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2.5.09

Spent the day with Danny downtown, and really had a good time. We saw an early afternoon showing of X-Men Origins: Wolverine at the AMC by Dundas Square, and used some excellent coupons for a free drink and popcorn. "Regular" size concession items are massive! I did not finish either the popcorn or the drink, though for the former, it was due to the fact that I don't actually really like popcorn, and it was very difficult to get the self-serve butter "flavouring" down into the bottom of the bag.

The movie itself was pretty entertaining - there was some rather fun unintentionally funny bits. I cracked up every time they noted that Logan's location was the "Canadian Rockies", and of course, the entire theatre enjoyed his "I'm Canadian" comment. When the scene about the adamantium bullets happened, there were several groans from the theatre, and Danny and I laughed quite a bit at that scene too.

The thing I love about the recent Marvel movies are the glimpses into the rest of the universe - things like Gambit's character, and a young, mobile Xavier. There are two separate extra scenes, one right after the end of the movie, and one after the credits. We stayed for both of course, though we didn't actually know if there would be an extra scene. I read somewhere that there were alternate endings available, depending on the theatre, and I wonder if they meant the extra scenes - I'll have to look it up online.

After the movie, we spent some time in Indigo, looking at books and comics and just talking. We had dinner at a Japanese restaurant just before Bloor, off Yonge, that specialised in okonomiyaki, which I've never had before. It's an interesting pancake type-dish, with cabbage in the batter, and choices of meat to add. They top it with a ketchup and (as we looked up afterward) Worcestershire sauce, which gives it an excellent barbeque-y flavour. Our only complaint was that the pancakes were rather small for a dinner meal.

We went back to Danny's afterward, and I saw his new Toronto home for the next four months. We lay around on his mattress on the floor (the prior tenants had taken the bed frame) and talked about many random things. That's my favourite part of spending time with Danny - we never run out of things to talk about. He's always got an educated opinion on everything, and it's just fun. So I count today as an excellent day.

10:00 p.m. // this is my reality \\

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