Elegy by Isabel Coixet
Went to see Elegy today at Canal Place. The cinematography was lush and the acting superb by Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, and Peter Sarsgaard. Definitely worth your time.
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How do you know?
I was speaking to an overseas friend this morning while T and I sat on the screen porch having our tea and breakfast. He said he was having a hard time at work because management kept layering on nebulous goals and then changing the game plan and stressing everyone out over making their numbers. I said these are tough times. But I don’t think anyone is unscathed. I met a woman the other night at…
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Date night
T asked me out on a date last night and we started by taking a nice bubble bath and then we went to Meaux Bar on Rampart Street. Debbie waited on us, of course, and the food was divine – we started with a beet salad, then steak tartare and then had oxtail stew with ziti – YUM YUM YUM. Matthew’s cooking is fabulous. This was a great end to the chaos of the last…
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Stay the course
I was reminded to smile at my computer because I have been grimacing since yesterday. The email situation is still a bust because of a corrupt database issue that has yet to be resolved. You’d think after losing ALL my work emails that there was nothing left to corrupt, but au contraire. Meanwhile, it’s hard to evaluate anything else like stock market crashes, surges, uncertainty, or any of the cosmic topics that seem to be…
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How not to spend your time
My email database bit the dust yesterday and that took me on a sojourn into the realm of tech assistance from Microsoft – it was a ten hour journey. I arrived without my bags. And this morning, guess what? My email crashed! UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
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Enormous changes at the last minute
We are going through something here – there are such enormous changes going on around the world – it’s exciting, challenging, dynamic times.
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What is the contents of your mind?
We instill in everything we encounter, our own prejudice, our own bias, our own stain, our own limitation, our own knowledge, our own experience. So when you’re wondering why everyone is against you, or why your mind is in contra flow to the rest of the world, or why you never seem to be lucky – the why might be a big huge arrow with a u-turn in it that points directly back to you.…
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Ordinary heroic acts
We had friends over for dinner last night and ate out on the screen porch enjoying the breezy beginnings of fall. We would have normally been indulging in the exotic scent of night blooming jasmine but thanks to Gustav, there was none. One of my friends had performed a heroic act saving folks during Gustav when water had lapped up over the bank by several feet within hours and caught everyone unaware.
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Let the witch hunt games begin….
16 September 2008 Hannah Strange News Reporter, Times Online Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter. The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells. At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his…
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Joke of the Day
Heaven knows we need one! A friend’s mother is dying, another friend’s mother is struggling to get over a hip break, a friend’s daughter is stable but dying. In times like these, we need to have levity to get through the day – a friend sends this: This from Sara Silverman–had to pass it on: “A waiter approaches a table of Jewish woman and asks: Is anything alright?”