Essay is on haitus for the rest of the year.
Three sentence movie reviews: Mad Men, Season 5
My plan to watch one episode per day of my Winter Break was foiled by the addictive nature of this show. It’s fascinating to me that I can be so wrapped up in television with a main character I would not like in real life. There were great plot arcs of all my favorite characters, and the clothing was, again, the true eye candy of the show.
ps. Great cover image.
Attempt to capture laundry drying in window.
Great gift.
I work in the office of an elementary school, so gifts find their way to me around Christmas and I’m very appreciative. Most of them tend to be food. That’s usually a quite delicious thing. Today, though, one of the gifts I received was just perfect, in my opinion. It was from a Kindergartner and she made it herself. I love homemade, I love when tokens of appreciation cost less then a few dollars, I love that I can use this, and I love that the gift shows the effort the child put into it. Well done, parents!
On reading the newspapers during an Oregon winter.
Essay: On “just checking in”
I got two phone calls on Tuesday night. This is two more than I usually get during an entire week. The first was from a member of Matt’s family checking to see if we were okay.
“Yes?” I said, confused as to why the question was being asked. He told me there was a shooting in a mall near Portland and he needed to know if we were okay. I let him know that I was home and Matt was at work and thus probably fine.
and not him and why do I need to humor your crazy?
chat.
Soooooooo Not True!
This headline tickled my fancy.
Three sentence movie reviews:Beast of the Southern Wild
It’s been sort of a “children/teenagers giving fabulous dramatic performances” kind of year for the movies* and this movie was of that ilk. I was charmed and enchanted by the world of “the Bathtub” a place which, outside of the movie, I would not want any child to have to live. Quvenzhane Wallis was amazing as Hushpuppy and Dwight Henry and Gina Montana also brought great performances to this pretty darn good film.
*Or at least movies I watched this year.