movie night. not.

well, that was a bit of a failed attempt at doing a nice little thing for the residents.

saturday night was slated for a silent movie to be shown on the doorway to the underground. it didn't pan out. actually it bombed out in spectacular fashion - and i don't know if i can even learn any more lessons from it, apart from the fact that shit happens sometimes.

thanks to friday spent having to put out (miscommunication-instigated) spot fires and remove this wall work, i only had saturday to properly prepare. i was still sewing the white screen at 5pm on saturday night - breaking 3 sewing machine needles in the process.

i wasn't really handling it well already.

plus i was trying to organise it all on my own. not a good idea, actually.  i should have organised for mark or one of the others to help.

anyway, in the process of putting up the screen (with tony reck's help), i buggered the roller door.
and then the projection wasn't as good a throw as i remembered.
and then it started to rain.
i realised then that i was going to have to cancel. and it was 7:30 already.
and then kamil the security guy showed up. dammit!

flustered, i managed to run to the ATM to get kamil half his money, seeing as he had showed up. then i rang kaukau to find out what to do about the busted roller door, which she thankfully handled.

i began to take down the projector and speakers, etc and in there somewhere burst into tears. it was kinda ugly. and sad.

anyway, thanks to the shit weather (and not a lot of notice, truth be told), no one really turned up. which was ace and despairing at the same time.

my saturday night ended up being spent sitting with security, chatting about the state of the world, waiting for damian from maintenance to arrive so that he could fix the door.

quite the debácle.

however, i do still think a movie night is in order, so i'll reschedule it. i might try it in a different spot - only because the street light really drowns out the projection. or i'll make sure i get a better projector.

sigh.