Last night I was lucky enough to check out the Denver "premiere" of the new Jane Eyre film. (This was the first screening in the Colorado area, part of the Denver Film Society's Women + Film Voices Festival for International Women's Day. The Film Society was very cool and accessible; I think Luke and I will be back.)

For me, the Jane Eyre story is ( Read more... )

→ This is what I have at my desk right now. My work desk. As in my desk at work.

→ This is five minutes away from my office.

→ One of my work articles is getting published in print.

→ I have tickets to see this next weekend.

I want for nothing.

I feel like California is saying goodbye to me. First we got those weeks of persistent rain and thunderstorms, then few good days of blazing sun, then a bit of fall bite, and now - the crazy Santa Ana winds are creating baby dust devils on the freeways. (I felt like I was in a videogame this morning, dodging lanes full of debris. SNAP ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Wuthering Heights for the first time and I'm shocked to say that I... liked it. And that is saying A LOT for a book in which both of the central characters totally abhor me. Most of the secondaries do, as well (I could only sympathize with three of them: Edgar Linton, Nelly, and Hareton ( Read more... )

So despite work eating up 35 hours of my week, it has granted me one bliss: nothing to worry about when I get home. In this single, small way, it is superior to the school year.

Because? At last, my Netflix is a steady stream again! At last, my wallet can afford overpriced DVD sets!

The rundown of what I've been watching:

• ( Farscape Season 3, which owns me. )