we see him wrapped in a bed sheet from a bed he had presumably been sleeping in the night before. When he is drugged he passes out, and he bleeds when he’s punched. Last season he didn’t eat, he didn’t drink; even the location of his bedroom isn’t shown until this episode.
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lthea | Wednesday.January 11.2012 at 12:30 pm
That episode subconsciously made me want to buy a periodic table for my wall. In my defense, it is useful.