Friday, February 11, 2011
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bearshortyEgyptian president Mubarak resigned today. This has been very interesting to watch. It took them three weeks to bring down a government by popular protests. I emailed my students in the writing class to tell them to read the news on this since we will be talking about Egypt later on in the semester.
I had a rare and very good evening out. It was nice to leave the house on Friday night and actually do something. I had dinner with Yeva; we went to our favorite sushi place in Brooklyn. She actually made up with her boyfriend the night before so while she still needed to talk and there is still ambivalence there wasn’t too much obsessing over her relationship. It was actually my turn to talk of my relationship and all the pressures on it. I’m not the kind of person who often shares too much with everyone of my internal emotional state but I also never hide anything if asked directly. I talk too much sometimes but only with people I’m comfortable with. So it was good to talk with Yeva and even cry (I cry when I get into emotional topics maybe that it why I don’t often like to get too emotional). My life is in such flux right now and this year feels like a decisive year on many levels. After all that conversation I felt like a normal person hanging out with one of my best friends doing normal things that regular people do like go to dinner and movies. So the evening turned out great.
We did have a Movie Finding Adventure. Yeva is doing a masters in nursing and she needed to see “The King’s Speech” for school. Since I really wanted to see this movie as it is the kind of movie that hits all the right buttons for me, I suggested a few weeks ago that we go together. We looked up the movie schedule online and were all set to go to 9:20 show at a local movie theater but when we got there, their projector or something wasn’t working, so no movie. We started looking on the phone internet to find another showing at a different theater and finally after the phone conversation with Yeva’s boyfriend about various movie theaters we drove to Manhattan. The city is so pretty at night, the view was just gorgeous. There was no traffic getting there so it was fast by car but it took some driving around to find it and to find parking. It the process Marianna called and we talked to her by speaker. The end result of the all the movie theater search was we were a bit late to 10:20 show but we really did not miss that much.
“King’s Speech” Colin Firth is amazing. Simply ridiculously amazing in this movie. He was great in last year’s “The Single Man” but here he is brilliant. He so deserves the Oscar. Cinematography is beautiful – all the fog and Englishness and the music worked well too. The only thing I could not buy was Timothy Spall as Churchill since I really can’t see his as anything other than slimy villain. Great movie. Very funny too.
As we were driving back to Brooklyn at 1 am since I was staying at Yeva’s we encountered traffic of all things. But with the beautiful view and loud music in the speakers it was still a really great time.
I had a rare and very good evening out. It was nice to leave the house on Friday night and actually do something. I had dinner with Yeva; we went to our favorite sushi place in Brooklyn. She actually made up with her boyfriend the night before so while she still needed to talk and there is still ambivalence there wasn’t too much obsessing over her relationship. It was actually my turn to talk of my relationship and all the pressures on it. I’m not the kind of person who often shares too much with everyone of my internal emotional state but I also never hide anything if asked directly. I talk too much sometimes but only with people I’m comfortable with. So it was good to talk with Yeva and even cry (I cry when I get into emotional topics maybe that it why I don’t often like to get too emotional). My life is in such flux right now and this year feels like a decisive year on many levels. After all that conversation I felt like a normal person hanging out with one of my best friends doing normal things that regular people do like go to dinner and movies. So the evening turned out great.
We did have a Movie Finding Adventure. Yeva is doing a masters in nursing and she needed to see “The King’s Speech” for school. Since I really wanted to see this movie as it is the kind of movie that hits all the right buttons for me, I suggested a few weeks ago that we go together. We looked up the movie schedule online and were all set to go to 9:20 show at a local movie theater but when we got there, their projector or something wasn’t working, so no movie. We started looking on the phone internet to find another showing at a different theater and finally after the phone conversation with Yeva’s boyfriend about various movie theaters we drove to Manhattan. The city is so pretty at night, the view was just gorgeous. There was no traffic getting there so it was fast by car but it took some driving around to find it and to find parking. It the process Marianna called and we talked to her by speaker. The end result of the all the movie theater search was we were a bit late to 10:20 show but we really did not miss that much.
“King’s Speech” Colin Firth is amazing. Simply ridiculously amazing in this movie. He was great in last year’s “The Single Man” but here he is brilliant. He so deserves the Oscar. Cinematography is beautiful – all the fog and Englishness and the music worked well too. The only thing I could not buy was Timothy Spall as Churchill since I really can’t see his as anything other than slimy villain. Great movie. Very funny too.
As we were driving back to Brooklyn at 1 am since I was staying at Yeva’s we encountered traffic of all things. But with the beautiful view and loud music in the speakers it was still a really great time.