weekend oh noes
Mar. 11th, 2006 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosawI am never certain why the weekend seems so short. I look forward to the weekend, carefully plan how I will spend my time, what work I will get done, what errands I will run, what books I will read. Laundry, plants, general organization, all that stuff makes it onto my weekend 'to-do' list. And here is it, Saturday night, and I have done one thing on my list. One. I should have written things like 'watch bsg' and 'talk with m&m' and 'walk with rwr,' and, most importantly, 'nap' on my list. Then I could be sitting here feeling accomplished rather than sitting here feeling blah about how tomorrow is Sunday and I won't get anything done tomorrow either and then it's another rotten week before the next weekend. Sigh.
So close to being done with my big class I can already smell the freedom. However, next Friday is my baseline mammogram. Freedom's price-tag, the last dreaded event in the final week of this quarter. And my dread is quite overwhelming. I have canceled this test once before and I promised myself I would just go through with it this time, that it's the right thing to do in terms of preventative medicine. My parents never did a single act of preventative medicine and I am struggling not to replicate their choices, but OMG this is not something I am excited about doing. Oh well, the right thing is so rarely easy or fun.
We saw The Libertine tonight, which should have been much more titillating than it actually was. Of course, Johnny was delightful, Norrington's actor has a part and so do several other actors from various Depp projects. I liked the cinematography and the script, though it took about 30 minutes for the fish in my ear to get with the "restoration speak" of the movie. The film had witty dialog and proved, yet again in case we weren't paying attention in other gritty historicals, that history was dirtier than our own time and filled with horrible diseases. Horrible. Diseases. Plus, dirty. This is the anti-Shakespeare In Love. I didn't see this recent Pride and Prejudice for a variety of reasons not the least of which is Kiera Knightly fatigue, though I understand it's quite grimy but The Libertine embraced history's grime with a passion. I might need to see it again. I certainly need to read some reviews now that I have seen it to see if, because of the screaming baby (screaming! screeching!), I missed something about the film. Mercifully, baby and parent departed quickly. Still, I felt like it should be a Significant Film (tm) that Said Something Profound (tm) and yet, I am too much of a muddle head to recognize its profundity. Perhaps there's a book, I might have a hope of understanding the significance if I can read it and not be distracted by Johnny's lovely eyes and voice.
Then again, maybe the message really is You Get What You Give, which is profound enough on its own but not exactly the level of commentary I was expecting from this film.
I am still mulling over the BSG season finale, which is a great show and a fantastic episode. I am sniffly about the 7 month break, though RM has given us a bunch of things to think about. Some great commentary by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
widget285 here and by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, chaodai here have added to my musing about the ep. I myself am not ready to come to speech about it, though I am weighing all the various responses. It was the best finale in a long long time and I do think that RM is very brave. Oh what a brave new world that holds tv such as this.
Viva BSG (I must make a bsg icon and embrace my EJO love).
So close to being done with my big class I can already smell the freedom. However, next Friday is my baseline mammogram. Freedom's price-tag, the last dreaded event in the final week of this quarter. And my dread is quite overwhelming. I have canceled this test once before and I promised myself I would just go through with it this time, that it's the right thing to do in terms of preventative medicine. My parents never did a single act of preventative medicine and I am struggling not to replicate their choices, but OMG this is not something I am excited about doing. Oh well, the right thing is so rarely easy or fun.
We saw The Libertine tonight, which should have been much more titillating than it actually was. Of course, Johnny was delightful, Norrington's actor has a part and so do several other actors from various Depp projects. I liked the cinematography and the script, though it took about 30 minutes for the fish in my ear to get with the "restoration speak" of the movie. The film had witty dialog and proved, yet again in case we weren't paying attention in other gritty historicals, that history was dirtier than our own time and filled with horrible diseases. Horrible. Diseases. Plus, dirty. This is the anti-Shakespeare In Love. I didn't see this recent Pride and Prejudice for a variety of reasons not the least of which is Kiera Knightly fatigue, though I understand it's quite grimy but The Libertine embraced history's grime with a passion. I might need to see it again. I certainly need to read some reviews now that I have seen it to see if, because of the screaming baby (screaming! screeching!), I missed something about the film. Mercifully, baby and parent departed quickly. Still, I felt like it should be a Significant Film (tm) that Said Something Profound (tm) and yet, I am too much of a muddle head to recognize its profundity. Perhaps there's a book, I might have a hope of understanding the significance if I can read it and not be distracted by Johnny's lovely eyes and voice.
Then again, maybe the message really is You Get What You Give, which is profound enough on its own but not exactly the level of commentary I was expecting from this film.
I am still mulling over the BSG season finale, which is a great show and a fantastic episode. I am sniffly about the 7 month break, though RM has given us a bunch of things to think about. Some great commentary by
widget285 here and by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, chaodai here have added to my musing about the ep. I myself am not ready to come to speech about it, though I am weighing all the various responses. It was the best finale in a long long time and I do think that RM is very brave. Oh what a brave new world that holds tv such as this.Viva BSG (I must make a bsg icon and embrace my EJO love).
