Still finding my feet at work and now the autumn is looking super-busy. Which is both good and bad (the busy bit, I mean). Good, because being at work with nothing to do is something I’ve done too much of already in my not-so-long-that-it’s-worth-mentioning career. Bad because, well, I can’t quite see how we’re actually going to manage to do it all. Especially once we take into account that the day only has 24 hours and we’re not actually supposed to work all of those…
Nice long weekend ahead now (remind me of those words Sunday evening, please). Not planning to do much, really, except get some washing done Sunday. Also want to go see Lilo & Stitch, because if it’s on in the original (rather than dubbed in Norwegian) at all, it will only be on for the first few weeks. So if I don’t get myself off to the theatre now, I’ll have to wait for the DVD release.
I suddenly had a flashback to when I was, what, 8 or so? My mother took me to the cinema in Hamar to see Annie. (Wow – I just impressed myself, checking the net it looks like the movie came out in 1982 which would make me 8 precicely.) Somehow – and this puzzles me, the reason for which I will get back to below – they had managed to sell too many tickets, and one of us had to sit on the stair next to the seat. I loved the film. I remember wondering how they managed to film that bit when she’s hanging from the bridge – how did they keep the actress safe while making it look like she was about to fall into the river? They’ve redone the cinema now, after we moved. I’m sure it’s much better, but I don’t think I want to go back. Funnily enough, what I remember best about the actual cinema is coming out after the film and always being suprised at the daylight, always somehow expecting it to be as dark outside as it was inside.
This was way back when, before they had computerised the ticketing system. They had these big boards full of tickets, on board for each show, one ticket on each board for each seat, and they tore the number of tickets off for you from the appropriate area of the board (bottom for the front of the theatre, top for the back). I can understand how the computer can get the number of tickets wrong, but how could they sell too many if there is just one physical piece of paper for each seat? Maybe the problem was actually that the seats were unnumbered for the show and that we couldn’t find two seats anywhere near each other?
Talking of pictures (weell…), the Picture of the day link at the top here should now actually link you to the new blog. And I’m really going to try getting in at least one picture a day. Having spent all this money on a nifty digital camera, I had better find some use for it, hadn’t I. Trying to add some local colour when I can (today’s picture is very local), it’s meant to be a pictoral diary rather than a display of photographic art. That’ll come later. Incidentally, the menu item intended for the aforementioned p. a. is “Gallery” and I’ve put the link to the new blog there as well for the time being (well, the menu item wasn’t in use at all). What else? Uhm, well, I’ve gone for a bit of a different layout. Just to set it apart a bit from the “literal” part of the site. And though I originally intended to do something fancy with thumbnails and pop-up windows, I’ve decided against it. Partly I don’t quite have the energy for the coding involved and partly because the “look” I’m going for is sort of sketchbook anyway, and full-size entries fits the look better. This does mean, though, that the pages will probably take a while to load on slow connections. If it’s a major problem, let me know, will you? (Come to think of it, I’m on a pretty slow connection myself, so I ought to be able to tell. But let me know anyway.)
That is really all for tonight, I think.
Sound of the moment: The Colors [sic] of the Wind (from Pochahontas – Disney’s Greatest Hits on the stereo)
Age of the moment: 24 (I just had some cider)