Film Fest 2005 - encore

She is beautiful. She wants to know if I started a line yet for the next movie which doesn't start until 90 minutes from now. She's back!!!

Everything falls into place as all of a sudden I know what to do - an offer that she won't be able to refuse: I have a pair of tickets for the Zoom film makers party and when she'll come out of the theater, I'll ask her to join me and she will gladly accept. The show is over and I'm ready to make my move when I realize that people are already leaving the theater through another door and she is running down the stairs in front of me. She is rushing out to her car, maybe to the restroom; it doesn't matter. I'm never going to see her again.

Ten minutes later I'm wandering on the first floor and.... there she is: first in line for the midnight movie. She still looks lovely. We finally exchange introductions. She's excited about the Zoom party but her sister is in town so she won't be able to make it. Dan calls me on the radio and my assistance is needed to handle a situation in theater 1.

I still don't have her phone number. So close and yet so far. Miyako is her name. And I will never see her again. Again.

Tomorrow I'll be working at the Aquarius theater in Palo Alto. The first screening starts at noon and the program guide describes the movie as a fascinating speculation on history, wish fulfilment and the eternal question "What if?".....