I AM CANADIAN

Despite our lack of vocalization, most Canadians are extremely proud to be Canadian. We’re just subdued about it. That is until last night. The Canadian Men’s hockey team won the gold medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics. It was an awesome game. Nail biter. I love those and I hate those. The suspense kills me. And just when we thought we had it all wrapped up a goal by the U.S. to tie it with less than thirty seconds left. Over time just about did me in. But in the end Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal for Canada. Despite being ecstatic that Canada won I felt kind of bad for the U.S. team. They played a really good game and they looked so dejected.

All in all Canada won fourteen gold medals. A record not only for a host country but for the winter Olympics period. I loved the opening and closing ceremonies. It was great to see all the Canadian celebrities. But I especially love William Shatner and Michael J. Fox.

Now that the Olympics are over it’s back to normal. New episodes of favourite shows will be on. I can actually get writing done. During the Olympics I only wrote 3100 words.

Congratulations Canada!

I’m off to get some work done for a change.

Until next time…

Cindy

Back to the grind and other stuff

I find it hard to go back to a five day work week after having two long weekends in a row. Last week was great, only working three days. But now it’s back to work. Five days a week. I really think they should implement the four day work week. I could totally get used to that. Of course if they did that it would probably mean longer days for the four days I worked. Hmmm. Maybe I don’t want a four day work week.

Didn’t get much done on the weekend. A lot of marathon watching. As in the Doctor Who marathon on Space on Saturday and the Stargate: Universe marathon on Sunday. Love those shows. Not sure about this new doctor though. I’ll give him a chance because I love the show but I LOVED David Tennant. He was my favourite doctor.

Now, I must pick my first book to read for the month. I already know what book I’m going to read second. I’m just waiting for it to arrive in the mail. First, I need to get to work. They kind of insist you show up and do work for 7.5 hours.

Until next time…

Cindy

Moon

Went to see Moon on Wednesday at an awesome place in Guelph – The Bookshelf. The Bookshelf is a bookstore, café, bar and cinema. They like to show movies that are not in wide release. The bookstore is decent but no romance section. I’ll be working on that. But I digress.

The movie was great. A little slow to get started but it needed to be that way to show us the isolation and loneliness Sam Bell feels. It did a great job at that. I thought GERTY was a little too helpful once Sam discovered something was wrong. And maybe even before that. Some of Sam’s hallucinations didn’t make sense. I don’t want to give any spoilers so I won’t say which ones. I know hallucinations as a rule don’t make sense of course, because they’re hallucinations, but some of them just shouldn’t have been there. Yes, they hinted at something but he should not have had that knowledge as far as I’m concerned. He gave no clues that he “knew” what was going on even on a subconscious level. So how could he hallucinate what he hallucinated? And there was a setup that I was waiting to be paid off that never was. Other than that I thought it was a great movie.

Off to work. And then in for a relaxing (I hope) weekend.

Until next time…

Cindy

District 9

What with the camping, writing meetings, vacation, contest judging, and a new significant other, I haven’t had a lot of time to actually go to the movies lately. I’m way behind on my movie quota for the year. But, I did get to the movies last week and saw District 9. Now, I like Peter Jackson, though I’ll admit I haven’t seen everything he’s done. And he didn’t direct this movie. He was the executive producer. Still, with his name attached how could you go wrong, right? RIGHT!

Ha, you thought I was going to say wrong. The only real complaint I have is the shaky camera work. You all know how I LOVE that. But unlike most other movies I’ve seen with the shaky camera style this actually added to the movie. Leant it some realism. The documentary style of the movie also added to the realism.

It is a movie about racism. And it still had me thinking about it days later. Wondering about things. Analyzing other parts. There were some definite gross moments. And there were moments that really made you think. I thought it was a well told story. The set ups were there. Some of the payoffs were predictable. It was fast paced. I did like the ending. And of course it’s been left open for a sequel or three.

Would I say it was the best science fiction movie I ever saw? Probably not. But it is up there. It was a fantastic movie.

I’ll be getting to another movie this week but I’ll still be behind. I’ll have a lot of catching up to do later. For now I’m off to work.

Until next time…

Cindy

The winner is…

The drive-in was a blast yesterday. Everything I remembered. Before the first movie even ended, Ian, my friend who had never been before said we should all do it again. I guess that means he liked it.

The movies we saw…Terminator Salvation and The Hangover. Everyone actually stayed awake for both movies too. Good thing I didn’t make any bets on that.

After taking the names of the people who guessed the right screen and putting them in a hat, the winner of the workshop lessons is Anna!

Anna, I’ll be emailing you the entire workshop later on this week.

Thanks for playing everyone!

Until next time…

Cindy

Do you remember the drive-in?

I loved the drive-in when I was little. Loved being able to wear my PJs. Sitting in lawn chairs beside the car. Playing in the playground before the movie started and during intermission. I even loved the dancing popcorn. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to the drive-in. Ontario has very few of them left these days. And the ones they do have are sort of a hike to get to. But…a group of friends and I are going to the drive-in tomorrow. I can’t wait.

For one of my friends it will be his first time ever going to the drive-in! Can you believe that? A thirty-something guy who has never experienced the drive-in. I hope I haven’t hyped it up too much for him. I wouldn’t want him to be disappointed. And none of the usual shenanigans will be going on because let’s face it, my friends and I are too old for that. But we will enjoy two movies and have the freedom of not being shushed if any of us talk during the movie. Well, I’ll enjoy two movies. Whether or not the rest of them will be able to stay up that late is anyone’s guess.

We’re going to The 5 Drive-In. Our choices for tomorrow are:

Screen 1

Angels and Demons
The Taking of Pelham 123

Screen 2

Terminator Salvation
The Hangover

Screen 3

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Land of the Lost

If anyone can guess what screen I’ll be at I’ll put your name in a hat to draw for my complete Is That Hollywood Calling? Workshop complete with extras.

I’m off to work.

Until next time…

Cindy