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I wanted to watch and review a movie last night, and among the several streaming options I have right now, I decided to go with the one that actually was released a couple of months ago:
Finch, starring Tom Hanks, which has actually been available on Apple TV+ since November 5. I just signed up for a free month of Apple TV+, though, both so I could watch
Swan Song and so we could watch season 2 of
Ted Lasso, which means I suddenly also had access to
Finch.
I don't usually wait this long to review a movie, even though I did kind of regularly last year when I reviewed a ton of movies that were streaming or VOD. Theaters have long been open now, though. I still kind of further justified to myself, reviewing this one two months on, because occasionally in the past I have still reviewed a movie that old if it still happened to be playing in theaters. So, why not?
I can't decide the degree to which
my C+ review was informed by how much time I spent last night feeling annoyed and frustrated, particularly toward Shobhit, who loves to continue arguing even well after it's clear to us the argument is over and continuing to discuss serves no purpose. What we argued about isn't particularly important. Just that I was not in the best of moods when I wrote that review, probably making me even more annoyed with the objectively flawed movie than I would have been otherwise.
But, don't get me wrong: I would have been just as disappointed with the movie itself either way, and I stand by the grade, which I'm fairly certain I would have given it regardless of my mood. The concept, which is about a man in a post-apocalyptic world who builds a robot so it can take care of his dog after he dies, is a compelling one. I knew going in that the reviews had already been mixed at best (a score of 57 on MetaCritic), but within the range where sometimes I still like the movie (
French Exit, for example, has a score of 56 and I loved that one so much I put it on my top ten of the year). Well, the consensus was right on this one.
I had a pretty good time for about half of it. Then it was increasingly just plain stupid. Oh, well. I got to watch a movie and I love movies!
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That movie took up the majority of my evening, and easily contributed to my completely spacing the need to drive to the office and swap out the receiving paperwork I had worked through yesterday.
The first thing I did, after finishing my work day, was walk down to Virginia Mason and get my third HPV vaccine shot right on schedule. It's a series of three shots, the second three months later and the third four months after that. I had the same guy as before give me the shot. I did have to wait several minutes because, in contrast to the other two times, they didn't have the order in from Dr. Auerbach, who apparently is on vacation and is between positions; I need to find a new doctor. Interestingly, another lady was in there complaining about this very thing to the receptionist at the injection room before she left her own appointment. Auerbach is moving to something called "concierge service" and the lady was complaining about how she can't afford an additional $300 a month. Tell me about it, lady. But, I'm not going to begrudge the doctor for moving his career into a path that works best for him. I'll just switch doctors. Yet again. (I am slightly annoyed, admittedly, that when I first started going to see Dr. Brandon, I said city living seems to mean I can't have the same doctor for most of my life because they always move on to something else within a few years, and he responded by saying, "I'm not going anywhere." So much for that! Now he's just proving my original point.)
Anyway. I had gone to Virginia Mason Medical Center with the intention of coming back home, driving to the office, and
then returning home again to watch and review the movie. I just spaced the whole office part after getting back from the hospital. So, having already processed the paperwork yesterday which meant Accounting needed the invoices back by today, I drove down there first thing this morning, as soon as I was done getting ready. As is often the case even when I'm actually working at the office, I was the first one there, so I was there all by myself for the ten or fifteen minutes I was there. I still double masked the whole time. I think others might rationalize it as okay because no one else was there, but what if I was the carrier of the virus, walking around unmasked for fifteen minutes? The next people arriving would be the ones to walk into all that, what I had basically just crop dusted all over the office with my mouth.
I remain fairly confident I don't have COVID: no symptoms, negative rapid test on Wednesday last week. I'm really hoping we finally get the official PCR results today. Shobhit keeps nagging me about whether the results have come, and this morning was acting like not having the results yet might mean they didn't even do the PCR test. I don't know what the fuck his deal is lately, but literally none of that thinking has any logic to it. They did
two separate types of nose swabs when we got tested last week; they would not have done the PCR swabs if they weren't going to run the test. And they told us, plainly and clearly, that the PCR results would take three to five business days. In terms of business days, today is day four. I mean, Jesus Christ.
Hopefully we do indeed get the confirmed results by tomorrow, after which even I will start getting annoyed with GS Labs. But not until then! I'm pretty satisfied with the 85% accuracy of the rapid tests anyway.
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[posted 12:24 pm]
