My weekend was lovely but too too short. I feel like I'm sick at the weekends and all I should be doing is tiptoeing around drinking lots of tea and lying on the couch with a blanket and crying. (Like I do when I'm sick).
Of course, I don't do any of that, I do christmas shopping and visiting and partying and watch movies. All of which is lovely and great fun but means that Monday comes back around and I realise that I'm not so very rested and am in fact still full of the rage I've felt at work for a while now. It's just a sort of internal grumpiness which means I need a holiday. Well, less than 2 months to go and 2 weeks in there are nice short ones 'cause of Christmas.
Narnia as I have said, was very enjoyable. Yesterday Rachel and I went to see Pride and Prejudice which was very very good, funnier and more realistic than the BBC series. I was also thinking about how there's this huge feeling of people not wanting to see the new movie because the BBC have already done it perfectly and there's no point in ever remaking it again. I think that's total crap (to put it bluntly) I mean sure, the BBC did it really well, but with such a classic and well loved story as Pride and Prejudice there's always going to be room for interpretations and artistic variations.
What I don't understand or like is remakes when they change nothing from the original (like the more recent version of Psycho). This new version of P&P focusses more on the characters as real people with real emotions. There's a big emphasis on the conditions the Bennets live in (chickens in the yard, no garden kind of thing) which really puts the whole 'no dowry' thing into a new light.
Anyhoo, hopefully I haven't stirred up a storm there...I was mostly watching the movie and laughing to myself at how exactly right on my P&P roleplaying game got it! I should run that again. Maybe some afternoon in the Christmas break with some girls, maybe even ones who haven't roleplayed before? (Or ones who have roleplayed just once, or not for a while?) Register interest by commenting.
Last night Lee and I watched Return of the King because I had a hankering for a certain elf vs. elephant battle. Turns out I've never watched the whole extended edition before! There was all this new stuff! Ahem. It was good anyway and I kept expecting Two Towers things to happen so I clearly did need to watch it again.
Today I'm working the late night so I spent some time in town this morning picking up wrapping paper and talking to make-up people at Kirks. As suspected the guy we talked to from Clinique had been smoking crack, so I'm waiting to hear back from Bobbi Brown.
Point of Fashion: greasy neck again
Current Obsession: sore neck