ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

(The Internet ATE this post right before I submitted it - stupid Firefox errors! That explains the timestamp on this one, when I'd much rather be in bed...)

Jon picked me up, and we discussed Hannah L. picking her nose / interesting song lyrics / beets / persistence on the way to Nathan's. We actually rang the doorbell to get inside, since Eric still has Jon's key from New Year's. While the neighborhood still has snowbanks, it's certainly not as bad as it was last time! Had good conversation with Phil, Grace, Jeremy, and Nathan: DIM SUM / DUMPLINGS, roasted root vegetables, India Pale Ale, drinking, theology, plans, school, work, blogging, narrative, searching, wedding planning, Michelle's help with a forgotten veil (good thing it wasn't the DRESS!), sushi from SUSHI KING (humungous pieces of sashimi!), the eventual 6-5 shootout loss to the Blue Jackets, and the Osoyoos retreat. Raymond had told me who was going, and it's too bad I can't make it since it seems like a truly good group of people. But since I have to take a Saturday off for Jon's wedding, it might not be a good idea to take another one off for this because I'm sure I've missed a Saturday during the abbreviated club year already. Maybe I should call Melia and ask about that since I never saw her this weekend... although as Grace says, there IS Summer Conference! I remember the last one, especially since little Nathan announced to Eric and me that he had eight crushes already! (he got two new ones on the speaker's twin daughters, which we thought was pretty cute!)

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was interesting in its own way: it's all about Cylons, revealing who IS one, going "back" to Earth after 2000 years away only to find it desolate because of nuclear waste, the characters remembering things which happened in their past, and thirteen colonies. One of the characters even found her own body, which caused her to realize certain things about herself. (she burned her own body, as well) Someone else killed herself after going out with her (ex?) husband, by taking off her wedding ring - she'd given up hope, so morale was low. (not to mention the food supplies!) Jon was half-watching, and half-writing something on the computer.

Phil and Grace watched the pilot episode of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, and then they had to go since Grace had to teach at 10. Jon, Jeremy, Nathan, and I settled in to watch at least eight other episodes (and have gingerbread cookie dough ice cream!) before Jeremy wanted his 16GB stick back - not a problem, if he was willing to wait ten minutes for it to download from there to Nathan's computer! (he's watched all three seasons already) At least things in the show make sense now - you did have to watch the episodes in order, otherwise the subsequent ones won't make sense! Maybe that's why it was cancelled, heh. ("please tell your friends about this show!" says Ron Howard - narrative is very important in the show, especially if it's omniscient!) Jer says the torrent took three days to download because it wasn't very popular or something - I suggested that perhaps it was a seeder problem, to make it appear that I knew something about the process. All I really know is what Corey tells me about them, haha. Episode 3 was unwatchable from the stick, so we all congregated around Nathan's computer to watch it - Nate says that maybe it was a codec problem, which I really don't know anything about.

Jon and I had watched some episodes at Dave's, but not the pilot. Now it all made sense - Lucille Bluth as the controlling manipulative lying mom, George Sr. in prison, Buster as the true mama's boy who is secretly dating his mom's rival (also named Lucille), and Michael as the one trying to hold the family together... but he also likes his brother Job's Spanish girlfriend Marta! Lindsay is Michael's twin sister who loves to shop, and is married to Tobias Funke - he's an aspiring "actor." George Michael is Michael's son, who is attracted to his cousin Maeby - we knew about that, but not that they watched a movie about cousins being lovers! (reminded Jeremy about a situation in his own family - no kids for that couple, because of obvious reasons!)

We watched some hockey highlights: Pittsburgh's uniforms are practically powder blue now?! Jon joked that they could be the Gay Penguins if they had a pink version of the jersey, but it probably wouldn't go over very well! Hahaha! The Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers are in the Super Bowl - hey, they gotta have two weeks of hype to sell the leftover TVs from the holidays! Watched Nathan play a bit of LEGO BATMAN, which looks kinda cute even if it doesn't play very well... then the guys made jokes about how "compassion" and "love" could be interchangeable. Perhaps, but not in the context of your Compassion Child from Compassion Canada! (Jeremy: "You guys have a love child?!" Me: "As a Committee member, I suggest you don't say things like that on a letter!") Jon and I left at 1:15 to find frosted-over windows, so it was SCRAPER TIME! Discussed Craigslist and Facebook on the way home, too. Got home to discover that KQ doesn't have Facebook anymore: fair enough! Qi also unfriended me on there, but that's not a big deal.