yesterday i finally received my DVDHype discs. it took them 4 frickin' days from Montreal. that's a load of shit. oh well. i'll stay with them for a month after my free trial so i can't get as many of the first three Alias seasons as possible and then call it quits. so yesterday i'm obsessively watching out for the mailman so i can burn the discs and send them back asap before going to work. he finally arrives around 3:40, 40 minutes before i have to leave for work! i was able to move two full discs of Alias to my harddrive (while taking a shower and getting my lunch ready) before rushing out the door to go to work and mailing the discs back. that was cool.
this week also saw me turning on a dime -- first learning that Garbage was coming to Montreal (hell yeah. it's starting to sink in now) in April, looking up info on the fanclub to see if Montreal was part of the pre-sale the next morning, joining the fanclub, and finally getting up at 8:30 the next morning (having gone to bed at 4 the previous night because of work) so i could get my tickets for the show. huge thanks to my friend Melissa (who happened to be watching Musique Plus when they happened to mention it -- talk about luck) for tipping me off about it the afternoon before the pre-sale. i'm so psyched. looking for new Garbage promos to pop up online.
i also got a bunch of Criterion discs from Zip -- Jacques Becker's Casque d'or, Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway, and William Dieterle's The Devil & Daniel Webster (and i got two more on the way -- The Rock (Criterion's two-disc set) and Jules Dassin's Night and the City. i'm more than pleased about this Zip week. this is what i get for freeing up disc space by switching my tv discs over to DVDHype). i'll be watching a couple of those over the weekend. (ooh, and i finally got my Fanny & Alexander box set from DVDPacific this week also.) sunday night i'm taping the Oscars for the ex-roommate. as usual, i'm not planning on watching them but i might end up doing just like i always do -- checking in from time to time but end up watching the bulk of it -- and regret it when all's said and done. Chris Rock would be the reason i'd watch it this year, though. that's a huge pull.
speaking of the weekend -- a friend from work is supposed to come by today (still hasn't called, though) so we can talk about him moving here :) after weeks of waiting for an official answer from him. back in mid-january he mentioned if i was looking for a roommate. this took me by surprise but i told him i was. we both agreed we'd get along well, even friends from work agree. last week he finally broke it off with his live-in girlfriend (they knew they'd go their separate ways by July 1st - Moving Day up here in Canada) and he told me this was still his first and only choice for a new place. i'm very pleased with this. so today, presumably, we'll make this official and i can stop wondering about it (looking for a new place would not be a pleasant thing to have to do right now).
update, 4:08 pm
eh, the ex just called me from work. we're gonna watch a movie or two tonight. but she was talking with a coworker today. this friend of ours (the coworker) worked both days last weekend with my (hopefully) future roommate and she was kinda smitten by him. she told the ex this earlier this week. well, today she was still kinda talking about him even though she hadn't seen him in a week. well, that's not the good part. i don't know how they got on the subject but almost in the same breath she mentioned that she missed me :P that was sweet of her. i've only seen her twice since last august (she was invited to the pre-dinner for my birthday in october, and then at the other end of the parking lot at work). i got on great with her, especially last summer when we were working almost side-by-side for a couple of months and we kinda started to get to know each other a bit (but our teasing and joking around had started to develop into its own unique thing between the two of us). i don't want you to get the idea that she'd be perfect for me, i don't see it that way, but i was damn pleased to hear that she missed me. i'll say this, though, as i am pleased to repeat whenever the subject of her appearance is brought up -- she's the only girl i've met in real life that i thought could be a model. seriously. she's got it, she's got an aura about her. not the snobby part, just her appearance and the way she handles herself. anyway, that was sweet of her (now that i think of it -- especially since it's not something she'd tell me to my face). and i know, from the ex talking to her last summer, that she was thinking about me in a boyfriend-type of way back then until she saw that the ex was interested in me. but she's a bit young (22, i think, but looks a bit older) and i'm putting this on the backburner. but it's sure as hell nice to have her talk about me in this way :) that is all.
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