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Heavenly Pursuits
Friday, May 04, 2007

Well. Next week is exam week, which makes today reading (no classes so students can study and catch up) day. Not a lot going on, work is slowing down, and I'm checking and double checking to make sure everything is covered, though I am sure I forgot something. My poor student workers are going to houseclean next week, as I get ready for summer.

But summer is almost here. There is a holiday feel to the air, like one is just on the point of partying. Not yet, though. I'd play music, but all day I've had graduating seniors taking tests at the main table a few feet away, and I don't want to disturb them more than being in an office already does.

What my main preoccupation of late has been is updating the film article. Each paragraph is its own movie, and so I go to the paragraph, check the links. Then, like, for example, for Stardust I Google:

Gaiman + stardust

And I read everything to see if I can pick up any news. Sometimes I find something neat, and if I can collaborate it, then I chose a the best link or two. Sometimes I find something that I need to ask Neil. There are so many rumors, you have to be careful.

Then I type in:

Stardust + Cox
Stardust + Phieffer
Stardust +....

I only do this with people who may have been interviewed, or have a good fan base.

Then I re-write the paragraph to include the new information, revoice it a bit if it needs, code the links, highlight what I'd like Neil to take an extra look at, bold the title and start all over again with the next movie.

You'd think I'd be done by now, but not so. I want this to be right...thorough and as close to perfect as you can get when you're writing about something that may completely change in two days.

I actually enjoy it, though. I am still a librarian at heart.

I am now reading Phillipa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl. It's such an easy read. A warm bathwater read...I've been laying in front of my open window and reading it, drinking tea and feeling quite happy and at peace. Then I'll go back to Mister Potter....I finished book one a bit ago, and have been trying to start Book 2.

Labels: harry potter, maundering over happy thoughts of summer, Neil Gaiman, still a librarian at heart, The Other Boleyn Girl, writing

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Gosh, leaving comments here is difficult.

Cindy:

You can string all your google alerts into one thread. I'm running:
stardust (cox | miller | deniro | "de niro" | pfeiffer | vaughn | danes | gervais)
as a comprehensive alert and it seems to mostly be on target.

My links are here:
http://del.icio.us/thedreaming/film+Stardust

If you haven't seen the Time article on movie villains or the AP article on niche films, you might want to take a look at them -- the rest seem to be the same quotes over and over again.

Not that FOEM isn't picking up/reprinting what's out there as well.

Be well and good luck on the updates!

-randi

By Randi Mason, at 12:24 AM

Wow...that's very very clever! So that should work as an ordinary search string, as well?

And I'm sorry it's hard to leave a comment...I know it's hard to read them, and I'm trying to fix that. Is it just not showing up so you can see it easily? I'll fix that, too.

Thank you so much! Have a lovely weekend.

Cindy

By Cindy, at 10:23 AM

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Food and flowers, mostly.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Food has been my bane these past few days. Ever since I bought my gala dress, I've had a million reasons to eat. There was an international dinner, where of course I had to try everything, so I had spicy tofu, (very spicy, and surprisingly soft...it was made by one of my student workers, and she did a marvelous job) lotus root and calamari soup, (Blander, the lotus root was rather neat, especially in texture) jerk chicken, vegatable paella, a lamb curry (I never thought to eat lamb...there's soemthing rather sad about eating lamb, but i wanted to try a curry, and it really was delicious) a marvelous beef stew, creme brulee (oooh) and a magnificent Brazillian Chocolate. I was crammed full, but you don't get real, authentic world cuisine every day!

Then Monday night, we had one of my favorite events: The Honors Dinner. I didn't go last year because no one really knew me, so i thought it might be better to not intrude, also had so, so much to do at home. :( It's the time when we gather together to induct the people into the honors societies and to pass out awards and scholarships. it wouldn't have been so bad (salmon is very good for you, right?) but I pigged out on pizza earlier, because it had such a marvelous, thick crust.

Also, Sunday and last night, mum decided to cook. She's a wonderful cook, but as you know lately there's not been any real sense in cooking things because my father can't eat them, so I wasn't able to make up for my sins by just eating a can of won ton soup. So, today, I decided to fast a little. I just had a couple of cups of tea, and I'll eat when I get home. Alright, alright, I had chocolate, but it's secretaries day, darn it. (My boss was going to take me to lunch, but timing was bad for the GA, who was also invited, poor lady. But isn't that sweet of him? And she was genuinely sad, it seemed, that i was waiting, but it's not fair to her if she can't go.)

...

Well, that was started many days ago. There are many things I think of to say, but I'm going to put them aside so this post doesn't become a novel.

One thing, one that I want to share with you and remember, is this lovely vase of flowers. My GA's, the spectacular and lovely trio that make my life so much better bought these for me for Secretary's day. Aren't they loveliness incarnate?

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I got all teary eyed. These are the moments when you feel truly blessed.

In my life, Baby seems to be a new key word. Two of my closest friends and my boss's wife are all having them...one in June, one in July and one in September. It's amazing -- I'm really happy for my friends. I wish I could talk to them more often, and wonder at what point the three letters and a Christmas card theory becomes an excuse rather than a fact.

Last night my internet got cranky, so I tossed it in and watched the 2003 BBC version of The Other Boleyn Girl I am a bit obsessed with it at this moment. It was interestingly filmed, and i always like the immediacy of when they breack down the fourth wall on occassion to comment directly to the audience. Most of all, the romance, though very, very breifly done, between mary and William Stafford has caught my imagination. In this version, he's played by Philip Glenister, who isn't a particularly stereotypically handsome man on the surface. (You may have seen him as Hobbs in Hornblower.) But he's extremly interesting, and as I realized he was falling for Mary I was really rooting for him. They've choosen a very, very pretty man for the 2007 version of the movie that will be coming out. So very pretty and young, but I'm not happy about it, simply because part of the charm is that William isn't extremly handsome, he's not rich, but she falls in love with him anyway. It makes it feel like a real, true, wonderful love match. Eddie Redmayne, on the other hand, is someone I imagine women fall in love with at cafes, without so much as a word. So it sort of...it's not as romantic for me.

And now I can go home!

Labels: flowers, food, GA's are love, presents, The Other Boleyn Girl

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