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First things first: piper47 - I did not see your IM until this morning - AIM has been opening and closing itself willy-nilly on me all weekend (more on that later). Yes - VVC deadline is today for ALL vids. The deadline is until Midnight either EST or CST. To be safe? Go with EST. Or just check out the FAQ at vividcon, cause I really do not know what I am talking about.

Things to be grateful for:

I have friends like sockkpuppett and tzikeh and kadymae and mlyn. Lum and tzikeh for hand-holding and geek squad enabling and just general everything this weekend when my computer went KABLOOEY less than 32 hours before the VVC deadline. Kadymae of the gift of Birds of Prey and fangirl squee and M'lyn for the gift of due South Season 4. I have it on very good authority that Fraser gets the shit beaten out of him in Season 4 and I have already identified the potential footage for this by watching vids so I am very excited. I like my Mountie bruised and a bit bloody. Or in church. Ohh - bruised and bloody in church. That would be so freakin' cool.

So - sweetestdrain - let me know when you are ready for S3 and we can then marathon the rest!

My computer bit the big one this weekend. It was an ex-computer. It was pining for the Fjords. Actually - not really - but my OS fucked up but good and there was much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth and at one point I had to look into the future and accept that there is a very real possibility that I will not be able to send any vid at all to this year's VVC. And it turns out that I am okay with that. I'm not happy about it, but I don't think that it would impede in my enjoyment of the con at all. Gah - I just want to be there. Actually having a vid is just icing and while I had hoped that my attitude was shifting in this direction - I am glad to have proof that this is my real and deep down feeling.

Luckily - thanks again to Lum and tzikeh, it looks like I will be able to get my premiere vid in on time. So yay! I am really thrilled. My computer works again and I think I have almost all of my data. These are good things.

Due to stress I watched A LOT of movies this weekend:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - I liked it well enough, but I had sufficient difficulty in believing in and also sympathizing with the premise and so it never really touched me the way I thought it could. I just... there was a scene with a man in the waiting room and he is holding a trophy and part of me wondered if this was his son's belonging and that movie - I'd like to see that movie.

American Splendor: I forget how much I adore this movie until I watch it again and everytime I am just thwapped upside the head with "OMG, I LOVE this movie!"

Anchorman: I lost it when WF started yelling "I freaking LOVE you!" and I never got it back. Just... Dude - STAY CLASSY!

Seabiscuit: Due to oversaturation of the Lexington market with this movie (everyone I know is like "I was an extra in Seabiscuit! It is the best movie eva!) I avoided this despite being interested in the subject and loving that little Tobey Maguire. I don't know if it was stress or hormones or what but I cried at 3 separate times during this movie and the last time I cried I couldn't even tell you what I was crying about. It is just... That horse had HEART y'all!!! I am a sucker for this - total and complete wimp. I am getting choked up just thinking about it now.

The English Patient: Psych! I didn't really watch this. I've actually never been able to sit thru this entire movie and I was flipping thru HBO and it was in its final minutes so I watched just to see what the hell happened and yeah - I still hate this movie. Like passionately hate. Like I read this story where it is Fraser's turn to pick the movie and he chooses this film and yeah - I can see that. He would. But dude - that is my personal dealbreaker. If someone loved me - really really love me - he would not do that to me, expect me to sit through this movie. I can't imagine... I'd rather sit through the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre with my eyes and ears completely open and my hands tied down and my head stationary so I can't look away (I am terrified of this movie) than sit through The English Patient. I'd rather have the numbing shots at the dentist office deep in the corners of my jaw than sit through that movie. I'd rather be a claims adjuster for the rest of my life than sit through that movie.

Now I am terrified that I will meet someone and fall in love and everything will be perfect and suddenly and without warning this movie will show up and ruin everything.