All Shall Love Me and Despair

Had my first encounter with a chip-and-pin/self-checkout machine yesterday at a CVS. Yes, it immediately made me think of a certain scene in Sherlock. /hopeless geek Thankfully I got through checkout without shouting abuse at the machine though. ;)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/25/gaymarriage-newyork-idUSN1E75N1XJ20110625

New York legislature approves gay marriage

ALBANY, N.Y., June 24 (Reuters) - New York's state legislature gave final approval on Friday to same-sex marriages, a key victory for gay rights ahead of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.

New York will become the sixth and most populous U.S. state to allow gay marriage. State senators voted 33-29 to approve marriage equality legislation introduced by Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat in his first year of office. [...]

Read the full article at the link.

Fantastic news, and the decision came just before Sunday's Pride parade. :)

So last night I got back from the first NT Live screening of Frankenstein at the NYU Skirball Center, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein - which I thought was awesome, apart from some minor quibbles - only to find a link to this on my flist: Benedict Cumberbatch Headed to Broadway With AFTER THE DANCE?

Oh. My. God.

I know it's early stages and far from certain to happen, blah blah blah, but...

OH! MY! GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

If this does happen, I AM SOOOOO GOING!!!

I♥NYC

In the meantime, I'm looking forward to the second Frankenstein screening on Sunday, which has the reverse cast: JLM as the Creature, and BC as Victor Frankenstein. It will be interesting to compare the performances!

In other words, I went around about half a dozen shops, including Macys, H&M, and JC Penney, but I still don't have a new winter coat. What I have instead is the urge to bang my head against a wall repeatedly.

*frustrated sigh*

but I only wish! :/

Work is mostly of the routine/boring kind, and not busy enough to help me overcome my inertia caused by bad sleep and neck/back related problems. Hopefully my new mattress really will arrive this week, because the old one is just plain and simple f-ing with my back/neck, as was very obvious from the first night I spent on it after my holidays. Also have a Wednesday appointment with my sister for a BowTech treatment, which of course I haven't had since mid July. Oh and PMSing doesn't help with all this, obviously, but it seems we're almost past the "Pre" phase now, at least.

Of course I still haven't done any Aotearoa '09 image sorting, apart from what I did on the trip. I also still need to figure out how I can better fit the clips from my video camera on only one or two DVDs - when I try to do it with the software that came with the camera, I can hardly fit a handful of clips on one DVD-R/+R even though there aren't that many long ones, so that's not practical at all!

The sliver of light on the horizon is my weekend trip to NYC - leaving directly from work on Friday 25th mid morning, and coming back again directly to work on Monday 28th. No big plans except visiting a friend and his daughter, and letting them show me around Queens. *counts the days*


Watched three films made in/about NZ and particularly the Maori over the weekend: River Queen, Whale Rider (again), and Once Were Warriors. All three are good in their own ways, and funny enough, all three feature yummy Maori actor Cliff Curtis in an important role. :) Of course a not so likeable one in the latter (OWW) - it's one of those films that is difficult to watch in places, but the performances were fantastic all around. It really deserves its good reputation! As does Whale Rider, of course, and I also liked River Queen a lot.

Oh well. Time to go back to work... until sometime later!