March 13, 2005
Definitely made up for getting up early yesterday by staying in bed past noon.
Edited Vietnam War lesson plan.
Finally got Netflix out of the house (same DVDs for 3 months = bad use of $$$).
I can’t seem to remember most of the afternoon. I watched most of Mansfield Park, then most of Peyton Place, and all of The Lady from Shanghai and A Kiss Before Dying (the 1956 version). Then I switched to Hercule Poirot.
To be honest, I couldn’t remember most of that. Fortunately TV listings are online so I was able to reconstruct my day.
Oh, and in addition to apparently killing a fan, I began a new book, Life in the Fat Lane. I’m a good number of pages in, so I’ll probably keep going, but rather than hearing about a beauty queen who gains weight, I think I’d rather read a real book from the fat girl’s perspective (in this case, it’s Patty Asher). I just don’t need to hear that beauty queens have a hard time. It’s not that I’m indifferent to the plight of the beauty queen and this girl’s struggles; but it doesn’t feel new to me. I guess the fat girls’ stories are too despressing. No one would want to read about fat girls when there are Princess Diaries and Gossip Girls to read about.
I have been eating a quesadilla while writing this, and the remainder looks like the state of Wisconsin. I do not know what this means other than that I shouldn’t be eating quesadilla (or much else).