after the rain

well, i guess the phone call didn't go so well, so maurice is going to have to go fetch the document after all. poor guy; sounds like it will probably take him half of tomorrow. seriously, though? 400km (200 each way) for a freaking piece of paper---ridiculous. that's all i have to say.

but once he's got it, we'll try to go in and sign the new contract tomorrow afternoon, which will make me feel a lot better, considering i've already started the process for ending my current contract (which will hopefully go through without too much hassle).

the sun is shining today. it's been raining for about the last week (we even had to cancel the hike that the excom for the choir had been planning last weekend). i guess this means i can take home some boxes tonight and start packing. that reminds me, i should probably try to do an inventory while packing. you know, figure out what i actually have, and how ludicrous it looks when i write it all down on one sheet of paper (god, i hope it still fits onto only one sheet of paper... maybe i'll just use a really small font).

the other day, i was perusing a collection of films that i had indiscriminantly copied from someone (probably the mit kids, but i don't actually remember anymore), and picked one at random, since there were a good many that i had never heard of (okay, yes, i realize that doesn't really say much, seeing as there aren't very many films that i *have* heard of, in the grand scheme of things). anyway, it was called "almost normal," and let me tell you, it wasn't. ha. i've seen a fair number of films that i would classify as 'bizarre' in my time, but i think this one has currently run away with the cake in that category. which isn't necessarily a bad thing, since it was pretty funny, but wow, was it ever wierd. it was pretty obviously low budget, and there was plenty of overacting, but at least some of that was probably intentional, as it added to the hilarity, however terrifying. here's the plot summary: homosexual man has mid-life crisis, decides all he ever really wanted was to be "normal," and crashes his car while drunk. naturally, (of course) he wakes up in an alternate universe, where everything is exactly as it would have been if he was reliving his senior year in high school, except in a universe where the straight people are in the minority, and the ones subject to hate crimes. there, you've got the basics. like i said, it's pretty messed up, but i have to give them points for the creative social commentary.