Many thanks to all who responded to my end of semester post. I wish I could say I'm better now, but I'm not.  'Tis the season to look forward to the holidays being OVER.

I drowned my sorrows today in a bucket of popcorn and Blade Runner Final Cut, at the super-wonderful Grand Lake. I was hoping for the big screen main theater but instead was ( Read more... )

Exhaustion has fully set into my bones and being. Over the past two nights I've gotten a total of about 6-hours of sleep, and my waking hours have been non-stop work. Until right now, because I'm finally done for the week. There isn't quite enough time to go home and take a nap before retrieving my children, so I've come to a cafe to be anonymous, ( Read more... )

I watched an incredible little documentary while lying in the sick bed today, and it has brought all all kinda stuff for me about happiness, marriage, fulfillment, motherhood, creativity, sexuality, relationship -- y'know all that usual stuff that's churning around for me these days.  But after watching 51 Birch Street, it felt as if someone had ( Read more... )

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There was much that was good today, as well as some worries that extend beyond the usual. Since I'm engaged in an ongoing effort to stave off the depressive black pits of despair (in favor of my usual and appreciated level of melancholy), I'm bringing you the good stuff first ( Read more... )

Rather a PG-13 post about my X-rated evening. Movie night tonight was pornography, pulled apart, reconstructed, reconstituted, confessional, simulated and straight-ahead sex of all varieties. Or, as the DVD's notes put it: "a shimmering fantasia of celluloid sensuality for the pleasure of our largest sex organ - the brain." I'm still working my way ( Read more... )

I've always loved to go see movies alone, and for many years the Sunday afternoon matinee was my regular haunt. I'm not going to go into why that habit died out in my life (one of those back story things), but rather say that it has been too long gone so I'm now finding ways to create a somewhat equivilent experience in my home. Consequently, last ( Read more... )