You hear that, Mr Andersen?

No flatmate, no Oscar

Well, I'm at home at midday, waiting for the Saturn guy to come connect up my phone and tv. I hadn't really thought about it, but I do use my land line a fair bit - enough that I've really noticed not having it in the last week or two. I'll be seizing the opportunity in a little bit to rustle up some lunch - probably pasta, since the weather's turned cold again.

Other home-based news - still no flatmate. I was going to advertise again at Weta yesterday, but that was the day of the Oscar party, so very few people were ever going to get anything productive done. I'll be placing an online ad with Flat-finder and mailing out to our internal lists one last time today - though I quite like living alone, every dollar I get now is several dollars somewhere down the track.

I've made a valiant attempt on the random boxes of junk that were sitting, waiting to be sorted - it's not done, but there was a significant dent made. I got my china cabinet and chest of drawers back, and things are gradually settling into position. (I could probably still do with a pantry, though.) I look forward to the day when everything is set up and ticking along, and I can stop thinking about it, and instead just come home and blob in front of the TV or computer in the evenings. :)

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The Oscar party wasn't quite as interesting this year - if only because no-one we knew won anything. (One of the people involved with Two Cars, One Night was there, since their partner works for Weta - there would have been a fair amount of cheering for them if they'd won, I suspect.) At least we got name-checked in the Effects award; I hope we at least get nominated next year for Kong, since that makes it all the more likely that I'll still have a job in two years time. ;)

Still, plenty of fun to be had, and got to chat to a whole lot of people I otherwise only see in passing or not at all. Unfortunately, B didn't feel well towards the end, so I still haven't watched the extended RotK; still, that's not going to go away.

Aw - a track from Dark City just came up in my playlist. I really want to get that on DVD sometime.

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I might cut this entry short, and go pull dandelions out of my front lawn while I wait for the cable guy. See you guys about.

Posted by svend at March 1, 2005 12:55 PM