Passing Fair

Friday night I was still pretty tense from a long stressful work day.  There was much chilling out and cider drinking with Heatray and Tegin, and a lot of Angel got watched.  Some episodes were really on, some were reeeeeally melodramatic.  I was nodding off near the end, the day was taking it's toll.

Saturday I played some Warhammer in Harvard Sq.  Took a drubbing, but learned a bit from it.  Saturday night I visited hawkegirl for her birthday, and we actually saw each other this time!  It was a chill group of people, though apparantly things got very interesting after I left (alas).  I had a very good reason for leaving: mrfph and her husband were in town at Toast, so I got to catch up with them.  They looked great, and had a great time.  I ran into Susan unexpectedly as well.

Sunday: more games (a loss and a win), buy more paint, and a power Mexican dinner with Susan before watching King Kong.  It was a treat to watch.  There are some major similarities to LOTR (the Uruk Hai, I mean, natives).  I really liked some of the fight scenes and the brontasaurs pile up, but somethings pushed my suspension of disbelief.  I think there would have been a lot more casualties in the stampede, and I fail to see how people on foot could keep outrunning dinosaurs or Kong.  Also, had I survived that island, I think I'd be catatonic.  Especially had I fallen into Bug Valley.  Gack.
The film touched on two of my phobias:  insects, and fear of heights.  I would have been petrified standing on top of the Empire State Building like that.
Jack Black's performance was awesome, and Naomi Watts was perfect as a thirties era screen siren.  Well, I liked her anyway.

No food shopping or gym time occured this weekend though.  Better fix that next time around.