一日中机の前

夕方から３時間ほどジムへ。

these truly are my favorite nine days of the year―i LOVE the toronto film fest and i live, eat, sleep and breathe it for its entire duration... heck, i've come home now during a break between movies and i feel like instead of eating a decent meal i should be forsaking nutrition (i do, anyway) and spending my time in the festival village just ABSORBING the whole scene.
yesterday (among other un-noteworthy selections) i also saw "novocaine," the new steve martin movie. it's a really, really dark suspense-comedy (!) about a dentist whose life spirals out of control after he gets involved with one of his patients (helena bonham carter). it was really well-done and very entertaining.
so far today i've seen: "life as a house," an incredibly moving (read: i was bawling) drama about an architect (kevin kline) who learns he's dying and decides to spend his last few months repairing his relationship with his troubled son (hayden christiansen) by building his dream house from scratch. SO sad, but VERY good. betcha it scores a bunch of oscar nominations.
after that, i treated my red, puffy eyes to an incredibly bleak polish drama ("hi, tereska") about a teenage girl growing up in the polish ghettos. according to the director, he found the girl who stars in the film in reform school...and she's since escaped from that school, is in a gang and is wanted by the polish police. needless to say, she was not in attendance at the screening!
happily, that film was followed by "dogtown and z-boys," a wickedly frenetic documentary about stacy peralta and the zephyr skate(boarding) team of the 1970s. stacy directed the movie and the whole experience (for me as an audience member) was pure adrenaline. he was there, as was tony alva (one of the best skateboarders of his time), and the demographic of the audience was totally different than most at the fest―namely: very young. the Q&A after the film was great, and it was amazing to see someone who's so obviously passionate about what he does and his film. it truly made for a great end result.
my last film later today is "carving out our name," a documentary about four up-and-coming actors (including wes bentley and brad rowe). i am praying that it's not a horrible vanity piece... although i suspect it might be.

週明けの月曜日。短縮授業も今日で終わりでござる。明日からは、弁当つき６時間授業の始まり始まり。う〜ん、ちと大変になるかな？
以前、岡山県神郷町の役場で働いている友人から、市民マラソン大会のポスターづくりを頼まれたことがあるのだが、完成したポスターが友人から学校に届いた。う〜ん、なかなかの出来映え。神郷町では１００部ほど作られて町の至る所に貼られているらしい。想像してみると、なんだか嬉しい。頼まれたらまた作ろう。

『鴨はうす』に、『好き好き大好きっ』からの来訪者専用ページが。発見した時の俺の心境。↓
（゜Д゜）
そう、可憐はまさにこういうキャラだと思います。ポン刀が似合う妹。うっかりすると、噛み切られそうなところが萌え。
いやあ、俺ちょっぴりマナマナ好きですし。（←ちょっぴり、というところが重要）
こんな発言ばかりしているから、分類（カテゴリー）Ａ以上のＭとして認識されてしまうわけですが。
シスプリデリバリーヘルスの立て看板。（『森の十字路』）『モーミング娘』というネーミングの着眼もさることながら、
とあるシスプリのアンソロジー本には、シスプリ妹の風俗店というネタが使われており、それを読んでの影響だとしたらある意味本物かと。
『恋愛シミュレーションツクール』続編のキャラ原画は植田亮さん。（『最後通牒』、『森の十字路』より）前作だったら、別にフリーのツールでも十分作れそうだし、キャラ絵も特に……とか思って敬遠していたのですが、今回は、「植田亮さんの絵でギャルゲーが作れる！」というコンセプトがあるので、ちょっぴり欲しくなったり。（植田さんの絵はとても好き）
『変人窟』さん、我らが茜たんの世界へ。　よ　う　こ　そ。

West of the Rio Grande Valley near El Paso, steep slopes rise to the nearly flat plain known as La Mesa Surface. The sediments beneath this surface were laid down before the Rio Grande cut through its pass to the southeast and excavated its present valley. Fossil remains of animals occasionally weather from the lower sediments.
Some, like the camels and horses, had a long evolutionary history in North America. But others, like the 6-foot long relative of the armadillo known as a glyptodont, are unknown from the continent until the late Pliocene. Their absence becomes more mystifying when we learn that earlier, related fossils are common in South America. What kept them out of the North?
The answer, to the geologist, is simple--oceanic waters separated North and South America until just a few million years ago. South America's fauna evolved in isolation for many millions of years, until the restless earth finally made the land connection that allowed the faunal movement between the continents in what paleontologists recognize as the Great American Interchange.