Stuff and things
Jul. 31st, 2009 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13I went to a poetry reading on Wednesday night. It was good to get out of my house and meet some new people. I met a friend of a friend who is a spoken word artist here in town, and a guy who is a spoken word artist, youth mentor and novelist. He lives five houses away from my former house in Vancouver, which is pretty neat.
Yesterday morning I got up early to drive to Lacombe. I had to go to a field day, which involved standing around looking at plots and learning about various kinds of crops. There were over a 100 people at this field day and it was possibly one of the biggest ones I've been to in a while. I met a neat girl from Edmonton who is specializing in rangeland management.
Last night I watched "Before Night Falls", which is an incredibly movie about the gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. Arenas is wonderfully played by Javier Bardem. I'm not sure why it took me so long to see this film. I absolutely loved it and recommend it to anyone who is interested in writers and the writing life. It's a sad film about persecution. I guess it was made in English, but somehow this didn't register with me, so I ended up watching the entire film in Spanish with English subtitles. Somehow this seemed more fitting.
Today is my one year anniversary in Edmonton!!!! There have been a few ups and downs over the year, but in all honesty, it's been a great year and I feel happier than I've been in a long time. I've been really fortunate to have so many good experiences and meet so many great people this year.
Yesterday morning I got up early to drive to Lacombe. I had to go to a field day, which involved standing around looking at plots and learning about various kinds of crops. There were over a 100 people at this field day and it was possibly one of the biggest ones I've been to in a while. I met a neat girl from Edmonton who is specializing in rangeland management.
Last night I watched "Before Night Falls", which is an incredibly movie about the gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. Arenas is wonderfully played by Javier Bardem. I'm not sure why it took me so long to see this film. I absolutely loved it and recommend it to anyone who is interested in writers and the writing life. It's a sad film about persecution. I guess it was made in English, but somehow this didn't register with me, so I ended up watching the entire film in Spanish with English subtitles. Somehow this seemed more fitting.
Today is my one year anniversary in Edmonton!!!! There have been a few ups and downs over the year, but in all honesty, it's been a great year and I feel happier than I've been in a long time. I've been really fortunate to have so many good experiences and meet so many great people this year.
