Rolling zombies
My office is co-hosting a conference this week. I've started referring to it as "the rolling disaster." Seriously, it's like a cheesy horror movie - every time you think you're safe, a zombie pops up out of nowhere to eat your brains. Except, instead of zombies, I have teachers with floppy disks and elderly education coordinators.
I'm so looking forward to this weekend - 4 days of work-free bliss. I'm heading up to DC to visit some friends from college, which will be fun and relaxing. NQH and I were tossing around the idea of hosting a cookout for the 4th with his family and watching the fireworks at the park across the street (his mom was in tears, she was so excited by the idea of watching fireworks - it freaked me out, but that's the way she is), but it turns out the city budget is somehow lacking the $20,000 for the fireworks, so there won't be any this year. Not sure where the money went, but whatever. I'll have more fun hanging out with my friends, and there won't be any drama of deciding if we can invite both his parents - since they've now reached the "no communication without much angst" stage of the post-divorce period. It's apparently now worth mentioning if they have a conversation without NQH's mom's feelings getting hurt.
Anyhoo, I watched Howard's End over the weekend. I didn't love it as much as Remains of the Day, but it was definitely a solid "English" film, and the scenery was just gorgeous in some scenes. I need to go onto IMDB and make a list of all the other Merchant/Ivory films. Movies like that make me wish I had the money to buy a lovely old manor house in the English countryside. With wireless internet, of course. :)
I think I'm working my way out of my re-reading rut. I started The Eyre Affair last night, and I'm really enjoying it. The time-traveling element of the story is (so-far) clever and fun, without the deus ex machina overtones that would be in other novels. (Thanks for the rec, Ara.) I'm 5 books behind on my "books I've read" posts, but maybe tomorrow. Nothing new or exciting, so no rush.
Well, it's been 2 hours since the last conference zombie popped up on me, so I might as well risk starting some other, real, work for the day.
I'm so looking forward to this weekend - 4 days of work-free bliss. I'm heading up to DC to visit some friends from college, which will be fun and relaxing. NQH and I were tossing around the idea of hosting a cookout for the 4th with his family and watching the fireworks at the park across the street (his mom was in tears, she was so excited by the idea of watching fireworks - it freaked me out, but that's the way she is), but it turns out the city budget is somehow lacking the $20,000 for the fireworks, so there won't be any this year. Not sure where the money went, but whatever. I'll have more fun hanging out with my friends, and there won't be any drama of deciding if we can invite both his parents - since they've now reached the "no communication without much angst" stage of the post-divorce period. It's apparently now worth mentioning if they have a conversation without NQH's mom's feelings getting hurt.
Anyhoo, I watched Howard's End over the weekend. I didn't love it as much as Remains of the Day, but it was definitely a solid "English" film, and the scenery was just gorgeous in some scenes. I need to go onto IMDB and make a list of all the other Merchant/Ivory films. Movies like that make me wish I had the money to buy a lovely old manor house in the English countryside. With wireless internet, of course. :)
I think I'm working my way out of my re-reading rut. I started The Eyre Affair last night, and I'm really enjoying it. The time-traveling element of the story is (so-far) clever and fun, without the deus ex machina overtones that would be in other novels. (Thanks for the rec, Ara.) I'm 5 books behind on my "books I've read" posts, but maybe tomorrow. Nothing new or exciting, so no rush.
Well, it's been 2 hours since the last conference zombie popped up on me, so I might as well risk starting some other, real, work for the day.