Well, it didn't actually snow yesterday, thank God, but it was certainly cold and dark and rainy.

I mean, I work in a climate controlled building, I don't sit near any windows, and there are days that I don't go out at all, not even to get lunch, but it's amazing how seeing the sun in the morning when I am going to work makes such a difference. If I don't, like yesterday, I feel all day as though I am half asleep, like it's the middle of the night.

This morning, I left the house and it was really super-cold and blowy, a "where the hell did I put my gloves" kind of cold, but the sun was bright and I could feel something inside me unfolding like a fan. Now I don't need to leave the office for the rest of the day, although since I was at work until 11.30p last night, wrestling with the company's Amex bill I am not likely to not go out until after dark, but all I really need is that taste in the morning, and I can go on with my day.

So last night when I got home at midnight I had to clear some things off of my TiVo or else it was planning on erasing everything in sight, (I really must crack it and add a second harddrive one of these days, but my friend who can do that also has The Schedule of the Damned, so it's tricky), so I sat down to watch The Whole Wide World, a Vince D'Onofrio movie that I recently got on ebay (yes, I am currently doing the "collect every movie you can find, no matter how stupid" thing that I have previously gone through with Tommy Lee Jones, David Morse and Russell Crowe--if I ever meet David Morse, I have no doubt that the first words out of my mouth will be "I own a copy of Magic Kid 2!") so I don't have to move it to tape, I can just erase it, but I thought I'd watch a little of it first.

Well, that was a mistake.

You know how Chelsea Walls is the worst movie that he (or anyone alive) has ever been in? Well, The Whole Wide World is by far the best. Nicole and I were commenting the other day about how he seems to not have the greatest track record of choosing quality projects, often because he chooses them by how interesting the character is rather than how good the script as a whole is, or probably sometimes because there is working and there is not working and if you want to feed your family sometimes you just take the job, like my father did. He wasn't overly proud of being in Snowballin', but neither was he ashamed of it, it's a job, baby.

But this movie, this movie is not only a great role, but a great story and a great movie about two truly wonderful people. I thought I would skim through it and watch bits. I started out that way, but then I got so caught up in it that I just sat there and watched it, weeping and sobbing, until 3 o'clock in the morning.

If you are a hopeless romantic, I highly recommend it, although it is not a romantic comedy, and it is extremely heartbreaking in parts, but my God, what a wonderful movie. And not only is Big V is absolutely astonishing, but he is beautifully matched by Renee Zellweger. Also, it has the greatest screen kiss in the history of cinema. Now, I have said and believed for eighteen years that the kiss between Mickey and Eve in the parking lot in Choose Me is the greatest screen kiss in the history of cinema, but in one moment it was usurped. Now it is second, Bob and Novalyne's first kiss just blows everything else into the dust.

But the real problem is not so much that I was up until 3a, the problem is that I was so emotionally awake afterwards that I just could not get to sleep for God knows how long. On the other hand, I woke up before the alarm and am not at all tired now, so clearly, it fed my soul so I didn't need to sleep.

Lenten entries missed:

An Bei only wrote twice during Lent, but one of them was about how her haircut killed her cat, so once can see why she wouldn't want to write.

Today's horoscope:
Today your caring quotient is high. You can be extremely warm and nurturing, with a great capacity to love and be loved.

One year ago today:
I'll probably fall asleep face-first in my macaroni and cheese this afternoon.

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