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Part 1 – Embarrassment

After being up late Friday night, packing and getting my mom situated, we were up the next morning at 2 am to catch our 6 am flight. Luckily, both of us have an amazing ability to sleep on an airplane.

We zonked out even before person sitting next to me arrived. I didn’t wake up until I heard a voice on the intercom telling people to pass their garbage to the flight attendant. I looked up and saw a man in a vest who was walking slowly toward us and looking purposefully at each row. He reminded me of Cameron from Modern Family. I assumed he was the flight attendant.

And so I handed him my tissues for the garbage. He looked at me like, “Really?” and I knew instantly what I’d done. I’d handed a random guy my garbage. Ouch.

Part 2 – Celebrity Sighting

We’ve seen:

James Cromwell
Danny Glover
Peter Dinklage
Fred Armisen

Part 3 – Movie Review

I saw one movie yesterday – the much heralded Seattle-produced movie The Off Hours. It was really, really good.

I’m biased, of course, but I do think that the scenery helped tell so much of the story. It’s a story centered around three people who work in an all night diner. It’s about the lives of people who are lonely and stagnant. But it’s beautiful and oddly uplifting. Dave secured most of the locations in the movie, so pay special attention to the diner, the apartments and the gravel parking lot. My favorite was the train tracks she walked past every night to get to work and every morning to get home. How have train tracks come to represent poverty in our country? Anyway…. See the movie.

Part 4 – Parties

We were invited to two parties. The first was the post-premiere for The Off Hours. It’s the first time in my life that the bouncer has looked at me and said, “She’s in” while a line of super cool people wait to try to get in. Of course, it was because she knew Dave but I’ll take it anyway.

Within the first few minutes, I met the editor of IDMB and learned he lives in my neck of the woods. We had a great time chatting with him.

At the second party, I was chatting with Jay Wesley Cochran (a Seattle-area actor) when Rico Thomas joined us. Rico and Jay are sharing a condo with several other people from Seattle and the two of them are sharing a room. Rico started telling me the etiquette when two very large, very straight men share a bed. Suddenly, he is in full comedic mode and people around us have stopped talking and are listening to him. It’s like he was serenading me, only it was a comedy act. And it was HILARIOUS! I was crying he was so funny. Below is a photo.