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I'm back online! Well, from work now. But internet at home came back yesterday, too.

The weekend was fun. Friday night I went to see Eric Kufs (the singer in Common Rotation who isn't Adam Busch) play at the Bitter End. I like him--he seems sweet and shy. Adam came onstage and played one song with him too, but it was Eric's show and he did well.

I met up there with soulmate815, thefangirl, 10zlaine, and various friends of theirs. Afterwards we went to dinner at a nearby Spanish restaurant, where we stayed until something like 12:30am. Then we left the restaurant and stood outside talking in the cold for another half hour.

Some people went home, and the rest of us headed over to this club in the East Village where we met up with nautibitz, lovebytez, and people they knew. We spent a short time in the club, then went to a coffee shop and hung out for a while longer. At this point most of us were pretty exhausted, so we headed out after a short while.

Anyway, it was an interesting night. And I discovered that quite a few of us are going to be attending the upcoming Creation con in NJ, so I'm very much looking forward to that.

Anyone else going to be at that con?

The rest of the weekend was more calm. I saw Johnny's new movie, Secret Window, on Saturday, and liked it more than I expected. He's wonderful--spends most of the film alone talking to himself, and yet is riveting. Frustratingly, I figured out the "twist" within the first 15 minutes, so it wasn't as thrilling as I'd have liked. Still fun, though--watching Johnny Depp act is always a pleasure. Oh, and I *loved* the ending. :)

Sunday I was going to write up that post about Jaime Lannister, but then queenofthorns suggested that part of Jaime's story is a quest for truth, which I hadn't thought about before. So I'm re-reading and trying to incorporate that into my understanding of his journey. Also, I didn't have any coffee on Sunday, so I had no motivation to get anything done.

Oh, and I watched Nick Brendon's TV movie. *shudders* That's two hours of my life that I'll never get back.

Actually, though, from a gender studies perspective, it was sort of interesting to watch it and think about how issues of gender and sexuality are processed in mainstream popular culture. This film had so many conflicting and poorly thought out ideas all thrown together--for example, its lesson about not judging people by stereotypes was pretty hilarious in the context of it's own egregious stereotyping.

But still, Nicholas Brendon must be getting *really* desperate for work.