We had such a good time on our outing to the Wisconsin Film Fest last year that My Darling B and I took time off from work this year so we could see even more films … if we could get the tickets, which tend to sell out rather quickly, some of them within hours after going on sale.

This year, B was determined not to miss out on any of the films she really wanted to see. We picked up a couple copies of the Isthmus, read through all the movie reviews and picked the ones that sounded most interesting. Then this morning we went over our choices with each other, arm wrestled over the ones that conflicted with one another, and made out a schedule of the films we could see.

After that it was just a matter of getting the tickets. Luckily we could order on line. If you go by the comments on the Twitter feed on the film fest’s web site, a lot of people seem to think this is a really crappy deal. I guess they’d rather drive downtown and stand in line for hours before finding out at the box office that the show they wanted to see is sold out. Yes, ordering through the web site was a little frustrating, probably because thousands of people were trying to buy their tickets the same time we were. At one point B was sure her order had timed out and we would have to start all over, but as it turned out all was not lost and in just thirty or forty minutes we had tickets to all fourteen of the films we wanted to see. How’s that bad?