I actually left for work before Carrie did, but I didn't have to pick her up for lunch because she was already on her way up to Bellingham for the Bellingham Bead Festival. I made gnocci for myself, watched 60s British spy television, and got awfully drowsy.
After working some in the afternoon I went out to Office Depot to buy some binder clips and then Michael's to buy some felt glue. I bought the binder clips because the last time I was at Sandy & Mathias's place they'd put up a tonne of the stuff they'd collected in Japan. And they had a most ingenious way of putting stuff up on their walls, which involved attaching binder clips to the piece, and then securing the binder clips to the wall with thumbtacks. It makes it so it's incredibly easy to switch out your wall hangings; just unclip it and put something else up there. It also has the added advantage of not putting holes in your posters. Very nice!
So when I got home I hung up my Lost in Translation poster (after a couple of years of just having it propped up on my top toy shelf), and then I hung up my nerd-cred stuff:
Up top there is my issue #2 of the Serenity ("Those Left Behind") miniseries, signed by Jewel Staite herself (many, many thanks to Brandy for picking it up for me at NY Comic Con). Down below is issue #1 of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 ("The Long Way Home") comic. Note how the binder clips are only attached to the packaging of the comics, so as not to damage the comics themselves in any way. Suh-weet. And, yes, you'll notice that both of those comics were penned by Joss Whedon. Well, that's because the only comic books I actually collect were written by Joss Whedon. I'd put up an issue of Astonishing X-Men, too, but I only collect the Trade Paperbacks of that series. The only thing that would make this wall of my office any more nerdy was if I had a framed poster of Serenity instead of Lost in Translation (unfortunately the Serenity poster, like most artwork generated for that film, is pretty crappy, so I probably won't get it).
Anyway, in the evening I had my own little Sam Raimi movie fest. I watched The Quick & The Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness all in a row whilst I worked on a felt project. Then I went to bed all by my lonesome lonely self while Carrie was way up in Bellingham.
