Another NYC Weekend
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annaoj, yarn goddess!
I've skimmed back 175 friendspage entries now, and I just can't devote more time to it. That's what I get for being away from my computer from Thursday night until now. But it felt really good while I was doing it. My yahoomail account that I use for Columbia House and similar junk type mail had 393 messages in its Bulk Mail folder. Wow.
New York was fabulous, as usual. It was nice to just be able to be around my Kim for a weekend -- I wish we could see each other more often :( but in any case, we yarn-shopped, saw shows, walked enough to not gain weight from daily french fry-peditions, and had a lovely visit. The weather stayed in the 60s and 70s, which was a welcome change from Maryland, and only rained on us a bit. She is good at aiding and abetting my retail therapy habit. Purchases from the weekend include much yarn, magnets for the fridge (including one made out of a postage stamp -- the travelling street fair kept finding and tempting us), kettle corn, yoga pants and a tank sweater on clearance at Eddie Bauer, the new Mary Chapin Carpenter CD, and a blank book that will contain only NYC information. I think I've accrued enough to warrant such a book, and we're there often enough for it to be worthwhile. We didn't eat anywhere too memorable -- Olive Tree Cafe, Pomme Frites, VYNL (I think I like Americanized Thai curry better than authentic Thai curry), Life Cafe -- but the food was satisfying overall, and the fries were good.
I finished The Subtle Knife while in NYC (and 100 pages of The Amber Spyglass - it's so hard to put the books down)! What an amazing series. The characters, the different worlds, the plot, the action -- everything is just believable enough to completely draw me in and make me think I could live there. The books do plenty of description and setting stuff, but not so much that it takes away from the constant movement of the story. I'm warming up to Will's character (it took awhile), and am so glad that the bears are back in this book! I can't imagine having read the books as they came out and having to wait for the third. I'm doing okay with waiting on the Harry Potters -- I wouldn't have done so well with these. I'm glad that the third one is so big -- I will savor it.
My ride to work arrived at 7:55 this morning, which is funny, since I didn't get out of bed until 7:45. Good thing I took a quick shower this morning. On the bright side, we might be leaving early.
I have piles of folders on my desk. I think I was in the middle of organizing something when I left work on Thursday, and I have no idea what it was now.
Things I would like to write entries about in the future (aka writing prompts): my favorite shoes/clothes/adornments over the years; musings about the 48 hour zine project; garden description; meal standbys; sheets.
annaoj, yarn goddess!I've skimmed back 175 friendspage entries now, and I just can't devote more time to it. That's what I get for being away from my computer from Thursday night until now. But it felt really good while I was doing it. My yahoomail account that I use for Columbia House and similar junk type mail had 393 messages in its Bulk Mail folder. Wow.
New York was fabulous, as usual. It was nice to just be able to be around my Kim for a weekend -- I wish we could see each other more often :( but in any case, we yarn-shopped, saw shows, walked enough to not gain weight from daily french fry-peditions, and had a lovely visit. The weather stayed in the 60s and 70s, which was a welcome change from Maryland, and only rained on us a bit. She is good at aiding and abetting my retail therapy habit. Purchases from the weekend include much yarn, magnets for the fridge (including one made out of a postage stamp -- the travelling street fair kept finding and tempting us), kettle corn, yoga pants and a tank sweater on clearance at Eddie Bauer, the new Mary Chapin Carpenter CD, and a blank book that will contain only NYC information. I think I've accrued enough to warrant such a book, and we're there often enough for it to be worthwhile. We didn't eat anywhere too memorable -- Olive Tree Cafe, Pomme Frites, VYNL (I think I like Americanized Thai curry better than authentic Thai curry), Life Cafe -- but the food was satisfying overall, and the fries were good.
I finished The Subtle Knife while in NYC (and 100 pages of The Amber Spyglass - it's so hard to put the books down)! What an amazing series. The characters, the different worlds, the plot, the action -- everything is just believable enough to completely draw me in and make me think I could live there. The books do plenty of description and setting stuff, but not so much that it takes away from the constant movement of the story. I'm warming up to Will's character (it took awhile), and am so glad that the bears are back in this book! I can't imagine having read the books as they came out and having to wait for the third. I'm doing okay with waiting on the Harry Potters -- I wouldn't have done so well with these. I'm glad that the third one is so big -- I will savor it.
My ride to work arrived at 7:55 this morning, which is funny, since I didn't get out of bed until 7:45. Good thing I took a quick shower this morning. On the bright side, we might be leaving early.
I have piles of folders on my desk. I think I was in the middle of organizing something when I left work on Thursday, and I have no idea what it was now.
Things I would like to write entries about in the future (aka writing prompts): my favorite shoes/clothes/adornments over the years; musings about the 48 hour zine project; garden description; meal standbys; sheets.
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wishing for a daemon of my own...
Date: 2004-06-01 07:25 pm (UTC)I look forward to hearing what you think of the whole story when you're finished!
Re: wishing for a daemon of my own...
Date: 2004-06-02 07:32 am (UTC)'Pie's' Weitz may take on 'Dark Materials'
Tuesday, May 25, 2004 Posted: 10:18 AM EDT (1418 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Filmmaker Chris Weitz is in early talks to direct "His Dark Materials," the first installment of Philip Pullman's celebrated kids fantasy book trilogy.
The project is set up at New Line Cinema, which is eyeing the series as a follow-up to its blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" franchise.
The trilogy -- "The Golden Compass," "The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass" -- revolves around two children who live in parallel worlds surrounded by a cast of shape-shifting creatures. Described as darker in tone than the "Harry Potter" books, the series tackles themes of childhood, innocence and sin, and combines magic, science and theology.
The final book became the first children's title to win Britain's prestigious Whitbread prize.
Weitz will also write the screenplay. An earlier draft was written by Tom Stoppard.
It was unclear whether Weitz would direct the other two installments or whether he would produce with his brother, Paul Weitz, through the duo's Depth of Field The Weitz brothers directed "American Pie," "Down to Earth" and "About a Boy," receiving an Oscar nomination for their adaptation of the latter, along with novelist Peter Hedges.
Chris is producing the romantic comedy "Synergy," starring Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace, which Paul is directing at Universal.
And this, too: http://hisdarkmaterials.org/.
What would your daemon be, if you had one?
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Date: 2004-06-02 12:56 pm (UTC)I managed to not go to any yarn stores in NYC. This was helped by not looking them up to see where they were. I'm producing enough yarn as it is...(right now, cobweb weight merino/cashmere)
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Date: 2004-06-02 01:01 pm (UTC)