Such a day. Such a week. Such a year. I'm not the most social person you'll meet: it kind of depends on how the rest of my life is going (all you need to know is that I have someone on standby to drag me out from under my bed if it's ever necessary). I'm more of a burrowing sort of person, a fort sort of person. Dissapear into a safe place with enough books and food to last me into the next year. That's more than you'd think: let me give you an example. I took...I believe it was 12 books altogether (ten originally and two bought along the way) on a family trip to Disneyworld. The trip was a week, with one roughly 3 or 4 hour layover and one two and a half hour trip in (I slept most of the way back, and I think I got distracted on the planes). We went to go on rides, go to the different lands, have a good time. We did, of course; but I read through 9 of those books, touched on two others, and there was only one that I didn't open.
In a week. Not that I've been able to quite match that pace since, or tried, but wheeeeeew. The things that happen when I don't watch TV. Meanwhile I'm drowning in Library books, books I've bought but haven't read, and a handful that I read as the fancy takes me. Over 60 books on my current list, about 10 of them library. Sound the Riot of the Valkeries. Movies are another thing I am trying to indulge in: theater especially, since the screen's so huge. I saw Tangled the other day in 3D and was blown away by some of the floating lanterns. Beautiful. That's what I love about the movies: it was said best in Phantom of the Multiplex (I know, I know, no one ever watches the weird Halloween Specials anymore). An elderly man who actually LIVES at the movie theater lamented that todays world isn't mystical or magical, that it's often depressing or tedious. 'But,' and this is what I will never forget, 'There is still magic in the movies.' Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader is coming out this friday, and I fully intend to make a day of it. I wanted to talk about writing on this post too, but I ran out of pep. Perhaps next time, and I still want to write about Christmas, perhaps as a writer would. Later.
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K
12/7/2010 09:27:34 am
MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Narnia. :D
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Mimi
Not much to me, not yet anyways. I want to be a writer when I grow up (yes, when I grow up). Mostly ideas right now. And books, of course. I'm mad about books. Archives
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