Archive for March 22nd, 2006

22
Mar

I accept.

   Posted by: richard   in Everyday Things

No more will I be spending three hours a day commuting. No more will I spend hundreds of dollars on gas a month. No more will I miss breakfast with my family.

Back in January I turned in an application for a position nearly indentical to my present job, only it’s in Lynchburg. I interviewed earlier this month, yesterday I spoke with the President of the college, and today I was officially offered the position. I accepted.

22
Mar

Movies Movies Movies

   Posted by: richard   in Movies

Lately we’ve watched quite a few films. Here we go…

Pride & Prejudice: Very disappointed. I didn’t like a lot of what they did. And it got worse and worse as it went on, anticlimaxing with the pathetic, laughable ending scene. I literally laughed out loud three or four times in that short scene. And Keira Knightley is no Elizabeth Bennet (and she kept sticking her tongue out when she smiled).

Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: I was expecting it to be funnier than I actually found it to be. But it was good, and very funny. “Beware of the Moon!”

March of the Penguins: Very well done. The girls watched it a few times, and love talking about it. Of course, they loved talking about the penguins that die at the dinner table with Sunday guests… but that’s okay. It’s an amazing story what those penguins do for their babies.

Bringing Up Baby: Yawn. I fell asleep watching it twice, and have now decided that I’m not going to bother finishing it. The first 20 or 30 minutes were funny, but after that it was just monotonous.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Nate DURSLEY Wilson is off his rocker. Of course, I have a theory about Nate Wilson and Harry Potter that has been independently confirmed (by a friend coming up with the same theory on his own). I’ll not go into that here.
With this fourth HP movie, I have settled into the idea that I’m not going to really like any of the HP films. I hardly saw a point to half of what was going on, they hacked the story up so much. And Voldemort looks stupid.

Millions: I liked it. That little boy is cute, and his character is so weird (in a good way) that you can’t help but love this movie.