Back again.

We had quite a busy weekend. On Saturday we went to see 49 Up. For those of you who might not know, this started as 7 Up in 1964, where a group of 7-year-old children were interviewed about their lives and what they hoped to do, and then every 7 years they were interviewed again to see what they were doing. So now they’re all 49, and since I’ve enjoyed the previous instalments I’ve seen, when I saw it on the cinema’s website I thought it might be good. I can’t remember the last time M and I went to the movies, so that was good as well.

So we drove into the city, got the tickets first and then went into Rundle Mall to look at a few things before the movie started. The ‘few things’ being the Apple store, as M wanted to see how stable the Macs are, running Windows. We didn’t think the new range of Macs would be there yet, but they were! I was pretty pleased because I ordered a 24″ iMac last week (it’s not due to arrive until October 3rd :(), and seeing the one they had in the shop confirmed that I had made a very good decision indeed. Mmmm. I also saw the new Nanos and iPods. Even though I already have a DAP, I’m sure I could find something to do with an 8 Gb Nano. I’ve been getting a lot of podcasts recently to put on my iriver in preparation for the trip to NYC. If I get 6 hours’ worth of podcasts, I only have to listen to it right through 4 times and I’ll be there. Gawd… I think putting it like that it makes it sound worse, not better. Why can’t Australia be a bit closer to stuff? Well, we are close to New Zealand, which is where we’re thinking of going for our next holiday, so that will be a much shorter flight.

Anyway, after we finished looking at Macs we walked back to the cinema. I enjoyed the movie, although I didn’t remember any of the people in it. When I told my mum later that night that I’d seen it, she asked several specific questions about what they were all doing - I have no idea how she remembered who was who! She couldn’t remember the names, but she could remember what some of them had wanted to do and asked me if they were doing it. Same with a woman at TAFE. I think my memory must be really bad.

There are a few movies on at that cinema that I wouldn’t mind seeing. They play a lot of movies I’ve never heard of before; it’s not one of the mainstream cinemas. Since I joined the movie club they have, for the next year I get 2 discounted movie tickets to any session, so that’s a good incentive to go a bit more often. Going on Saturday has almost paid for the membership already. No I’m not a tight arse, it just seemed like a good deal!

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On Sunday we went to a BBQ with some people that M knows and who I’d never met before. I quite enjoyed myself - there were 4 women there, and the wife of the guy who organised the get-together wanted all the women to go into another room to chat and leave the guys to talk about their ‘guy stuff’. I would have been happy staying as one group but didn’t feel I could say no. It was nice, but I’m not really much for girly chat. I suppose that’s a result of being in male-dominated environments since my second year at university. But it was a great afternoon.