Because this is May 19th. May-freaking-19th! Of the year 2008. Wasn’t it just March? Wasn’t it just 2006? Seriously, the year is half over and I have a lot to do. I never even finished my spring cleaning. (Yeah, remember that? I lost enthusiasm and never found it again…) I’m supposed to have read half of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for my mother/daughter/sister email book club by…let’s see…tomorrow. Funny.
It is getting closer and closer to Santa Fe time, and I’m having my usual little freakout about leaving home for eight weeks and adjusting to a new space and new routines and figuring out how to not let it stall my book momentum. Part of me would like to stay here but have people think I’m out of town. That way I would get the benefit of having no responsibilities or expectations from others for eight weeks without the drawbacks of transporting my life across a few states. And if friends called to say, “I know you’re in Santa Fe but I thought I saw you on State Street this morning…” I could say, “No, it wasn’t me, hahaha you’re crazy.” After awhile I’d feel bad about lying. Also, I would miss my honey, as well as the New Mexican afternoon thunderstorms and the rolling Sangre de Cristo mountains (which are very rolling, at least on the Santa Fe end, and not jaggedy like the Wasatch), not to mention the red chile and sopapillas. So, as usual, you make one choice in life and leave a bunch of other stuff behind but if you kept that stuff then you wouldn’t get the other other stuff. Well, you know what I mean.
(Pull yourself together, Sara, it’s only eight weeks!)
We watched Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead the other night. Kind of genius. And, with the first truly hot day of the year, it makes me want to rent Dog Day Afternoon and put Tumbleweed Connection in the CD player. Also, I don’t care what the reviewers are saying, I want to get a big old tub of popcorn and go see Prince Caspian.
I’ve yet to ascertain who the rainbow-spandex people are.
now playing: van halen – little guitars
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re: Prince Caspian
BEWARE! It’s long and I nearly died after drinking my big coke. But it was good and that PC is pretty hot.
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for what it’s worth, lincoln and i went to the 9:45am matinee showing this weekend, and it was great. we biked to the theater, sat in the dark with one other couple, and enjoyed 2+hrs of amazing costumes, action, and definite improvements to the CGI/anamatronic Aslan. and i didn’t even expect to enjoy the film because caspian is my least favorite book of the series; it always seemed really martial to me. the film was also pretty martial, but the director made some interesting choices about how to show/foreshadow certain character’s story arc in the series. and, i know, those choices involved some departures from the book as written by lewis. then again, i think it’s okay to make some interpretive choices in film, and i don’t think lewis’s work is the bible. now that lewis fans are hunting me down via the internet, i’ll stop commenting.
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