Force Awakens

縁があって、スターウォーズの新作を公開初日の最初の回に見ることができました。
それも３Dで。３Dは頭痛くなるから好きじゃないんだけど、最初の10分以降はそれほど気にせずにみることができました。
コスプレーヤーを楽しみにしてたんだけど、ジェダイがちらほらいた以外は皆さん普通の格好で、ちょっと残念。（まぁ、私も仕事帰りの服だけど）

Thursday morning, I noticed that the electric message board over the highway said "Trust the Force, but buckle up." Turns out, the Department of Transportation likes to put the message with a slight joke to get drivers' attention, and it was not their first time using movie/cultural reference.

I was working on a deadline at work all morning, and had to skip lunch to get everything ready by the 3 o'clock meeting. When I was done with the meeting, I got a message from MOTH that he had brought two extra sandwiches home from his lunch meeting. Yes! I don't have to cook dinner! Since I was so starving, I worked my 8 hours and left the office at 4.

I got home around 4:30. MOTH was already home (it was his last day of work until after the New Year's). I was about to go change my clothes to walk the dogs, and he got a  phone call on his work cell phone. He goes: "Yeah, I'm already home.... Oh really? That's great... Do you want me to pick you up? ...Ok, I'll see you in a bit" then he turned to me and said "We are going to the Star Wars movie tonight, so don't change your clothes." I guess the Force was with me, huh? I shoved the sandwich in my stomach in 10 minutes ;)

So, yeah, I was able to watch the new Star Wars movie on the opening night for the first showing. It feels like I was part of the history, considering it was probably the biggest movie opening ever.

What was disappointing though was that there were only so few cosplayers at the theater. I was expecting the whole cosplay party, but alas, no. There were a few Jedi and a Padme, and that was it.

Anyway, it had been a couple of years since we went to a movie theater last so it was fun.