5 June 1998: The Truman Show

Friday, 5 June 1998:

The Truman Show

The downside to today is that I had the following lesson more-or-less confirmed for me: If she hasn't shown any sign of interest in me in the last year-and-a-half, she ain't gonna start now.

On the other hand, I think I'm finally coming to terms with this. It's taken a while. But I've been given to understand that I'm not the only one who's had to scale this mountain on occasion.

I started plugging away at work on my latest Big, Urgent Project. It may actually turn out to be less difficult than I'd feared, but we'll see. Monday I have to move past the preparation and design phase, and start building stuff. Actually I think this will be a fairly decent project to finish up this period before my vacation with, since I don't think there are many possible hidden surprises in it. It's mostly mundane database stuff.

Tonight I went to dinner with a friend of mine whom I feel like I see only occasionally. I guess I really see her more often than that, but it's usually in group contexts, which as you probably know seem to be rather weird to me anyway. We tried a pretty good Middle Eastern place in town that neither of us had been to. She off-handedly suggested that making a habit of trying new restaurants like that might not be a bad idea. I'm all for that!

Afterwards we jammed our way in to the The Truman Show, which debuted today. I guess it's a bit of a misnomer to call it "the new Jim Carrey movie", since it seems to be basically unlike everything else he's done (most of which I only know about from having heard about them second-hand). It's a relatively dark film, although with some touching moments. It really felt like a typical science fiction short story, since it has a neat idea, plays a single riff on that idea, but leaves open huge possibilities to the viewer's imagination. If it were a short story, it's the sort of thing that the author might later expand into a novel.

Anyway, I give it a thumbs up. It has a cool soundtrack, too. And one of the supporting actresses looks like she's Jane Seymour's younger sister. Not that I object to this, mind you!

So all-in-all it's been a good day. Here's hoping the weekend is as good.

Michael Rawdon (Contact)