While being snowed in, I did some cleaning, clothes folding, and wine drinking. Being snowed in for pretty much three days straight is enough to drive a person to drink. I don't know how people can live in Siberia and not be raging alcoholics. Maybe that's how they do it though..they're perpetually drunk. On second thought, Siberia may be looking better and better as graduation nears..
Juuuuust kidding. Maybe.
I was supposed to go to the MS Society yesterday, but with the weather still dicey, it didn't seem like a good idea. So, I had yet another day at home with my pup. I left for a few hours and I think she was as happy I was that I got out of the house. She needs her personal space. I decided while having coffee with a friend that I'm going to read more of the classics this year. In lieu of that, I went to Borders and bought "Persuasion", "Mansfield Park", "Northanger Abbey", and "Wuthering Heights". Three Jane Austens and a Bronte sister should get me started off in the right direction.
I think I'm going to start writing my reviews of the classics I'm reading, and the movies I see. I have very important thoughts, so I think they should be aired. I started Persuasion last night, and so far, I'm enjoying it. I absolutely adore Austen's writing, and "Pride and Prejudice" is one of my all-time favorite books. Its just such a great read. I should be able to finish "Persuasion" by this weekend, hopefully, and then I'll start on "Wuthering Heights". I know that one is going to be harder to read, so I'm going to probably have to have something else I can read at the same time. You know, like the school books and articles I should currently be reading.
In terms of movies, I watched "Sleepers", "In Bruges" (yes, I watched it again, whatever), "17 Again", "The Education of Charlie Banks" and "North & South" this weekend. (Maybe I spent too much time inside. I dunno.) Charlie Banks was awful, 17 Again was surprisingly not as bad as I had feared, Bruges is obviously awesome if I watched within 2 weeks of my previous viewing, Sleepers was intense and well made, and N&S was a fantastic mini-series. (Its based on an English novel from Victorian times and not the John Jakes novel written about the Civil War, hence why I enjoyed it so much) Watching N&S actually got me into my reading Classics mode, though I don't know that I'll be reading that one. BBC and iTV productions of classic novels are usually extremely well done, and cover almost every minute detail that its actually hard to go back to reading the book. It is in no way possible for an cinematic adaptation of Austen to be better than the actual book, but jeez, the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice" is so close to perfection its scary.
I am breaking down and seeing Avatar this week, fully knowing that I'm not going to like it. I absolutely abhor James Cameron, so even if I begrudgingly think there are some good parts to the movie, I will stick to my guns and not like it on principle. (I do want to see the colors though.)
Here are some pictures of Piper and the snow - she sure did love it.
Night snow:
At the school on Sunday with some random dogs we met:
My favorite picture of her, in action:
And finally, Piper's dingo ears!
