half weekend

Yesterday afternoon/evening uilos and I metroed into the District and met up with a number of good people. We had a decent Greek dinner at Yanni's, and then realised that we were still way early. So on someone's suggestion I led the way to a park on Macomb Street I'd passed a few months earlier. It turned out to have some pretty good playground equipment, including a pole with a small wheel mounted on top for spinning on. Good times.

And then we went and saw Inception at the Uptown, which I liked a lot: it's got a neat premise (stealing information from people's dreams), and it's a caper movie, and the plot twists rather neatly, which are all things that pull me in. (More anon.) There were three scenes I specifically recalled from the trailers: the folding city I didn't think twice about because it was so obviously something that would Look Cool in a trailer; the tied-up rotating people made me think "ah, that's what that was!"; and "You've got to dream a little bigger, darling" irritated me because the build-up would have been really effective if I hadn't already known what the payoff was going to be.

(Best line: "I bought the airline. It seemed simpler." Best line not spoken by Ken Watanabe: "Well, it was worth a shot." Mostly for Ellen Page's expression afterwards.)

I think at the back of my mind was a thought process along the lines of "movie starts at 10:50, and that starts with a 10 so it'll probably be done by one and home by 1:30-2ish." Yeah, not so much. We walked in the door as the clock was chiming three. I Slept until 10:30 or so and could easily have gone for another couple of hours, but I needed to be up and moving for rebelsheart's D&D game. Which went decently well despite my attempts to nod off in the middle.

And then I came home and uilos made eggs Halifax (like Benedict but with smoked salmon instead of ham) for dinner, because we were neither of us functional enough for it to have been a good breakfast.

It's been a reasonably good twenty-four-plus hours.