Typing on the Couch (again)

So, I am currently in the couch part of my ritual. I woke up around 10AM and then cooked a little breakfast and moved to the couch to eat, check my email and play on Facebook. When of course I realized that I had not blogged in a while. In the past few days I have seen a ton of movies, went up to Davis for a visit and been relatively celebratory. I need to pull out my cover letters yet again and send those puppies out on Monday.

As today is Saturday, let's have a recap. Tuesday was the first of the movies day. Fantastic Mr. Fox and Up in the Air. I hoped to return and take back to back dance classes, but I got all crampy and irritable so I wound up on the couch under a blanket for the rest of the day. I didn't sleep well so there went the yoga class I planned to take Wednesday morning. I did get up and head up to Davis and do some University business - pick up my diploma, a few transcripts and the Grad Studies brochure I'm in. Then I met Jamie at Regency so I could finally transfer my thesis DV onto the computer. Yeah, no go. I could not for the life of me figure out how to do it. I may have to head back once school is in session and go with Jamie or Jennifer to Meyer Hall to get it done there. Since Jamie locked her keys in the office and I wasn't successful in my plan, we left and went into Sacramento to finally eat at Michael Tuohy's Grange. The restaurant was beautiful. Big open space with high, high ceilings. The service was okay, and the food did not wow me. It was great to see Michael and eat in a beautiful environment. Since I have been watching the budget, it's been a while that I've taken myself to a nice place. What a treat!

That evening Jamie and I went to see Avatar in 3D in Davis. Gosh, what a ride. A beautiful film. The story was good, and the special effects were great. The dialogue was ridiculous at times, but the imagination in creating the world of Pandora was stunning. Yea for creativity.

The following morning Jamie and I had breakfast at Cafe Bernardo and then I was back on the road - heading back to the Bay. I met one of the online guys for tea and then home to relax before picking Randy up and heading to Kati's family's house for dinner. Lots of wine and lots of laughs and I probably should not have driven when I did. However all is well and I know better.

Yesterday I did what most Jews do. Go to the movies and then out for Chinese food. I saw Nine and Sherlock Holmes in the afternoon. The movies were packed since there were a number of films that opened yesterday. I was a little disappointed with the movies yesterday. Nine was just a slow mess. The actors did not do the songs any justice. In fact the review that I read basically said that the songs sucked. And that made me very angry. It has nothing to do with the song, but how they were performed. Sad. They also expanded the story and added all of this background that you just didn't need.

Sherlock Holmes was a big adventure. I loved the use of slow motion to give insight and then show the movement in real-time. It was done with a fight sequence and then again talking about how Holmes figured out certain facts based on the items in the room. Super clever. But there was not a huge amount of substance and the women were just no match for the men. They were scarily weak. But again not as characters, but how they were portrayed.

Anyway, today I will be a bit more active. Chauncey's jazz class at 12:30PM and then a little training with Samar at Hip Line. I hope to be teaching within 3 weeks. Fingers crossed.

Gratitudes:
1. loving kitties
2. successful dates - more on this later
3. hulu - in particular the ability to catch up on Glee
4. dessert
5. time