Short Takes

Saturday:
I ended up working most of the weekend. But i did have a chance to take a long walk stumbling around the forest at a nearby town. I so regretted not ordering my digital camera sooner. So, because i can't show the glory of Carroll Forest or convey how i couldn't walk a straight for the life of me i decided to draw you a picture to capture this moment:

The green dots represent my disasterous attempt at walking. The orange dots describe my wrong turns. (Someone has too much time on their hands.)
One the most beautiful spots in the forest is a small resovoir. One end of which ends in a small waterfall. It seems that at one point there was a a large stone cottage buitlt right nearby. The waterfall falls into the ramnants of the buildings foundation. On a ordinary day it's a beautiful sight, but this time the waterfall was covered in a sheet of ice while the water flowed underneath. Since i was alone and thus easily bored i made up a game of throwing snow balls into two small holes in the sheet of ice! (I'm telling you i'm the height of excitement.) Then a young attractive couple passed by me on their uber-cool looking snow shoes. I think i saw a look of pity in their eyes. So i promptly stopped my childish escapades and continued stumbling for another three hours.

Sunday:
Had a few hours from work. Went to see Sideways The Wedding Guest with my mother. The flattest movie i have ever seen, up there with the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and other bullshit movies that don't know if they are comedies or dramas and end as total shit. Debra Messing does a good job hamming it up except for one little problem: the material and the actors around her are all in alternative movie where there are no punch lines and no one knows where the script is going. Basically she's neurotic but no one knows why, the "all wise" hooker (with a degree from Brown! get it? his smart and accomplished, but chooses to be a prostitute!) falls in love with Debra Messing after sex (um, him being a prostitute and all, seems a tad unlikely that after a good f#^k he would suddenly fall in love). Anyway, i didn't laugh once. I would have prefered instead to watch the most overated movie of the year. It least it would been a good movie.
To end the long day (and night) i ended up dancing like an ADD child without his ritalin to this song (via C). Because after spending a day with a terminally ill woman who has everything going for her: a loving husband, two delicious children, and financial security, i have to remind myself it is good to be alive and every day counts. So i'm planning to live it up. Won't you join me?