Today (meaning Saturday), Matt and I finally saw “Batman Begins.” Because the movie’s already been open a month and a half, we didn’t think we’d need to get there very far in advance. But the theater turned out to be crowded, although we luckily found the last pair of adjacent stadium-level seats at the end of the last row. I got to stretch out my right leg against a stairway pole. The movie was terrific, punctuated only by my occasional hacking coughs (which I tried to do only during loud moments) and nose-blowing. I was quite struck by Cillian Murphy, who played The Scarecrow, a.k.a. Jonathan Crane. I’d never seen him before (or at least I thought I hadn’t, until Matt pointed out that we’d actually seen him right before the movie started in a preview for “Red Eye”), and while there’s something very strange about his cheekbones, the man is, well, again, striking-looking. And he looks particularly good in the glasses.

Earlier today, I took my first trip to Murray’s Bagels. Matt, as a non-native New Yorker, had never been exposed to real bagels. He’s fond of Lender’s. Lender’s! My poor, sheltered boyfriend. So I went to Murray’s and got half a dozen bagels (two plain, two onion, two everything) plus another one for myself to eat as soon as I got home – a plain bagel with lox, cream cheese, tomato and onion. There’s nothing like a huge, hard-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside, real New York bagel. It was delicious. Matt was overwhelmed by how big the bagels were.

Last night neither of us were able to go to our usual Friday night gathering. Every week some of us get together to watch the Sci-Fi Channel’s Friday night lineup. But I was sick and Matt was wiped out, so we watched it at home. And I think a few other regulars were out of town. I only wish we’d all been together for last night’s “Stargate: Atlantis,” because there were two or three moments where we would have all had a hoot.

I must point out that I know very little about the “Stargate” franchise. I saw the original movie years ago, but I never saw an episode of “Stargate: SG1” (which has now been on for eight years) until last season, because Matt watches it and I caught a few episodes with him. “Stargate: Atlantis” is only a year old and I’ve caught most of it with Matt. I’ve not traditionally been a big TV sci-fi person; I watched “Star Trek: The Next Generation” with my dormmates back in college, and that’s about it, except for other occasional “Star Trek” spinoff episodes while other people were watching. Watching four shows in a row on a Friday night about bands of heroes travelling through space (and exploring rather Vancouver-like planets) is pretty fun, though. I really am a sci-fi geek at heart.

And now to bed, after which today will be yesterday and tomorrow will be today.