in the meantime...

photo appropriated, with thanks, from j-pad

* the wedding blog entry is taking longer than i thought it would. deciding what to write about was difficult and, even after making a decision, i’ve been finding the words hard to get right. or to get at all. it was an emotional day, and i’m still working on sorting through and organizing feelings. please stand by. it’s coming... just not today. in the meantime, here’s a photo of the wedding cake and (very large, very rich, very chocolate-y, very delicious) individual mini-cakes the guests enjoyed. one whole mini-cake per person. so very tasty.

* yesterday, i went to my new dentist for the first time. if you recall, my previous dentist died earlier this year and, though i met the new dentist very briefly at the end of march, yesterday was my first official x-rays-and-everything-else visit. thanks to her high-tech digital x-ray machine, she found a teeny cavity between two of my front teeth. so...

* today, i went back to my new dentist for my filling. she’d initially thought i might need two tiny ones, but it turned out one would do the trick. now, i’ve had so many fillings and so much dental work over the years that the procedure doesn’t bother me, and i don’t get nervous about needles or drills or what have you. been there, done that, no worries. but my new dentist, dr. m, was nonetheless super-duper-gentle and reassuring and holycrapfast. it was easily the best filling i’ve ever had done. i was in and out in 20 minutes. and that included the wait-for-the-freezing-to-kick-in time.

* back in june, i wrote about a documentary i watched in 1991 and the follow-up film that was broadcast last year. i was on the waiting list for the toronto public library’s sole copy of the DVD and it finally arrived for me. i picked it up earlier today, and i can’t believe i’m finally going to see what happened to all these young doctors in the 19 years since i saw them last. i’m saving it as a treat. or trying to, anyway. i may cave and watch it tonight.

* this afternoon, i also renewed the registration on my screenplay with the writers’ guild of canada. i’d first registered it in december five years ago, and the term was expiring in a couple of months, so the guild sent me a “renew it or lose it” reminder. and it was something of a bittersweet moment – i remember when i first registered it, how excited and determined i was to bring it to life. that plan fizzled in the months that followed and then lay dormant until last fall, when it was revived and i was once again excited and determined. that plan died and the screenplay has now been put away again, probably for good. so renewing its registration felt like something of a lie... as though i was making a promise i already know i won’t keep.