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Luckily the horrible week has ended and the weekend has been pretty good. I was social all through the weekend! And not just social, but happily social, instead of those horrible social situations in which you have to go and make awkward small talk and don't get anything out of it except free food. On Friday I went to see Finding Neverland with fannishly, which I liked and she didn't quite really. But I was really happy because it was all about Peter Pan, and I have many fond childhood memories of Peter Pan. And Johnny Depp was, as usual, amazing. As was the kid who played Peter. And there were just some lovely little sequences in there that I liked, especially that final shot of the Kate Winslet character in the garden. I also seem to be a sucker for biopics on authors, which is interesting. I usually am not all that fond of biopics, but I love watching these movies where people speculate as to how certain elements of an author's life has crept into their works (Shakespeare in Love, etc.). On a totally shallow note, I wanted everyone's clothes. Mmmm, Edwardian age.

I think it's rather odd how I have some sort of fondness for most Western time periods except the Regency and the medieval period, which seem to be fairly popular with most people. I think I just never read books set in those periods that I imprinted on early. With the Edwardian period, there was Anne of Green Gables. I got into the 1800s with the Little House books and Gone with the Wind, and I like the 1700s because of The Scarlet Pimpernel. In fact, that book and Sara Crewe's fascination with the French Revolution fueled many fantasies as a kid. And then there's The Three Musketeers and the 1600s. Gah, I should reread that. I loved that book.

On Saturday, sophia_helix and Alex and one of their friends came over after the Dickens Faire and we all had a great deal of fun playing with the boy's racing setup (yes, my boy has a racing chair with a wheel for his games), eating pizza, and chatting. And I'm quite sure my rats had a lot of fun because there were new people holding them and playing with them. Life must be so good if you are a rat. I'm afraid I foisted a great deal of books onto M, but you see, it is quite to my advantage. All I have to do is fill up all the empty spaces on my shelves with new books before the boy comes home, and he will never realize I bought more! Haha! It's perfect. No, the boy is actually very nice about the amount of books I buy -- he's just sort of hesitant about buying new shelves for me, given the utter lack of wall space (and the fact that I already have five shelves).

Today I woke up extremely late but still managed to run some errands. Then I spent the entire afternoon watching The Princess Bride, partly because it felt suitable, partly because I haven't see it for forever, and really, who needs a reason to rewatch Princess Bride? And then headed over to a potluck of a friend from the bookstore, which was really cool and fun, and maybe there will be even more people to hang around! The best thing is that all the people there live about a block away from me. So now I am entertaining high hopes of game nights and movie showings and etc.

This feels good, actually. I think I'm starting to have a social life again. I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic, and I guess it sort of fits. From personal experience, I don't start making real connections until I've been somewhere for about a year and a half. So this is roughly the right time. ( Read more... )