Hm, good to know.

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adorable, but a little out there. It's alright,
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Still at work, wasting time instead of working on stupid meeting minutes from 2 days ago. Yesterday was hideous, mainly because I had a meeting every 2 hours which really does not give you enough time to get anything else done, and on top of that generates piles and piles of additional work. Gah.

For those of you who have been waiting with bated breath: date was fine. Not world-shattering. He's very nice (sense of humour: check, willing to drive for an hour in lousy weather to take me to a movie: check), but there was just no real meeting of the minds. And he mostly talks about himself, not in a bad obnoxious way, but not in an I'd-really-like-to-get-to-know-more-about-you way either (is that self-centered of me? But I think there ought to be some conversational give and take, not just the two parties giving alternate monologues). And he doesn't read. (Again, not necessarily a drawback, and has excellent taste in movies so obviously not philistine, but...) Went to late movie (About Schmidt), went home, that was about it.

Party at his house Saturday. If I make a miraculous recovery and rise from my sickbed I might go. Then again I might just let the whole thing die out quietly.

On the plus side, I'm feeling pretty OK on the whole about the prospect of being single for the rest of my life. It comes and goes...

Update

Read all about yesterday's fire. I can see that lamppost from the window -- our offices are up and to the right.

A tale of two columnists

Dear me, dear me.

John Doyle had this to say about Farscape today:

Farscape (tonight, Space, 9 p.m.) is a big deal, I am informed. A sci-fi show with a small but fanatical following (there are 19 Web sites devoted to it), it starts its fourth and final season tonight. The announcement that this was the final season brought mail from people who wanted my support to keep it going. Alas, I wasn't what you'd call intimate with it.

It's the darndest thing, actually. This astronaut fella Crichton (Ben Browder) accidentally moseyed through a wormhole, as so often happens. He found himself at the far end of the galaxy, in the middle of a war between factions of funny-looking people. He has many adventures.

Now, you probably know that all of these lost-in-space shows have a babe. (The Canadian show Lexx relied entirely on the boobs of a female character to generate interest and keep geeks watching.) Well, Farscape has three babes -- a blonde, a brunette and a redhead. Thus it has all the bases covered for keeping geeks enthralled. The blonde, a character named Chiana (the charmingly named Gigi Edgley), is the star. Oh, there are guys with three eyes, but Chiana is still the star. Farscape is idiotic, but if you've got a taste for sci-fi silliness, you should know about it.

(Full column posted here.)

As a result, he got this in his inbox:

( Grrrrrr. )

And if anyone else wants to join in the merriment, his email address is jdoyle@globeandmail.ca. Oh yeah. Is he ever gonna be sorry.

Contrast this with Basem Boshra of the Montreal Gazette, who wrote the following:

What else is on? Regular readers will know that science fiction isn't really my bag, but fans of the genre swear by Farscape (Space, 9 to 10 p.m.), a series that follows the escapades of a lost American astronaut (Ben Browder) as he lives on a spaceship with aliens in a galaxy far, far away and does battle with the Human-appearing Peacekeepers while he tries to figure out a way home. (The series features expensive-looking F/X and creatures designed by the Oscar-winning The Jim Henson Company, which needs no introduction.)

Problem is, Farscape -- which originates out of the Sci-Fi channel in the U.S. -- is slated for cancellation following this, its fourth season, which kicks off on Space tonight. Sci-fi fans are a hearty bunch though, and Farscape fans -- they call themselves "Scapers" -- around the world have launched far-reaching campaigns to save their favourite show. Check out www.farscape.com to track their progress.

Now there's a nice reasonable friendly column. To toss a few roses his way, email bboshra@thegazette.southam.ca.