Birthdays and Parties

Howdy!

I'd just like to say a huge thanks to everyone for making my birthday so nice! Everyone's such a long way away so I really wasn't expecting much. I'm touched! I'll do my best to send something, a postcard at least, to everyone in the next period. (It might take me a little while, because I have a very promising job interview tomorrow...) Here's some of the stuff I got, including a now very impressive-sized bean plant! Go Team Bean!



Rachel and I went to an 80's theme party the other week. It was truly tacky. I was actually disappointed that I didn't know more of the songs the hosts were playing. Rachel's office-mate Ferrinne was hosting (Ferrinne is another op-shopper and owns more clothes than Rachel, but it would be a close thing if Rachel hadn't just had to downsize her wardrobe to to a finite number of suitcases...) Ferrinne said she'd found something like 24 hours worth of 80s music in her collection without even having to download anything fresh. Alas, there was no Bananarama or Duran Duran or Pseudo Echo or Icehouse or Divinyls. (We were told that Duran Duran was actually big here, and Bananarama had one hit with Venus, but they were still sadly absent from the collection in question.)




As you can see, we improvised with what we had for 80's style outfits. Oh if only today's pop music was this cool!

We're going to see Flowers of Shanghai tonight at a film appreciation series at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. It's the second of three (last week we got A Touch of Zen). The series is called "Dynasties of Intrigue: Chinese Eras on Film". They have a guest speaker come and tell us a bit about what forces in the Chinese film industry have shaped the film, and then we watch the film. We're testing out the Mahal Indian restaurant in town beforehand too, and we'll see if there is anywhere in town that serves truly spicy food.

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