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Last Friday: Willy Wonka (1971) in Smell-o-vision at SIFF Cinema with grad friends, subtitled for singing along. The enhancement consisted of some candies and fabric swatches, and the subtitles said when to use which ones: "Chew the gum/ With your mouth open." The best part (and okay, I was a little high, but it was amazing) was in the bubble room part, when the entire audience was also blowing bubbles. So surrounded by wonder, way better than 3D movies. Afterward most of us got some food and I managed to blow someone's mind completely, so that was pretty great too.

Last Saturday: grad Christmas party, complete with someone in a Santa suit, someone afraid of the Santa suit, Kinect dancing game, Ultimate Fighting (did not watch), the Grinch (totally watched), and lots of eggnog. My lemon meringue pie was a hit, though I meant to balance it slightly sweeter; the sugar we have is coarse and fell out of the meringue more than it melted in.

Last Sunday: brunch at Salish Lodge, next to an overwhelmingly full Snoqualmie Falls. The gauge for water flow was at 80-85% of its capacity, and the falls was enormous.







And then dinner out for marzipan_pig's birthday, with PIG HATS.

Last Wednesday: did a little work and hung out with my dad.

Yesterday: Tron Legacy in 3D at the Cinerama: geeky and mythic and pretty, and the 3D is mostly good rather than super-gimmicky. Total Bechdel fail, of course. And while "Laser Lebowski" on the Neptune marquee cracked me up, "Return to DOS" incensed me, as "whoami" is clearly UNIX.

Last night: dinner with m-pig; intention to go to an SF reading was foiled by its having been on Wednesday (crap!); instead going to Elliott Bay, reading the Virgin Project comics, and meeting people we knew of old. Figured out what to give my mom for Xmas, thank god. Met a girl with my name, spelled the same!

Tonight: Labyrinth! with grad friends and m-pig. Considering wearing a ballgown.

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