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I open my email today and find 59 comments, straight out of the oven and ready to reply. Of course, you'll only get it by Tuesday. Things are no longer what they seem. I thought LJ was the last chalice, the one that wasn't poisoned, the one we could trust. Looks like Judas stuck his fingers in that one too. At least none of the comments have disappeared as far as I know. I seem to be getting everything, despite the delays.
Yesterday was a horrible day: from the early mornings of clogged kitchen sink, cold weather, free Times delivered to our door when we had just bought The Guardian, butter running out, lack of patience with Kevin, missing the bus when we wanted to go downtown and having to wait with the drunks outside Queen's Park Tube (I need to write a post about those drunks one day.)
We miss the 4 o'clock showing of Spellbound, go shopping for CDs (I can't find Tarwater, the only band I'm looking for these days), buy some clothes at H&M, and eventually end up at the 6 o'clock showing of the movie...
Have you seen it? A documentary about spelling bee contests in America. Hilarious, moving, all those critical adjectives... i found myself almost crying at certain times, recognizing in those kids myself as a kid - people in Brazil used to think I was odd because I wanted to read books in Summer instead of playing soccer. And they called me Bighead. Yeah, I highly recommend this documentary, because it's truer to what America's spirit can be then any political commentator/hollywood movie out there right now is willing to express.
I think so much about America. I think I made a promise once that I would never live there. But, oddly enough, this movie made me feel that I could live there. It was some kind of coming-out-of-the-geek-closet experience, I suppose. The armies of the geeks are huge in America and they just need a leader to organize them and march them into power. I think I could be that Geeklord.
Yesterday was a horrible day: from the early mornings of clogged kitchen sink, cold weather, free Times delivered to our door when we had just bought The Guardian, butter running out, lack of patience with Kevin, missing the bus when we wanted to go downtown and having to wait with the drunks outside Queen's Park Tube (I need to write a post about those drunks one day.)
We miss the 4 o'clock showing of Spellbound, go shopping for CDs (I can't find Tarwater, the only band I'm looking for these days), buy some clothes at H&M, and eventually end up at the 6 o'clock showing of the movie...
Have you seen it? A documentary about spelling bee contests in America. Hilarious, moving, all those critical adjectives... i found myself almost crying at certain times, recognizing in those kids myself as a kid - people in Brazil used to think I was odd because I wanted to read books in Summer instead of playing soccer. And they called me Bighead. Yeah, I highly recommend this documentary, because it's truer to what America's spirit can be then any political commentator/hollywood movie out there right now is willing to express.
I think so much about America. I think I made a promise once that I would never live there. But, oddly enough, this movie made me feel that I could live there. It was some kind of coming-out-of-the-geek-closet experience, I suppose. The armies of the geeks are huge in America and they just need a leader to organize them and march them into power. I think I could be that Geeklord.
