Status Report

Let's see, I've been home for a week, and my house is half-cleaned, my internship paper is half-written, I'm half-way through "Thursday Next: A First Among Sequels," I'm half-way through unpacking my stuff from this summer. Since we leave for Durango on Saturday at 6:00am, I think I'd better get my booty in gear.

I also have tickets to see Mel Brooks' new musical "Young Frankenstein" on Friday. I'm looking forward to that.

I finally finished re-reading the His Dark Materials trilogy. It was good. The final book was a bit slow to read, but I enjoyed it overall. It's kind of like the anti-Lewis. I'm surprised something so anti-Christian was a commercial success, not to mention being made into a major Hollywood film. I'm interested to see how the movie turns out. It can't do worse that Stardust, a movie only Steven and I seem to have been less than fully satisfied with. I'll admit that I loved Robert DeNiro and Ricky Gervais, but there were definite lulls, and the movie could have used another $50 million to make it a bit more magical.

I enjoyed "Rocket Science" despite the uncomfortable frequency of teenagers making out. It reminded me of "Thumbsucker" and brought back far too many unpleasant high school memories, but it was still enjoyable.

"Ratatouille" was pretty good. The level of quality in the animation is astounding. I don't know how Pixar does it, but everything they make looks completely beautiful. The rats moved just like real rats. It was amazing. The movie has also convinced me of a new vocation to strive for: "Global Technology Supervisor." I have no idea what the "Global Technology Supervisor" does, but it sounds like something I would enjoy. There's the whole global thing, which appeals to my ego and sense of self-importance; of course I love technology; and supervisors generally get to boss people around, which I am in favor of... but I digress...

I'm supposed to go see "The Nanny Diaries" this afternoon with the coolest middle-schooler this side of the rockies. All-in-all, it's been pretty much my ideal weekend.

Next year, I'm definitely going to try to go to the Penny Arcade Expo though. There were so many nerds in Seattle yesterday that even I felt cool. It was the first time I've ever seen a line to get inside of Gameworks.

Anyway, that's all I've got here from my couch on this ominous-clouds, super-dark-gray-sky-sun-still-shining-on-the-trees Sunday morning.