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Just back from the afore-referenced Made in Secret: The Story of the East Van Porn Collective (this time I've linked to the A2 Fest page on't, just to mix it up) --- good, funny, good, funny, good, thinky-funny. Great faces. People like people you've known; people like you'd like to know. It plays again Sat night @ 10, and if you've ever been in a collective or multi-resident house or whatever kinda group operating by consensus, you might get a kick out of it. Not to mention the premise of anarcho-feminists making good porn, and the play among the movie (you name its genre---I defy ya!), the documentary within the movie, the collective making the movie within the documentary within the movie, and even the movie the collective is making within the documentary within the movie. If it sounds dizzyingly meta-meta, it isn't---or it is, but only when you think about it outside of it, and there's plenty to think about inside of it while it's going on.

Oh, Canada. Did you know I wanted to move to Vancouver when I was 21? Chickened out about supporting myself through an indulgent graduate degree there, and also just wanted to go shack up w/gf in a city nearby a.s.a.p.

Good communal feel to the crowd again tonight. Free tub of popcorn on the way out. Cold out. Tired of cold out. Need gas & air in one tire but too cold out; pushing luck.

Boss not in next two days. Party starts tomorrow!! (Only kidding.) (Sadly.)

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no, no---TGP---but it was just a "while the cat's away" joke. she's still the good boss & all.

i do mean the "sadly" part, though. we're kinda restricted around here to letting our hair down at designated times only, with a few exceptions. not that that's completely bad, but.... and there's the sucky part of being a supervisor myself, which i know i've talked to you about before. plus it's a great workplace, but you can't help but hanker for the legendary days of yore, with the gin & tonics and the lunch table with bridge & pizza and stuff like that. though i guess that was also the time of the lech and the much-maligned sweaty hairy shirtless guy. and the lady who socked the guy.

It would be totally awesome to live in Vancouver. I love it all.... the mountains, the water, the tall green trees, even the skyscrapers. Haven't been there in a long while but enjoyed my previous visits. Took the train out there one time, and that was the best! Spectacular scenery. Walked across this suspension bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capilano_Suspension_Bridge) in North Vancouver, visited relatives in Surrey, BC, and spent much time jogging and hiking--great workout with the dramatic and frequent shifts in terrain, but took some time to get used to breathing the air.

The bridge looks cool. Next trip up there, I'm on it. (Literally.) It was a cold March when I visited Vancouver & Victoria. I loved it, too, and didn't even get to play in the outdoors much. Did take a coupla ferries. And walked around Victoria looking at houses.

I have to say, it's kinda weird finding out I know you in real life---and weirder that it's at work. Funny that it's more disconcerting thus suddenly to "know" someone who's here than it is, say, to interact online with real-life strangers far away.

In this case I think the heightened weirdness, for me, may be from its starting out stealthy, and then figuring out who you are. Not that I don't take the possibility into account, at least in the back of my mind, that even an identity I encounter here who presents as a person in location x with interests a, b, c, etc., who seems to think from her/his writings q, r, s, etc., might well be someone else entirely, including someone I know. Still, there's something odd-feeling about it.

Have a nice vacation, if you go out that way.

Sorry for the disconcerting aspect. Blogs, in general, are a new experience for me... not trying to be stealthy, really, but hard to explain. I'm thinking of writing an old-fashioned journal, not online, if I write one at all. Or maybe I'll visit foreign blogs to work on my French reading skills. Got some homework to do, so I'm going to hit the books and turn off the computer now. Take care, keep blogging, be happy!

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