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And if tonight my soul may find her peace |
Wednesday, June 3, 1998
One year ago: The Earth is Our Country
Today I wore one of the new dresses I bought at the U-District Street Fair, a few weeks ago. It's a short-sleeved empire style dress, short in length too (so it's good for dancing), made of a crinkly rayon with tie-dyed star patterns of navy blue, teal, purple, and black.
What a beautiful day! I ate lunch outside to take advantage of it. I was going to join a friend who was sitting at a table outside, but he told me that other folks were joining him, and they (all members of the microsoft gun club) were going to discuss a movie I saw the other day, "Waco: the Rules of Engagement." I didn't feel any urge to discuss the movie in such a group, so I sat elsewhere. While eating, I read a compilation of computer industry magazine articles that the MS Library puts out every week. They only put the first page of any article, categorized as Microsoft news, competitor news, technical articles, etc. So if you want to read the full article, you email the Library and they send it to you.
My Secret Cache
This Japanese comedy was the funniest movie of the festival so far! A bank teller is taken hostage by robbers, then escapes. The money stolen is still in the wilderness, and she is the only one who knows where it is. Her life changes as she learns the skills to go back and get the money. Model Naomi Nishida has an incredible deadpan expression!
My sleep debt is really getting serious (and it is extremely late as I am typing this). I found myself dozing off in the lobby of the Broadway Performance Hall between shows.
The Red Door
A drama from India. A dentist has an estranged wife and a son that won't speak to him, plus he feels as if his arms and legs are turning to iron. But his driver has a happy though complicated life, with two wives in two different households, plus a lover! The driver is very appealing, but the rest is rather grim and tedious. Not recommended.
I wore the dress I mentioned above, because I had decided to skip the 9:30 movie and go to the Century Ballroom instead. It had been a week and a half since I'd been dancing, and I miss it! I truly had a blast! I danced with Dan Osborn, Chris "Cat Daddy" Chapman (one of my lindy hop teachers), and Paul Franklin who keeps the swing kids calendar. I also danced with a few new partners, including one guy who told me it was his first time dancing outside of a dance class. He did just fine!
It was great seeing Nancy Goudy back on the dance floor. She's the woman who injured her knee at the street fair linked above, and Sunday had been her first night back dancing. She'll still need surgery later in the year. She revealed the shocking news that she is moving to San Francisco! We will miss her.
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