Apr. 17th, 2005

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We had our Toronto Trek Programming Department meeting today to edit the Programme Book listings... all 184 panels that were in the database as of last night (out of about 246 planned). I managed to get to Finch station by 9:30 to meet [livejournal.com profile] kosst_amojan; he showed off the damage to his car from the truck that tried to push him off the road last week (Red Green would be so proud!), and then we were off. We arrived at the hotel at about 10:05; things got off to a bit of a rocky start as we had to wait for [livejournal.com profile] dx4 to show up with the hard copies of the panel lists, but once he arrived things got off to their usual silliness. After striking the 25th comma I started singing, "comma, comma, comma, comma, comma chameleon..." And for some reason a lot of panel descriptions include the phrase "Come and discuss..." So naturally there were a lot of "come" jokes and associated innuendoes. When we got to the Andromeda panel, there were references to the episode known as "Day Of Leather, Day Of Arse." This was followed by comments about spanking [livejournal.com profile] kosst_amojan and tying up [livejournal.com profile] dx4... and [livejournal.com profile] dx4 was occasionally punctuating [livejournal.com profile] ozreison's and my comments by throwing pens at us from across the table. (He knocked it off after he almost hit me in the eye with one... it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye, then it's NHL hockey.)

In other words, it was a pretty typical Programming Department meeting, aside from the fact that it lasted eight hours and our typical meetings don't generally include debates about whether punctuation belongs inside or outside quotation marks. Now, [livejournal.com profile] gurudata, aren't you glad you decided not to join us? :)

We broke for lunch around 3 having gotten through about half of the list, but lunch took longer than we would have liked because we had to wait for someone from the hotel to come around and lock up the room while we were gone. We went across the street to Harvey's (mmm... Angus Steak Burger!) and then came back, renewed and full of vigour and plowed through the second half in a little over two hours. Things got a little tense toward the end as I didn't want to gloss over one particular panel description but a few folks seemed to be eager to get going. (Yeah, I know it was 6:10... but I think we do this every year. The panels starting with A-M are edited pretty tightly, but N-Z are edited more loosely because we start rushing to get out at a decent hour.)

Next step, after getting the 62 outstanding panels into the database: the scheduling meeting, June 4. Another 8 hour meeting, though that one always seems to go faster, probably because we're moving around the room and playing with Post-It notes.

Anyway, we got through it (minus the 62 hours of panels still to be created or entered into the database), and [livejournal.com profile] kosst_amojan gave me a lift back to the subway. We had quite an interesting discussion on the way about whether the government will fall before C-38 (the same-sex marriage bill) becomes law, and whether the Conservative Party will invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to ban same-sex marriage if they form the next government, and whether I should have made more of a fuss a few years ago when my ex got remarried (it's sobering to think that I might have been able to impact Canadian politics just because I kept our wedding album and so could have proven that he wasn't eligible to have the banns read) or whether it was better for me not to stand in the way of something I actually want just to spite the man who cheated on me. (Well, I say I actually want it. I need to find a boyfriend who won't dump me on day 21 before I start thinking about getting married again.)

So... I got home around 7 or thereabouts, dropped my backpack with a resounding "thud" (I think my TT binder currently weighs about 10 pounds, after getting all of last year's panelist surveys back from Dave G.), dealt with a few pressing items, then sat down on the couch and turned on the television. This new series that Space has been pimping for weeks, "Charlie Jade", was coming on at 8. It didn't actually seem to be as interesting as I would have thought, as I'm not really into film noir/near-future/alternate-world stories; the commercials played up the alternate-world angle but completely failed to mention that the lead character was a cross between Ryan Reynolds and Sam Spade. I think I was asleep on the couch by about 8:10. [livejournal.com profile] ozreison called a little while after that, and I went back to sleep after a short conversation. As [livejournal.com profile] elizard100 said, after eight hours of "come" jokes and comments about Michael Shanks' leather-clad butt, spanking [livejournal.com profile] kosst_amojan and tying up [livejournal.com profile] dx4, what did I dream about during my nap? Removing commas and adding new variations of the "Geek Off" trivia game panel... *facepalm*

I woke up around 11 and finally got to watch this week's Enterprise episode, "Bound". It was okay, but nothing special. It could have been much worse, but the actresses playing the Orion Slave girls seemed to actually be capable of acting, and didn't just play up the campy T&A the way they might have. (Poor Kelby - the writers just keep dumping on him, and yet we know nothing about him at all. We've only ever seen him when he's being criticized for not being Trip.) I know a lot of people don't like namedropping as continuity, but I was amused by T'Pol's reference to the dragons on Berengaria VII previously referred to in TOS' "This Side Of Paradise". I also enjoyed the revelation at the end - it made a certain amount of sense, though spoilers... ) The final Trip/T'Pol scene didn't bother me nearly as much as I thought it would, though I could have done without T'Pol calling Trip back the second time and her subsequent actions. I'm just not into the whole 'shipping thing. (Unless it's Reed/Hayes. *grin*)

[livejournal.com profile] cuteteenboy called to invite me out with him and his bf around 12, but I was too exhausted to even contemplate it. Pity, because these are the kinds of days when one needs a beer... though I probably wouldn't have gotten one, because his bf is underage. We could have gone to tonight's Hop together, as they have a separated bar area for the ancient ones like myself who are legally allowed to drink, but they'd already been there and decided to leave (and bumped into [livejournal.com profile] kosst_amojan, as it happens).

Anyway, so it's now 4AM and I'm still awake. I'll probably go to bed shortly, though... I thought about going after I woke up from my nap, but I figured that I'd probably wake up around now and completely screw up my system.

In the "it's a small world" department, today [livejournal.com profile] ozreison, [livejournal.com profile] travellingone and [livejournal.com profile] artifuss were telling me about this guy they met at ConneXions who goes by the name of [livejournal.com profile] minotaurs around here, and how they all thought he and I would get along really well. So I checked out his LJ, and it turns out we have two friends in common from the Gaylactic Network, and we might actually have met at last year's Gaylaxicon, since he lives in the city where it took place. It always amuses me when these little coincidences happen. They seem to be more common in fandom nowadays, with so many of us being online.

Though I know I seem to have something of a reputation, because when I went to last year's Gcon I met a guy who was also from Toronto but whom I'd never met before, and his first words upon reading my badge were, "Oh, you're the Lance!" Yeah. The Lance. Like there's only one. Kind of like Cher, Madonna or Maradona (now there's an unholy threesome), I only need one name now. I mean, I could kind of understand Shaun Lyon knowing who I was even though we'd never met, because he's good friends with my ex-bf Scott through Doctor Who fandom. But I don't expect that kind of thing to happen generally.

In non-fannish news, I have "Outbreak" on TV right now. It sounds weird to hear Donald Sutherland identifying himself as a U.S. general and threatening to blow a pilot out of the sky for not landing at the nearest Air Force base... somehow lines like that just don't work coming from him. Must be the Canadian accent.

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