Finally
I’ve been cut off from the world for a few days since my internet’s been out, but today as I was taking a nap the cable fairy came and fixed it. You would think after several days of not being able to check my email, and with our leaving for Canada on Sunday, the ski club people from NYU would have sent something, but sadly the most important emails I received were from Facebook. So, break:
I was beginning to think I’d lost my ability to watch movies in the theater when both Brokeback Mountain and The Producers bored me. I think now that they were both just too long and drawn out for the stories they were telling. Memoirs of a Geisha was, I am happy to say, much better, although there were some deviations from the novel. And of course it’s completely implausible. I read that book and Flowers for Algernon over break. I went to Borders Monday night and spent an hour and a half combing the Fiction/Literature section looking for something pleasant. There are very few really nice, pretty books that don’t make you feel worse after reading them (like Matilda, but that’s for kids, or The Princess Bride). I was shocked to see that there is an overwhelming quantity of “fiction” (terrible-seeming books written for single middle-aged women about, for example, Sex with the Ex) taking up shelves where real literature is supposed to be.
Tuesday we went skiing. Oh, wait, we didn’t go skiing, even though the weather in the Poconos was perfect and snowy and it didn’t rain at all back home. So instead I went to a bunch of stores with my mother, including an anime shop that opened on Baltimore Pike that’s just like a video store.
Christmas was pleasant. I’ve got an MP3 player and a PSP, so now I don’t have to talk to anyone if I don’t want to. Those will be especially nice on the subways going to and from work and New York. I also split the cost for new ski boots with my mother, and we got my skis tuned. This is what I’ve been up to (besides the group parties about which everyone knows) over break. I’m going back to school Saturday to leave on the ski trip Sunday.