after a week-and-a-bit of very little sleep and lots of energy expending, i am finally starting to feel vaguely human again. we had our second holiday kids club last week, at st stephen's this time, and it was lots of fun even if there were only around 12 kids a day. still, each one was lovely and it's here that i think quality over quantity counts. and we sang lots. and made snowdomes. it was fun.
the day before the kids club started there was a sleepover at church that i only intended to go to for about an hour...and stayed for rather longer than that. it was a weird night of half-baked brownies, chupa chups and movies i had seen too many times:
zoolander
half each of the bourne identity and monsters, inc
gone in 60 seconds
dead poets society
then during the week i had mims and john staying at my place (and amelia one night too), so there was lots of eating of Bad Food and more movie watching (and i was not responsible for many of these movie choices, mind you (particularly the first two)):
honey
a walk to remember
i think part of legally blonde but i may actually have gone to bed
the first half hour of anastasia
10 things i hate about you
seabiscuit
scary movie 3
and the first 10 minutes of the matrix for amelia's sake, but she fell asleep so i turned it off
then the morning after the kids club i flew down to melbourne with mum and we went to echuca and barham for her work. by the time we got there i was totally spaced out and had to stay in the motel while she schmoozed and of course, what was on tv? bring it on of course! so in the last week i've had my full dose of trashy movies, nicely rounded off.
i feel like i need to go and read proust or something. i think terry pratchett will just have to do... heh.
Yes, watching a whole bunch of movies like that is much like eating a packet of fairy floss...sweet at the time, but leaves you feeling slightly queasy.
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yes, a steady diet of fairy floss for seven days...mmm...fairy floss...
ReplyDeleteand of course the wing isn't fairy floss at all. a good hearty meal, in fact. although i have found when watching old tapes several eps at a time i do end up feeling slightly dizzy and have a strange desire not to actually get into politics but to be in the near vicinity of. well no, actually, just to be walking purposefully down a corridor with super-intelligent people, armed with rapier-sharp wit and sparkling repartee and being thick-skinned enough not to burst into tears when others with sharper wit were mean to me.
that's when i decide it's time to go outside and get some fresh air. it usually helps.
oh - i also forgot to add:
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wonder boys
the commitments(i was so caught up in the bad movies i forgot to list the good ones)
and something weird - gaps in cultural experience between me and people aged 24 and under. none of the twelve people at the sleepover except for me and one other girl had seen dead poets' society, and when we watched it the general consensus was that it was lame.
admittedly, we did watch it at about 5am and it's not really a 5am kind of movie, but...it seemed weird to me that none of them had seen it before.
We're getting old! I remember "Oh Captain my captain" like it was yesterday
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yeah - and i didn't think it was lame either! when it finished someone went 'that was such a chick flick'. i retorted that there was only one chick in it - i mean, does that stand to reason? how is it a chick flick?!
ReplyDeleteno! in that bit of the list i think 10 things was the only one i had a say in. oh, i agreed to seabiscuit because i hadn't seen it and was curious, but was distracted by tobey maguire's strange hair and didn't really get into it.
ReplyDeleteyeah, wouldn't dead poet's have been so much better if there had actually been some dead poets in it? dead poets that could only be killed by throwing dire straits albums at them. but then, as i'm a chick and i think that would be cool, wouldn't it still be a chick flick?