Pride & Prejudice

After the barn yesterday maestrateresa and I went to lunch and then to the new Pride & Prejudice. Here's my review. Bottom line: as a movie it works pretty well; however, whether or not you like it depends on what you are looking for in a Jane Austen-based movie.

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Can't seem to get myself to bed.

Did you ever have a night when you knew you should be in bed but you keep getting distracted? That would be me.

Item 1) A big Get Well shoutout to falzalot, how has joining the gallbladder-fu club. Jeeze, I hope you feel better real soon! I'm knowing too many people with this problem--stop that folks, nobody I like gets to get sick anymore. :-/

Item 2) I get to have my Thanksgiving vacation in SF now, even if it rains. Deb (my trainer) will still be here, and she's agreed to take care of Brandee all four days. So falzalot, no worries! (Falzalot had kindy offered to turn Brandee out over the holiday, but... (see above).

Item 3) Hey LBK, I got your message! Too late to call back; I'll call tomorrow (although I may get back from the barn late--I haven't been leaving there on M & W until 9:00 PM lately. :-P

Item 4) As you all must know by now, I can be obsessive. I finished watching the Firefly episodes, and now I've started to watch the episodes with commentary. I just can't get enough of this thing. I'm afraid I'm really attracted to the Mal character (don't we get immune to this sort of thing when we get out of puberty?) I kinda feel like I'm cheating on my Tolkien/Rohan geekiness. I'm sorry, but I'm thinking ol' Josh Whedon got to put this saga to rest with his movie, so I doubt there will be any more. And, given what happens in the movie, anything in the future wouldn't be the same anyway. *Sigh*.

Item 5) There are time I wish I could be a *fan*. But I haven't been so far, and there seems to be something in my personality that holds me back from attending conventions and the like. Part (but not all) is the idea that if I went to Con-thingee I'd like to show off with a costume, but I don't have time to do the SCA costumes I need to do, so I just don't do anything. And there is an element of me that just can't buy wholeheartedly into groups. I seem to be able to be accepted into a variety of social groups, but in each I'm always sort of the oddball--considered really ecentric in one group, conservative in another.

There is also a "what's the point" element to me with regards to fandom/Cons as well. Is it OK to wallow publically in my favorite pop culture thingies when I don't think there is any more to be learned? Probably linked to my inablity to participate in RPGs.

Sigh. Must hit the rack, and face the Real World tomorrow. :-/