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Yesterday was a movie night with Laney, at Pacific Place—a 5:00 showing of
Companion, which we both thought was pretty good (solid B).
There's not a whole lot more to say about it, except that Laney was a couple of minutes late—I have no idea why; it didn't really matter to me—and I, having decided to hop on a bus rather than walk in the boots I was wearing due to the snow in the morning, got there unusually early, at like 4:50. I went ahead inside as soon as I got there.
And after the movie, we did walk the rest of the way up the hill together. I did learn rather a bummer of a detail about Pride Place, the once-exciting LGBT-affirming affordable housing she lives in. They have apparently pivoted to
not noting the queer-affirming element in the building, because not enough queer people were moving in and this was how they were able to get to 80% capacity. But Laney estimates that now a good 40% of the residents who
do live there are not only cisgender and straight, but had no idea they were moving into a building with a bunch of queer people in it.
Laney said she emailed the management company about it, and they came back with some version of, "Well, we can't discriminate." This seems like a real bullshit response to me; they certainly could have still made it clear that the whole concept of the building was to provide senior housing for queer people. Now they have a large contingent of straight people with little understanding of the queer community, and according to Laney, some of them are pretty rude to the queer people.
Laney seems to have a surprisingly chill attitude about all this, but I find it deeply disappointing. What good are they doing the queer seniors there if they've gone out of their way to make the one place that was supposed to be a safe space for them, feel definitively less safe? I find it deeply troubling.
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Anyway, as usual we parted ways on Broadway and I walked the rest of the six blocks home up Pine Street. I spent roughly an hour writing the review as usual, and Shobhit got home from having gone out himself, right around the time I finished up. We had just enough time to watch one more episode of
Being Human on BritBox. I figure we'll at least watch the last two episodes of the first season tonight. The trial subscription ends on Sunday so it's possible we might manage to burn through a second seaso over the weekend, but there definitely won't be time for all five seasons. Which I guess is fine.
I called Gabriel shortly after that, even though it was kind of late, and we chatted on the phone for 70 minutes. It was 11:15 before we finally hung up, after talking mostly about movies, and specifically Oscar nominees.
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As for the weather, the mornings have reverted yet again to being super cold, in the twenties this morning and lows in the mid-twenties forcast several days next week. There's not a high breaking 40° right now until Friday
next week. Such as the new normal, I guess: climate change makes for wild stretches of weather, including ridiculously cold snaps in the winter. The just don't last as long on average as the heat waves in the summer. Bleh! So much for Seattle weather being reliably mild year-round.
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