Misplaced Priorities

In yet another brazen acquiescence to my personal priorities (over my seemingly more important professional ones) I cancelled my weekly "status meeting" with the explanation that I had an unavoidable conflict. Which is true. I am very conflicted. I hold my meetings at 10:30am every Tuesday to make sure everyone working the program is on the same page and since things are slow right now the weeklys have become more a formality than anything else -- yet one more reason as to why I am desperate to find a new job. But that isn't what we are here to to talk about today.

One dumb thing about holding meetings on a Tuesday, if you happen to be pathetically media-obsessed, is that Tuesday is national release day for new albums and DVD's. Today's release is especially important because this is now finally available to the viewing public.

That's right the original unaltered, unedited, un-ruined Star Wars Trilogy in DVD format. Fans have begged for years for this release and Lucas finally gave in, but not without a little "fuck you" to everyone that has called him a megalomaniacal lunatic over the pas ten years. Instead of giving us the beautifully restored version released on DVD two years ago with a new 5.1 surround mix -- a version that contained all of the blasphemies from the "Special Edition" release -- all we get is a DVD dump of the Laserdic release from the 80's with its Dolby 2-channel mix. But I will take it. And since Best Buy is carrying a limited run of The Trilogy bundled together in a special "collector's" tin, I have to be there before the store opens at 10am thus conflicting with my weekly status meeting. Fortunately for me no one around here is too nosey and I did not have to make up a lie about a doctor's appointment.

All told, after this morning I will now own four different sets of the Holy Trilogy in various formats and versions. And my mother wonders why I am still single...