MLK Day in Park City

Today I worked the 7 am shift.  I found out that the buses don't run that early, so I hoofed it.  It was only a 20 minute walk and the weather was decent--in the low teens at that hour.  I spent my first hour on the phone to the help desk when the login wouldn't connect -- it felt a  lot like real  work.  I also caught 2 films: Animation Spotlight (shorts) and Touchy Feely starring Alison Janney and Ellen Page.  Both were fun.  Food today was all but free.  I got breakfast at the hotel/hostel where I am staying.  They say they open at 7 am, but I have had breakfast at 6:00 am  twice already.  It is a self serve affair, so they seem pretty low key about it.  At work there were bagels and cream cheese and pizza for lunch.  I ate dinner at the Kowalski-like grocery and they accepted my "grub stub" which gave me $6.00 worth of food.  I splurged and bought a bottle of 3/2 beer.  It felt very decadent. 

I have yet to see any movie stars  on the street, but I did have a fairly lenthy conversation with a woman who told me she was a Mormon (after I asked her where the nearest liquor store was -- oops) She allowed that although she didn't drink, she had purchased wine and (heavens!) even spirits (her words) for recipes.  She was quite talker and we stood together in line for about an hour chatting.  Now that is something that doesn't happen in Minnesota -- meeting Mormons and talking to strangers for an hour.  

I traded shifts on Sunday to enable me  to attend an 8 hour screening of a Jane Campion mini-series.  I arrived at the theatre at 7:15 am and got in the volunteer line.  There were 20 tickets for volunteers and I was 3rd in line.  At 8 am they handed out the tickets and I hurried to the coffee shop to warm up and get caffinated.  The show started at 9.  After 2 hours we had a 10 minute stretch break.  After another 2 hours they fed us a bag lunch and we had 1/2 an hour.  We then returned to our seats for the final 2 hours.  At the end of the screening, Jane Campoin, Holly Hunter and the rest of the cast came on stage and and talked about the filming and answered questions from the audience.  It was phenomenal.  

The last movie I will mention was entitled Two Mothers.  It is based on a true story by Doris Lessing about 2 women who grow up together, marry, live next door to each other, and have sons in the same year.  When the boys are 18/19 years old, the women have affairs with each others' sons.  Controversial, to say the least.  The cast was interesting -- Naomi Watts and Robin Wright play the mothers.  Naomi was at the screening as well as the director and the 2 young men.