trinityvixen | No posts since Friday? Amazing.

It's holiday season, and, as such, things happen at such a pace as I feel like I blink at my peril, lest I miss a few days here and there.

feiran was in town for two seconds, and I spent much of Saturday with her and

chuckro and

jethrien, which was lovely. (We usually seem to only get together in large groups. It's nice to do some time in a quieter setting.) Sunday, a friend had a cookie party and I spent the afternoon after trying to study but mostly failing. (As, I'm sure, I will on the test: I was the first person to hand it in, and not because I was so awesome I got all the answers in two seconds.)

This week has been thus far unimpressive. I am basically on tenterhooks until I can finally have a conversation with my boss about moving our lab meeting so my needing to take a class doesn't mean I have to unemployed. I did find out we're moving our meeting this week to another day. I'm going to rabble-rouse and see if I can't plant the suggestion that we should always do it that way. It would avoid the whole issue about missing meetings. (The fact that this class occurs at a really inconvenient time regardless will have to be addressed later.) But while I am nervous about this conversation, I've mostly not interacted with my boss at all thus far this week. We'll see how long this lasts.

And that's it, really. No, I take it back, I did do one thing recently: I accomplished my new year's resolution! As of last week, I'd seen 52 movies in the theaters this year, and I still have three weeks of year left to go!

I was looking to see where I declared my resolution on my LJ, and I can't find it. I did, however, find this list of movies I thought I would see this year. AND I SAW MOST OF THEM. In fact, the only one I didn't see--and I am still kicking myself for it after having seen how glorious it was on DVD--was Drive Angry. Depending on reviews for Ghost Rider 2: Ghost Riderer, I will go see that next year. There needs to be a balls-to-the-wall insane Nicholas Cage movie released every year. I will be there on opening night, I tells you.

But yes, I saw every single other movie on that list. I'll do a year-end review, let you know what's worth checking out or not. Not all of those movies were great. Or even all that good. It was still a fun experiment. I'm a little exhausted by it, but at the same time? It's nice to break the cycle of making movie outings "a thing." I do THE MAY MOVIE and that's something of a production. (My own fault, really.) It's nice to turn to a few people and say, "Hey, wanna go see a movie?" and just do it. It's a little bit of recaptured youth. Going to the movies, despite the soaring ticket prices, really isn't all that expensive. It's easy and fun and it's a frequent generator of fantastic outings. (Oh God, Priest. OH GOD THE THREE MUSKETEERS.)