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May. 3rd, 2011 10:14 pmI didn't go to work yesterday (car trouble, now painlessly fixed), and because I don't watch TV and didn't check out CNN.com during the day, I didn't know bin Laden was dead until this morning. Well. Wow. After all this time, it's still hard to believe. The operation made me chuckle, even knowing how serious it was. As I told my coworkers, they'll make a movie out of it - and if Steven Seagal was still in his 30s, he'd be doing it.
As for the royal wedding, that was somewhat less exciting, but very nice. No, I didn't watch it.
This seems to be my week for the world to be intruding on me in sneaky ways, making me think and shaking me out of my DisneyMood. First, I watched The Deathly Hallows over the weekend (and Z, you're right - way too much time in the woods). Then a coworker suggested I watch a film called The Experiment - grim, but thought-provoking, and since she and I saw it differently, we had a terrific discussion of the issues it raised. Then, at lunch, one of my faculty members volunteered to bring me a book of Flannery O'Connor's short stories. (If you don't know her, she's brilliant, but depressing. If you want to try her, you might start with this story online - A Good Man Is Hard To Find.) Luckily, for this weekend, my fare will be lighter/brighter, because my roomie brought home Tangled and Voyage of the Dawn Treader. whew. Saved by Disney.
As for the royal wedding, that was somewhat less exciting, but very nice. No, I didn't watch it.
This seems to be my week for the world to be intruding on me in sneaky ways, making me think and shaking me out of my DisneyMood. First, I watched The Deathly Hallows over the weekend (and Z, you're right - way too much time in the woods). Then a coworker suggested I watch a film called The Experiment - grim, but thought-provoking, and since she and I saw it differently, we had a terrific discussion of the issues it raised. Then, at lunch, one of my faculty members volunteered to bring me a book of Flannery O'Connor's short stories. (If you don't know her, she's brilliant, but depressing. If you want to try her, you might start with this story online - A Good Man Is Hard To Find.) Luckily, for this weekend, my fare will be lighter/brighter, because my roomie brought home Tangled and Voyage of the Dawn Treader. whew. Saved by Disney.