Decompressing

Well I have finally turned in the thesis after a few months of intense work. I'm surprised to be where I am, leaving the 'ville in a little over a month...It's really happening fast after what's been a really long haul here in Cville.

I've had a nice weekend doing some things that I hadn't been able to do during the work period. In the last 24 hours I have

1. Read around 180 pages in David Mitchell's novel _Cloud Atlas_...an odd combination of sci-fi, Borges, and Joyce that I'd recommend to just about everyone who's willing to, well, pick up a novel.

2. Watched Douglas Sirk's _Written on the Wind_. After toiling for days over melodrama, it was fun to just watch one...especially one involving Rock Hudson.

3. Watching two episodes of Boston Legal while drinking Hoegarden. Shatner shooting a homeless man with a paintball gun was certainly worthwhile.

Tonight, Flapjack and I celebrate six months of goodness...I don't know what we're doing yet, but it should be memorable. It may even involve _Thoroughly Modern Milly_ on DVD.