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It turns out we had a coupon for a free movie ticket, so last night after my haircut, Liz took me out on a date to see the new Batman flick. It had its problems–Nolan’s action sequences are not well shot and are largely incomprehensible–but overall I quite enjoyed it. Christian Bale ranks […]

Our house has air circulation issues (which are, for better for worse, to be alleviated later this summer, but that’s a whole ‘nother post), so when the weather gets humid and oppresively hot, our second floor gets and stays painfully uncomfortable, and there’s not a whole lot we can do about it. But it’s […]

Right now I am too tired to adequately express my thoughts on Revenge of the Sith, but I will attempt to summarize:
OMFG!

Mood:Awestruck
Music:Star Wars (duh)

One week from today, Star Wars will have been and gone. After all this time, complete.
Wow.
(Pleeeeeeeeeease let it not suck…)

Mood:excited

Popped out at lunch today to pick up the new NIN album, and the Return of the Sith soundtrack. NIN is pretty good. Haven’t listened to Sith yet–considering trying to keep at least a tiny bit of “prequel purity” before The Big Day comes, even though I already read the silly kids’ storybook […]

Took in a number of movies this week…
Wednesday: Kung Fu Hustle. Ebert’s summary captures this perfectly. A charming, kick-ass cartoon of a movie. Fluffy, action-packed, and full of heart, and with possibly the sweetest, most genuine happy ending I’ve seen in quite some time.
Thursday: House of Flying Daggers. A much […]

Crappy day at work, due largely to the inability of others to do simple things like notice that they need to do something, or read the painstakingly simple and clear instructions that I prepared for them, despite the use of several meetings, emails, tickets, face-to-face conversations, and the use of many asterisks and all-caps typing […]

This not being at work thing feels really good.
Last night I made one of my favorite “it’s sort of Indian” dishes, a mess of tomato and chicken and curry and toasted almonds, which I haven’t done in far too long. It was kind of like visiting an old and long-distant friend.
Part one of our […]

I’ve been meaning to vent about this (admittedly utterly trivial event) since Tuesday, so here goes…
We preorder most of our Disney DVD’s through the Disney store, since there is usually a set of lithographs that go with whatever animated film they are about to release. Liz has been doing this for years; her litho […]

aquamindy and I (okay, mostly aquamindy, but I helped) installed a cat hole on our laundry room door this week!

Julia beholds the glory
Valentine enjoys the new opening
Julia through the arch

In thoroughly unrelated news, we have tickets to see One Man Lord of the Rings in Chicago in February!! My bounces of excitement and joy […]