Monday, Muddy Monday

Here we are at the beginning of the week. On the chopping block today is a meeting with Ray regarding our crazy New York experience. I am not sure of my preparedness for this meeting, as I have been without funny thoughts for some days now, as evidenced by my recent posts.

I spent the weekend playing "Expedition to Castle Ravenloft" which was fun and hard. I played a dwarf cleric of the sun, which turned out to be very useful against the legions of undead we faced. Our Dungeon Master did paper cut-outs for the entire final location, which was a huge multi-layered castle. In the end, there was much pain, and even a death or two. Yesterday, we ran from 8AM to midnight, which is probably the longest session I remember ever taking part in (not counting conventions, because sleep is banished from such places). Good weekend, tasty adventure.

I saw "Pan's Labyrinth" recently, which is as good as the hype. The hype is that it's a very good film, by the way. It's very engaging, and imaginative from a visual perspective. The imagination/reality relationship is played up expertly. I strongly recommend it. One thing that irritated me, though, is on the imdb.com page for the film, it has an example of an increasingly annoying trend that I've noticed: "Received 22 minutes of applause at the Cannes Film Festival". I'm just getting sick of these increasing figures of duration of applause at the freakin' Cannes Film Festival. "Fahrenheit 911" got ten minutes of applause, "The Queen" got an eighteen minute standing ovation, at the end of "Babel" the entire audience died of orgasmic pleasure... blah blah blah.

I'm still missing my lady friend pretty badly, but my box of cards from her is keeping me strong. The last card strongly implied that I am a special individual (and not in a mean way).