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Vacation... and windows!
May. 25th, 2008 01:43 pmTaking vacation this week. Haven't had more than the occasional sick day off since Christmas, so this is well overdue.
Yesterday I was the queen of sloth, sleeping late, reading, surfing the net, buying lunch at the deli, then hanging out with Patrick. We saw Indiana Jones and the....really long title. Afterward P commented that there was so much Indy porn in the movie (between the music, the whip, the hat, the improbable chases, etc.), and I pompously pointed out that Friday night Neil Gaiman discussed that very concept at the lecture I saw, and how he'd come up with a definition of genre that basically requires certain set pieces in order to make the fans of that genre happy -- there's a difference between reading a book set in the west and reading a western. A western has cowboys chasing cattle rustlers, or roping cows, or riding the range, whatever. Whereas a novel set in the west might have some cowboys, too.
Anyway, however pompous you want to get, it was an Indy movie! And he didn't look too old! And it was really fun when Karen Allen showed up (but I must admit it was a little less fun before she showed up, Russians with bad accents notwithstanding).
Today, in honor of vacation, I peeled the plastic off some of the windows in the house and opened the windows! For you people who live in Texas and California and the south, you're all "you waited til now?" and I know you've had 80 degree days (and higher), but in my defense this was the first year in a long time that we have actually had a spring around here and it's been cold enough at night that it keeps the house cool during the day. Also, living with Mom as I do, I am subject to her old-lady metabolism, so while I probably would have opened my windows around April 1, here we are.
But today is a gorgeous day, and now that the windows are opened the cat is all riled up wanting to go out. I need a plan for the rest of my day...
Yesterday I was the queen of sloth, sleeping late, reading, surfing the net, buying lunch at the deli, then hanging out with Patrick. We saw Indiana Jones and the....really long title. Afterward P commented that there was so much Indy porn in the movie (between the music, the whip, the hat, the improbable chases, etc.), and I pompously pointed out that Friday night Neil Gaiman discussed that very concept at the lecture I saw, and how he'd come up with a definition of genre that basically requires certain set pieces in order to make the fans of that genre happy -- there's a difference between reading a book set in the west and reading a western. A western has cowboys chasing cattle rustlers, or roping cows, or riding the range, whatever. Whereas a novel set in the west might have some cowboys, too.
Anyway, however pompous you want to get, it was an Indy movie! And he didn't look too old! And it was really fun when Karen Allen showed up (but I must admit it was a little less fun before she showed up, Russians with bad accents notwithstanding).
Today, in honor of vacation, I peeled the plastic off some of the windows in the house and opened the windows! For you people who live in Texas and California and the south, you're all "you waited til now?" and I know you've had 80 degree days (and higher), but in my defense this was the first year in a long time that we have actually had a spring around here and it's been cold enough at night that it keeps the house cool during the day. Also, living with Mom as I do, I am subject to her old-lady metabolism, so while I probably would have opened my windows around April 1, here we are.
But today is a gorgeous day, and now that the windows are opened the cat is all riled up wanting to go out. I need a plan for the rest of my day...
