I must begin by qualifying: I am not a loser. But, I have watched 3 movies since last Friday.

It began with Tideland. I have to say, I didn’t hate it. A lot of people did. There’s even a disclaimer by Terry Gilliam at the beginning of the movie warning people they might not enjoy it. I took the warning to heart, and ended up having a pretty good time watching it. There were a few mild to moderately boring minutes, but overall it was just fantastically weird and ultimately, not creepy, but wrong.

Post Tideland came Blood Diamond. I thought it was violent. Necessarily violent, though, in order to tell a story of civil warfare its easy for people living in North American urban centers to ignore. I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was good. In fact, for the first 20 minutes of the movie, I wasn’t entirely sure who the actor was. In high school, my friends used to call him Leonardo DeGreaseMonkey. Just thought I’d share that (disclaimer: in no way does that represent my opinion of Leo DeeCap). While the movie was kind of flat, and only felt kind of sparkly (maybe 0.5 karats) it also made me want to take out my earrings. But I didn’t.

Third and most bestest was Juno. I love Ellen Page, and not just because she’s also a native Haligonian. She’s just good. Period. This movie is about a girl who ends up in the family way, if you will. It’s hilarious, cute, and I think has a great soundtrack to go along with it. What more could you ask for? Of the three movies I’ve watched in 4 days… I’d say it wins for least disappointing. It was recommended by my most fabulous hairstylist on Saturday whilst she turned my highlights “strawberry.” That’s right, you read it here first…. my hair is black and strawberry.

Be well my movie watchers, be well

I don’t pretend to be a photographer, but I don’t pretend to take pictures either. I take them. A lot of them. A lot of them, in a row, of the same thing. And always, there are differences. What I would like to do, is share the best of the hundreds of pictures I take from time to time, and maybe somebody out on the interwebs will see them and not think, “Hey, those are great pictures!!” but will think, “Those are ok, but could be so much better if only they … ” and will share their knowledge with me and then maybe some day I can graduate to the level of pretending to be a photographer… because I have an expensive camera and it would be a shame for it to go to waste.

Namaste

OK. Now things are starting to look viewable and unscrambulated.

I’m finding it hard to get motivated after the Christmas holidays to do… well, anything. I’m just tired! I haven’t broken my one New Year’s resolution yet: not to work any overtime. It’s easy when you’re just starting a new job, 2 days in, not to break a resolution like that… in fact it should be easy, period. I’m starting to learn that not only do I expect too much of other people, I hold people to high expectations because it’s the minimum I’ll accept from myself (confusing sentence no. 1). I’ve also learned that as my quality of work increases, so does the quantity of time I spend at work, thus decreasing the quantity of quality time I have for myself (confusing sentence no. 2).

Next week, I will learn how to input equations and flowcharts into a blog.

I thought I took a rather glamorous picture of myself on New Years Day whilst having dinner with my family despite having the flu. Beautious!