22 August
Only one more day to be 35.
I'm not certain how I feel about that. Actually, 36 is nothing like as traumatic as 35, it'll be a good birthday.
Yesterday was the first real day of my vacation, and what did I do? I went back to work!
Everyone was fairly startled to see me. I said that I missed it so much that I had to come back ,but nobody believed me. I was really picking up Cynthia's computer that they were fixing.
It had occurred to me that I really haven't explained the whole vacation thing, as I am getting confused emails about why I'm a day behind and all.
You see, as of last year, I have three weeks of vacation, and I didn't use four days of it, which means that this year I have four weeks of vacation, and if I attempted to take more than the two weeks of vacation that I normally take at Christmas-time, I know that I would be flogged and beaten and beaten and flogged, so I decided to do the Birthday Week thing this year, rather than Birthday Weekend (tricky when your birthday falls on a Wednesday) and take this week off!
Everyone has been asking me where I am going for my vacation, and when I say "Nowhere, it's the kind of vacation where you just hang around the house and putter," the look of longing in their eyes is palpable. A vacation where you go somewhere and rush around and feel obligated to have Fun can be so exhausting, a hang-around-the-house vacation is just exactly what I have been longing for.
And, since I spent the weekend in Philadelphia, I actually did go somewhere, too!
Yesterday, after getting the computer at work, I popped by the Sony to see The Cell.
Long ago on Rate-a-Trailer™ I suggested that it was going to be a very bad movie indeed. Boy howdy did I ever call that one wrong! On Siskel and Ebert (or, to use its current title, Ebert and Whoever), Ebert said that it was one of the best films of the year, so I decided that I would go and see it.
And it was astounding. I really felt as though I had been on a ride, as though I had been in another world. And somebody certainly was a fan of the late and extremely lamented VR5.
The performances were extremely good, especially Vincent D'Onofrio, who was both terrifying and pitiable as the bad bad man. Jennifer Lopez was just swell (anything to keep her from singing!), and the biggest surprise was Vince Vaughn, whom I absolutely cannot stand (the fact that he was in that abortion of a Psycho remake means that he A. is not that bright, and B. deserves to be punished) but he was terrific! Which certainly shocked the hell out of me.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jake Weber and Dylan Baker were kinda wasted, but it is nice to see such strong actors even in the smaller roles. Plus, being in a big hit, as this will be, will be good for their careers and they can get better roles in good pictures and all will be well and good and fine and great.
What's your favourite way to spend a vacation?
Timmi is surprised that we're not talking about Russell and Meg.
And we're still talking about our favourite kind of cake, what we did this weekend, insomnia, the defining current event of our childhoods, good web-based newsreaders for Kim, our jobs, classic books that we hate, seeing things differently as one grows older, weird injuries, dreams that we thought were true upon awakening, weeping at movies, true love, and swearing.
Today's horoscope:
You enjoy your work today. People are pleasant and you feel satisfaction from what you accomplish.
One year ago today:
"We come to men with our baggage,and for a while they're brilliant, they're baggage-handlers. We say "Where is your baggage?" but they don't have any, they're In Love! Then, after a couple of months, a truck backs up. Their baggage had been delayed."
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