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So the place we're staying at for the language camp has a pretty good selection of movies. Am watching The Ninth Gate right now and I just have to get something off my chest.
Johnny Depp's character really, really annoys me. Because he's in the business of rare, old books. And yet in every single scene, he goes and smokes and drinks around and over centuries-old books without batting an eye. It makes me so mad! And he leaves the priceless book on a table in a public library and turns his back on it!
At this point people who know me can probably well imagine how truly angry I am even though I am very carefully not cussing.
Some people just don't deserve to be around books. >:(
More later, probably.

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Well, I guess that's what I get for trying to barrel through the first third of The Stand as quickly as possible and then going to bed early enough to have dreams.
Nine hours of plague dreams. Gah! Why do I have such an imagination? I'm only reading words and I can make vivid pictures from them! (And it's been far too long since I saw the miniseries for that to be contributing in any significant way; I can't remember hardly a thing from it).
Time to pack up so that I can do another hour and a half train ride/2 mile walk with my duffel and laptop bag slung across my shoulders.

Edit: Just saw two things on the news that bug me enough to post.
1: on CNN, they're going to be having an in-depth, two-part biography on Obama, because we don't know him well enough apparently. Besides the (unintentional?) playing to the Repub. line that Obama is an unknown quantity, I will be shocked, just completely shocked, if they have a companion piece on McCain. One that, you know, touches on the important biographical items of his involvement in the Keating Five scandal, and what exactly happened with his first wife.

2: Headline on msnbc.com! "Unforgettable day for American women". About the wins and losses in the Olympics today (I wonder if Japan's win over America for softball gold means that the sport might be reinstated in a few years..? :D). Something about that struck me as odd, and then I realized that if the story were about mens' teams, the headline would probably have simply read "Unforgettable day for America". Or maybe, "American Athletes". What, are we just so separate that no one who's got a dongle between their legs can take pride in our achievements or be sad for our losses on behalf of our country? Maybe it's overreacting, but you know it's been proven that language shapes worldview. And I wonder if there were any people who read the headline and didn't click the link because the women's competition didn't concern or interest them.