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Hello, I’m on blog content writing hiatus (maybe?) while I take the time to fix some small blog bugs that I’ve been putting off fixin’ as well as ummm… paying attention to some things in my life that I’ve put on the backburner. It has only been a week since the first inaugural post and I’m already so bored with the whole thing. Who has been reading my public stuff and why? Speak up. The public side of fruityoaty.com could disappear today and I can count the piddlin’ number of people who would miss it!

Toronto International Film Festival started today, but for me, it begins tomorrow. I’m really looking forward to going again. This year, I did unbelievably well in getting all my 1st film choices. Out of 40 boxes in total this year, Box 22 was the first box of orders to be processed in the Advance Ticketing Procedure.

For the uninitiated, the TIFF advance draw (lottery) for those who purchased passes and / or coupons works this way:

A limited number of passes and coupons are sold to the public. When it’s time, these people exchange their envelope vouchers for order envelopes, next they select their 1st film picks (with yellow highlight marker) and 2nd choices (with green highlight marker), and then drop off the order envelopes with corresponding drop-off vouchers before the lottery deadline which was Friday, Sep. 1, 1:00 PM this year. A number is drawn at 1:00 PM and that box number (of orders) is processed first. After your order is processed, you then pick up your printed movie tickets (and possibly, some exchange coupons for the films you didn’t get) with a pick-up voucher. I guess the system is as fair and organized as it can be.

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