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daToday, on the whole, was good. On the basis that I like being around people when I'd otherwise feel dejected, I was a bit more of a social butterfly than I might otherwise. I also feel like I totally lucked out that it was so warm- I got 15 miles of biking in today.
I lazed around the house for the morning, then went to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joymoose's Brewery Tour Going Away Party. Which turned out to be loads of fun, even though the Brewery's idea of a tour was a bar with beer samples, a wall poster of the brewing process, and a video which I never actually watched. I did, however, sample a bunch of beers I hadn't tried, and found one I like nearly as much as their Dark lager (see, now I can toss around words like 'lager' and not feel like a faker). My favourite of what I tried was the honey-red, which is apparently coming out in bottles in April. ...I also learned there was to be a World Premiere of a new film by lovecraftienne & persephoneplace's director-friend Steve, at the GLBT film festival in the evening. We all walked out the door with a beer glass, a coupon worth as much as the $2 entry fee, and a full stomach because kourtneyshort ordered us pizza. Thanks Kourtney!
Then, biked home, played with the dog, and napped until the late-afternoon vigil for Tom Fox. It was surprisingly well-attended, for a pacifist rally... But of course, there are a lot of Menonnites in this town. Over 10,000, if I recall. That's something like 8 times the number of Quakers in Canada. I still have to remind myself of this occasionally, when I think about who most of the religious pacifists in this country are. Anyway, there will be more events organized by the same people, at least two this month which sound interesting.
I had dinner and quite the far-ranging conversation with Karl and Jennifer from Quaker Meeting; we talked about sex, racism, family structure, poly relationships (!) and their upcoming pilgrimage across Spain.
Afterward, I didn't feel like heading home so I biked back uptown for the second time, to see the premier of this film, Most Guys Today. It's a comedy about dating, spiced up with film clips from 1950's-era Health movies talking about what good girls and boys did and didn't do. Highly entertaining. In the Director Q&A, he said that he hadn't intended it to be a big message film, but it does pick up nicely on ways that society, especially for young adults, has both benefit and lost with the last 50 years' changes in values and norms.
...And just now, I had a good long conversation with my sweetie, who I get to see in three weeks (yay!).
I lazed around the house for the morning, then went to
joymoose's Brewery Tour Going Away Party. Which turned out to be loads of fun, even though the Brewery's idea of a tour was a bar with beer samples, a wall poster of the brewing process, and a video which I never actually watched. I did, however, sample a bunch of beers I hadn't tried, and found one I like nearly as much as their Dark lager (see, now I can toss around words like 'lager' and not feel like a faker). My favourite of what I tried was the honey-red, which is apparently coming out in bottles in April. ...I also learned there was to be a World Premiere of a new film by lovecraftienne & persephoneplace's director-friend Steve, at the GLBT film festival in the evening. We all walked out the door with a beer glass, a coupon worth as much as the $2 entry fee, and a full stomach because kourtneyshort ordered us pizza. Thanks Kourtney!Then, biked home, played with the dog, and napped until the late-afternoon vigil for Tom Fox. It was surprisingly well-attended, for a pacifist rally... But of course, there are a lot of Menonnites in this town. Over 10,000, if I recall. That's something like 8 times the number of Quakers in Canada. I still have to remind myself of this occasionally, when I think about who most of the religious pacifists in this country are. Anyway, there will be more events organized by the same people, at least two this month which sound interesting.
I had dinner and quite the far-ranging conversation with Karl and Jennifer from Quaker Meeting; we talked about sex, racism, family structure, poly relationships (!) and their upcoming pilgrimage across Spain.
Afterward, I didn't feel like heading home so I biked back uptown for the second time, to see the premier of this film, Most Guys Today. It's a comedy about dating, spiced up with film clips from 1950's-era Health movies talking about what good girls and boys did and didn't do. Highly entertaining. In the Director Q&A, he said that he hadn't intended it to be a big message film, but it does pick up nicely on ways that society, especially for young adults, has both benefit and lost with the last 50 years' changes in values and norms.
...And just now, I had a good long conversation with my sweetie, who I get to see in three weeks (yay!).
