I tried to update last night, but kept getting distracted by other things on the internet and didn't see my account for time at the internet club slowly run out. So an entire entry is lost deep in a computer's hard drive, possibly forever inaccesible, more likely already written over in some random process the computer had to perform. Anyway, it wasn't saved. At most it was a collection of little black lines on a computer screen. Now it's nothing. The fact that this isn't absolutely killing me (it's only a small part of a long chain of things that are absolutely killing me) is probably a sign that the entry wasn't very good, by whatever strange standards I judge these things, and that I've gotten used to these internet club mishaps. They're part of the fun. Peace Corps could be much, much worse.
So, to summarize last night's bit. A weekend in Sofia saw me lose a very late game of Trivial Pursuit, have some great meals, see the Jets and Steelers play and see three movies:
Alexander: Long, long, long movie. Not particularly bad in many ways, but never good. And very, very long. Would be great on the Discovery Channel if they brought in a couple of professors to replace Anthony Hopkins' scenes.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Great movie. Creative writing to the point of being utterly original (I know you can't qualify "original," but sometimes it just needs it). Great direction to keep all that great writing understandable. Great acting to make it all believable. BUT, it didn't really teach me anything, something I need to be able to put a movie in the ol' top three or four.
Ocean's 12: It was like hanging out with the 14 main actors for 2 hours. Sometimes they do bits from the last movie, sometimes they're just themselves, but they're all having a good time. I loved it. It was light and I was chuckling the whole time. I can understand why some people wouldn't get a kick out of all that, and it certainly won't win any awards, but it was still a fun flick to watch.
That was the weekend, pretty much, with a meeting thrown in at the start and a walk-in medical check-up that requires me to go back Thursday for a follow-up.
Since then, I've been teaching, of course. Yesterday I did a replay of the old race discussion for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It's never as interesting after you know all the opinions and prejudices the kids will throw out. It turns into a lecture and vocabulary discussion. It also made me tired. I actually napped most of the afternoon yesterday.
Today was just a headache. Not bad classes, really, just one mildly bad class after another with no great one in-between. They build up on a person. But life goes on, and I effectively have Thursday off, so all's well I suppose. More from Sofia on Thursday. Promise.
Posted by Rob at January 18, 2005 03:23 PM