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l33tminion) wrote2023-08-22 02:45 pm
l33tminion) wrote2023-08-22 02:45 pm
Last Phase of Summer
Erica is now back in Cleveland for the end of the summer. My mom got a bee sting towards the end of that dance camp, which got infected, which delayed everyone's return to Cleveland this weekend as she ended up in the hospital while the real-serious-business antibiotics could be administered. Fortunately wasn't too long a stay. My Dad and Erica got a brief detour to crash at Melissa's place in Baltimore (her family was out at that point) but fortunately/unfortunately didn't really have time for additional tourism.
On Saturday, I took Julie to No. 9 Park for an additional late 10th anniversary celebration. That one's been on our list for some time, and it was a fantastic meal.
On Sunday, we saw Landscape With Invisible Hand with Boston Sunday Night Film Club, a Kafkaesque sci-fi drama about a young artist on an Earth that has been reduced to third-world-country status after first contact with and subsequent economic domination by extraterrestrials. I thought it was really good and quite original. Looking up more about the movie, I found out that it's based on a book by M. T. Anderson. I haven't read much by Anderson, but I really enjoyed Feed, a really great YA dystopian novel with possibly one of the most crushing endings of any book I've ever read. So maybe I ought to read the book? Anyways, was nice to hang out with the film club people again. Julie hadn't been for years.
The repairs on the wall around our condo complex continue, though that continues to be a nightmare struggle with bureaucracy.
Edited to add: I also had another incident today of "MBTA CT2 bus driver gets themselves into a situation between Cambridge St. and Hampshire St.", which seems to be becoming an alarmingly common occurrence. Construction + new drivers + a thorny maze of side streets seems a bad combination.
On Saturday, I took Julie to No. 9 Park for an additional late 10th anniversary celebration. That one's been on our list for some time, and it was a fantastic meal.
On Sunday, we saw Landscape With Invisible Hand with Boston Sunday Night Film Club, a Kafkaesque sci-fi drama about a young artist on an Earth that has been reduced to third-world-country status after first contact with and subsequent economic domination by extraterrestrials. I thought it was really good and quite original. Looking up more about the movie, I found out that it's based on a book by M. T. Anderson. I haven't read much by Anderson, but I really enjoyed Feed, a really great YA dystopian novel with possibly one of the most crushing endings of any book I've ever read. So maybe I ought to read the book? Anyways, was nice to hang out with the film club people again. Julie hadn't been for years.
The repairs on the wall around our condo complex continue, though that continues to be a nightmare struggle with bureaucracy.
Edited to add: I also had another incident today of "MBTA CT2 bus driver gets themselves into a situation between Cambridge St. and Hampshire St.", which seems to be becoming an alarmingly common occurrence. Construction + new drivers + a thorny maze of side streets seems a bad combination.