This Valentines AH is playing a show at my favourite bar in town and I am home doing homework. I am mightily pleased for him, he seems to have found people he likes AND likes playing with, which is the ideal combination of course. I guess I could have gotten a babysitter, but uh, it's Valentine's Day. And trying to stay out after 11 pm with a friend babysitting is a bit much. They have a life too. But that's okay. I made heart-shaped blueberry and chocolate chip pancakes and blood orange / strawberry smoothies for breakfast. We went for a daylong walk, stopping for coffee and chocolate, a new CD, thrift shopping, afternoon beers and crosswords and home to a family nap in the sun. In other words, it was pretty perfect.
We did have a pretty heated discussion though, over the same old territory of where to live when I'm done - again! He'd like me to plan and I'm trying but part of it is just seeing what comes up when you're ready to go into the work world. I think he's worried I'll accept a job in Indiana or something without telling him, which is crazy. Over the same beers as mentioned before, we wrote out a list of "Definitely", "Maybe" and "No Way" places and that seemed to soothe him. If you're wondering, Wyoming didn't make the cut.

Edited to add unsolicited multimedia review: I should be doing homework but instead I watched Fatih Akin's latest movie (The Edge of Heaven) and while it didn't quite hit the mark of "Head On" I just love love love him. I found the making of a perfect little treatise of filmmaking. I am also watching TAL TV show (on DVD from library) and am excited to find C. Wilcha is the Director - I've seen "the target shoots first" many times. what I am not happy about is letting Jonathan Goldstein appear on it - I hated him on the CBC - and wrote to them to tell them Wiretap was the worst show ever - I hate him on TAL, always turning down the volume when he appears, and now here he is, the most self-obsessed man in the universe, on the TV show trying to upstage teen comedians. I just seriously googled "I hate Jonathan Goldstein" for 15 minutes which tells me that: 1) I should give up the pretense of homework and just go to bed. 2) there is no definitive "I hate Jonathan Goldstein" resource out there. 3) perhaps I should start one. 4) "Jonathan Goldstein sucks" also yielded few results 5) wouldn't it be great to have a Haters Google where you enter the name of the product/person etc. and only see the negative hits? Good for consumer product purchase worries, personal paranoia and sharing the glee of really despising a media personality with others. My next iPhone app!