iPod NANO and Jeans Marines

Treated myself to an iPod nano (8 GB) YAY! It is slim enough to run with and still stores photos so I can have mini photo-slideshows with music on my iPod. AWESOME!

The International Documentary Challenge is 1 week away!!! My co-conspirator Tamara is on board and we are gearing up with discussion, research and equipment gathering. We get our topic on Thursday March 1 at 8am - then we'll know what we're shooting next weekend!

Meanwhile, I started running and joined Jeans Marines - an incredible and inspiring group of women. I run every Saturday morning at 8:00am but also need to fit in a run during the week (the hard part). Work is still insane but some of my co-workers are keeping me laughing.

Incredibly, I haven't seen all the Best Picture nominees before the Oscars (truly a break with tradition for haikugirl) - I will share my Oscar picks in another post. However, I will rent The Departed this week and may squeeze in a screening of the upcoming The Number 23 with Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen.

Happy Powrie Birthday!

February 20, 2007 marks a very special day. Richard's father Ted Powrie turns 80 and his grandson Brendan also celebrates a birthday. And 2 days later on February 22nd, Ted's daughter Jennifer (Rich's sister) celebrates her birthday. Ted was in excellent spirits when we talked to him on his day.

Happy Birthday to ALL the Powries and MANY MORE!

February is
Happy Powrie Birthday month
Celebrate today!

SuperBowl ads

My brother Sam sent me this link to the the clever U.S. commercials on SuperBowl Sunday. Let me know which ones you like. I enjoyed the Moon Office (FedEx), Snickers, GoDaddy.com and couldn't believe the Toyota ramp (don't try that at home). Also enjoyed Prince at the halftime show. He did a great job in the (purple) rain...

http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/postseason/superads

Great to spend time with my book club - we reviewed Any Tan's Saving Fish From Drowning.

haikugirl at the AGO

Met a dear colleague for beer o'clock at our pub downstairs. Then over to the AGO to take in the Ansel Adams / Alfred Eisenstaedt exhibition. The photos blew me away! Incredible to think that both were contemporaries but had such different styles and perspectives. Although Ansel Adams' work is beautiful I think I liked better.

Was thinking of going to see a movie tonight at Cinematheque: LA-BAS. - Grand Prize winner at the Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille. Thought it might get me in the mood for the International Documentary Challenge which I'm going to be doing in less than a month from now: March 1-5. The premise: script, shoot and edit a 7 minute documentary in less than 5 days - but you don't get assigned your topic until 8am Thursday March 1st. A very appealing prospect and I am very excited about taking part. In the meantime I'm recruiting my crew and building my Mac editing skills so stay tuned for updates.

Another project is to start jogging. Did a couple runs in sunny FLL - tomorrow morning I will run again but it will be MUCH colder... Still need to see The Queen and Dreamgirls before the Oscars. Looking forward to some schmaltz with Music and Lyrics starring Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant - starts Valentine's Day.