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10,080 minutes - how do you measure a week in the 'burgh?
Today I got up "early", as in 10am eastern, which is 7am western, and I went to Bruegger's to meet up with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jcreed, who is just as awesome as he ever is. I got him a "Reed 7" Mariners shirt a bit ago because every time Jeremy Reed does something cool (he's the rookie centerfielder for the Mariners) they put up "J-REED!" on the big board and it ALWAYS reminds me of Jason. :)
Anyway, Jason and I talked for ages and had bagels, and after a while decided to come back here. Benoit was talking about going and getting a train game, so we went to Games Unlimited, and I convinced him to get British Rails. (BTW, vkaplan apparently works at GU now, which was a bit odd, but fortunately she seems to have forgotten me, so that's good.) We came back here and played British Rails for a few hours -- it was a really close game, and usual I totally would have won if not for the board. (No, really. I had 188 in money, all the cities connected, and contracts to deliver for 33 and 43, and then I got hit with both War Tax and several train-movement-limiters AND a few blown out bridges, etc.) Jason ended up winning -- though here's the funny part -- I was up to 248 cash, and he used my rail to deliver a contract, bringing him up to 255 cash, but he had to pay me 4, so we ended the game with him having 251 and me 252, but it was his turn, so he won. Whee.
After that, I called some people, and Charlie and I walked down the hill to the theater, where we met up withkfcrawford and mj2q and saw the movie version of Rent. My only real nitpick is that Idina Menzel played Maureen. I dunno, she's a great stage actress and all, but her face doesn't do so well on screen, nor do I think a lot of her movement translates over right. I know they wanted to get a lot of the "original" cast -- but at times it looked like several of the cast just weren't really suited to film acting. You could tell that Rosario Dawson and Anthony Rapp were the most comfortable screen actors of the main 8, though Wilson Heredia was pretty damn good too. In general, I thought they did a reasonable job adapting it -- though a few of the songs cut, like "Halloween" and "Christmas Bells are Ringing" sort of struck me as missing, along with the awesome answering machine songs. I was disappointed in the way one of the funniest lines in the show was delivered -- "I'm a New Yorker. Fear's my life." The montage over the song "Without You" was pretty cool. So yeah, I did enjoy it overall. I've always liked Anthony Rapp, though.
Came back here afterwards; ate dinner, hung out watching ESPN sports summary shows with Rafael, and now geeking out and updating stuff. Should sleep soon. Vague plan for tomorrow as of yet involves doing work during the day, then coming to campus later on for KGB and Kiltie Band, then hopefully hanging out with Carl, and maybe Django, and whoever else is around, maybe playing board games or something. I dunno. Arr.
jcreed, who is just as awesome as he ever is. I got him a "Reed 7" Mariners shirt a bit ago because every time Jeremy Reed does something cool (he's the rookie centerfielder for the Mariners) they put up "J-REED!" on the big board and it ALWAYS reminds me of Jason. :)Anyway, Jason and I talked for ages and had bagels, and after a while decided to come back here. Benoit was talking about going and getting a train game, so we went to Games Unlimited, and I convinced him to get British Rails. (BTW, vkaplan apparently works at GU now, which was a bit odd, but fortunately she seems to have forgotten me, so that's good.) We came back here and played British Rails for a few hours -- it was a really close game, and usual I totally would have won if not for the board. (No, really. I had 188 in money, all the cities connected, and contracts to deliver for 33 and 43, and then I got hit with both War Tax and several train-movement-limiters AND a few blown out bridges, etc.) Jason ended up winning -- though here's the funny part -- I was up to 248 cash, and he used my rail to deliver a contract, bringing him up to 255 cash, but he had to pay me 4, so we ended the game with him having 251 and me 252, but it was his turn, so he won. Whee.
After that, I called some people, and Charlie and I walked down the hill to the theater, where we met up with
kfcrawford and mj2q and saw the movie version of Rent. My only real nitpick is that Idina Menzel played Maureen. I dunno, she's a great stage actress and all, but her face doesn't do so well on screen, nor do I think a lot of her movement translates over right. I know they wanted to get a lot of the "original" cast -- but at times it looked like several of the cast just weren't really suited to film acting. You could tell that Rosario Dawson and Anthony Rapp were the most comfortable screen actors of the main 8, though Wilson Heredia was pretty damn good too. In general, I thought they did a reasonable job adapting it -- though a few of the songs cut, like "Halloween" and "Christmas Bells are Ringing" sort of struck me as missing, along with the awesome answering machine songs. I was disappointed in the way one of the funniest lines in the show was delivered -- "I'm a New Yorker. Fear's my life." The montage over the song "Without You" was pretty cool. So yeah, I did enjoy it overall. I've always liked Anthony Rapp, though.Came back here afterwards; ate dinner, hung out watching ESPN sports summary shows with Rafael, and now geeking out and updating stuff. Should sleep soon. Vague plan for tomorrow as of yet involves doing work during the day, then coming to campus later on for KGB and Kiltie Band, then hopefully hanging out with Carl, and maybe Django, and whoever else is around, maybe playing board games or something. I dunno. Arr.
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let me know, as I am in charge of calling ahead & whatnot. :)
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sorry :(