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Last night was my one evening this week to spend at home with no social engagements—I
had thought I might take myself to see
Dicks: The Musical tonight after work, but now I'm going to leave work an hour early to attend the Grand Opening event at Pride Place, because Laney has been invited as a speaker and I want to get pictures. Normally I might have shifted the movie to last night, but Shobhit was not working, and he needed help shooting a couple of video auditions. I did some reassessment of my calendar yesterday and decided I could book a ticket for 7pm to see the movie Saturday night, even though I have a Braeburn Theater double feature scheduled with Laney between 1:00 and 6:00. I'll just watch three movies that day, it's okay. This way I actually
can see
Dicks: The Musical—every single day the following week is booked with something else, including Shobhit's birthday on Monday; Halloween on Tuesday; and Action Movie Night on Wednesday.
Sheesh! So much for taking it easy. As if "taking it easy" has ever really been my jam anyway.
I'm supposed to get blood work done halfway through my prescription to treat a fungus on my toenail, to make sure it isn't fucking up my liver. I had the perfect opportunity to do that yesterday and then I forgot. Shit. Now I need to figure out where to fit that in. Maybe tomorrow, after I help Laney move into Pride Place?
So, yesterday I took the Monorail and Light Rail to Capitol Hill, walking home the last half mile. It was raining so I could only read my library book (about the making of the 2015 action spectacular
Mad Max Fury Road) while on transit.
Shobhit was much less difficult to deal with last night than he had been the night before, because I had made myself available to assist with his video auditions. The first one involved what I found to be rather sexist dialogue, where Shobhit plays a (pointedly—it says this on the sides) landlord bitching at a woman tenant about being late on her rent. I read the lines for the young woman. We shot it in the nook space outside the guest bedroom, a white wall with a background and my phone propped atop a stack of books set on the top of the half-wall that marks the north side of the nook. We ran through the lines probably a good ten times before we shot, and we probably shot ten or fifteen takes because Shobhit got it. He submitted two different takes.
We had dinner after that, heated up leftover potatoes and vegetables. It was also during this time that I
posted my history of glasses, having gotten my new two pairs—one regular and one readers—from LensCrafters. Shobhit had an appointment yesterday morning and he picked them up for me. The regular pair are taking some getting used to, with the typical slight distortion on the edges of vision that always happens with new glasses. The readers, honestly, are a revelation. For months I have been having to pull my glasses to the end of my nose to make text in a book clear when reading in bed, and now the pages look crystal clear. (Distance vision is blurred through those glasses, so I really will only wear those when reading in bed.)
Then, we shot Shobhit's other audition—the one we had already tried on Monday but Shobhit was unhappy with because of how his kurta was bunched up around the shoulders. In this one, it's just the one character, a guru, with lines. He practiced those several times, we shot a few takes, and got some good takes of that as well.
Then we watched a couple episodes of
The Righteous Gemstones on HBO Max, during which I did some work on logging films on Letterboxd. I've now worked my way backward to 2012 and have logged 1600 films.
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I just finished with my Zoom lunch with Karen, rescheduled from Friday because she was once again goin to be out of town—or so I thought! She canceled her trip, she said, and decided to do her presentation on Saturday virtually. We were already on the call so I didn't bother to ask why she didn't have use move this lunch call back to Friday.
We talked about many things, as always, including my plans to attend the Grand Opening at Pride place today, and then help Laney move in tomorrow.
Eventually she casually mentioned construction going on at their Tulalip property, and I was like—wait. "You've broken ground?" I asked. And they have! The foundation has been laid, and she even shared several photos that were taken just last Friday. It was very cool to see real, tangible progress finally happening. It was September 2021—more than two years ago—when we went up there to see the then-undeveloped property.
I asked about the projected finish for construction, and Karen noted that she had been sent a schedule and had not yet looked at it. She opened it while we were on Zoom. She even briefly shared that, because it was on this cascading chart with comically tiny print. But, according to that schedule, they should be done by September 2024. That's only if everything stays on schedule, of course, so I have my doubts about that—but, it did make Karen realize: "We could be in there by next Thanksgiving!"
I told her I can't wait to come and see it once it's finished. She said, "Yeah, me too." Ha! I would hope she felt the same way, it's her house!
But now I really have to pee so I'm going to post this and then get back to work.
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