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I'm starting to get a little concerned about my work load this week, taking PTO all of next week. Not hugely concerned, just a teeny, tiny bit concerned. And not so much just because of PTO next week, but because of PTO next week
and things adding up this week that are cutting into my work time: the annual "Foraged Feast" today; a 1:1 meeting with Dave, our new VP of Merchandising, later this afternoon (he's meeting with everyone individually just to get to know us all, and actually I respect that); an email announcement this morning of an "All-Office Huddle" on Friday, in addition to my weekly 1:1 with Gabby on Friday.
Sheesh. I should not spend too much time writing for my blog today.
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What I will tell you about, as briefly as I can, is this: I left work at 4:15 yesterday, in an effort to get to a movie at the AMC 10 in the U District by the 5:00 showtime of a movie I wanted to go see. I really lucked out, with a Rapid Ride D coming only a couple of minutes after I got to the bus stop; and then the Light Rail train at Westlake Station pulling up literally as I arrived on the platform. I got to the theater, actually, with a good ten minutes to spare.
I was seated in the theater, waiting for commercials to end and trailers to start, when I got a text from Shobhit, who was supposed to be just leaving work:
Locked my keys in the car
Is your movie booked?
I replied:
Yes I'm at the movie. But I can make my way over there if you need me to. Not sure how long it will take
He said:
Please do
Will be faster than AAA
Just take the train downtown and then D line
So: literally the reverse of the lines I had just taken to get there—just taking the D further up its route than I would normally take it to the stop closest to my office. (My office is on Elliott Avenue, which meets up with 15th Ave W, which Total Wine & More is on.) I looked it up just as I was getting back on the train at U District Station and discovered there was a bus (the #32) I could have taken that would have taken me directly there. Well, with turns here and there, but it would have been stop to stop with no transfers.
Shobhit was sure my way was still faster. Along the way, I tracked the progress of both my bus, once I got on the D—which again, thankfully, pulled up shortly after I got to that stop downtown (where the true villages of drug users gathered on sidewalks have grown to stunning populations)—and was eager to find out whether I would get to the stop coming from the south first, or the 32 bus I could have taken would get to the stop coming from the north first. Had the 32 been on time, it would have barely beat me. But, it wound up being eight minutes delayed, according to the One Bus Away app, and so the choice I made ended up being the right one, as I handily beat the 32 there.
Shobhit had taken some wine samples in the store while he waited for me. I realized only as I got off the D bus that . . . fuck! I left my backpack at the theater!
This actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Not only did Shobhit take the opportunity to order takeout from an Indian restaurant in the U District while we drove back over there from Interbay, but the manager at the AMC really went above and beyond for me. I explained that due to an urgent matter I had to leave the movie I had come to but I left my backpack; the manager checked to make sure I found it (yes) and then I said, "I have a question. I know this is a long shot, but is there any chance you can take this movie off my three-movie limit for the week?" (With my AMC Stubbs subscription, I get up to three movies a week. But, if I try again with this movie tonight, and stick with my plan to see more movies on both Thursday and Saturday, that would be four booked movies in one week, and I'd have to pay extra for one.)
The guy seemed confident that he could do it, to my utter surprise. But then, he looked at a computer screen for like two seconds before he said, "I can give you a movie pass." I said, "That would be awesome!" He went to a back room and within like three minutes came back with a pass which he said could be used at any AMC. "That you so much!" I said. And had we not had to return for my backpack, I never would have gotten that little consolation prize.
Anyway! Too much writing already in this post! I drove us home from the Indian restaurant where we got the takeout, and as for my movie schedule, we just watched
The Killers, the new David Fincher movie on Netflix, which I originally thought I would watch tonight—and I'll go back to see the movie at AMC tonight. All I had to do was switch those movies around, and I've suffered no movie watching loss.
I did then
write a review for
The Killer (which I really liked), even though I had watched it on a streamer, but it did get a limited theatrical release (which was nowhere near me, frustratingly) and it's a high eough profile of a movie to warrant it. This is much rarer now than it was in, say, 2021 or even much of 2022, but I've actually now reviewed two streamer movies in the past week.
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[posted 12:44 pm]
