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floatingleafUpdate on the sunburn: I think I'll live. My shoulders still look ugly, and the red patch of skin at the bottom of my neck feels extremely dry, like old parchment... but the pain is gone. Now there's only itching and white flakes of dead skin coming off all over my arms/shoulders/neck etc., even in places that don't seem burned at all. I wonder how long it will take before I look all pasty-white again (me?... tanned???... that ain't happened yet - or if it did, it was too long ago to remember... LOL).
Update on the summer: still hot. Sunny and breezy and generally glorious most of the time, but HOT. A third-floor apartment without central air-conditioning is a very toasty place to be.:/ I can live with that - but cooking is simply out of the question. So I've been making lots of salads. I have some interesting recipes I've never tried before - but if you know of any cool (literally) meal ideas that don't involve using the stove or oven (steaming veggies in the microwave is doable, since it doesn't increase the air temperature in the kitchen in a noticeable way), please share. I'll be in your debt.
Update on the gay: I watched Brokeback Mountain again last night. For the third or fourth time - not sure which. I have such a soft spot in my heart for this movie, it's kind of ridiculous, actually. Anyway... I always cry at the same exact moment: when Ennis brings down the old shirts from Jack's room, and Jack's mother has a paper bag ready to pack them up, and they just look into each other's eyes for a long while. That look destroys me every time. Ennis is such a tragic character - more so than Jack, I think, even though it's Jack who dies a tragic death - and I totally identify with him on some deep, primal level. He totally resonates with my own feeling of "not fitting in"; of being shy and introverted and lost and helpless against fate, against emotions, against other people's warped perceptions of what's acceptable etc. Jack is a very likeable person, right there on the surface, and he has the guts to fight for what he wants; so I can't really identify with him. I can, however, totally identify with falling for someone like him and feeling undeserving/inadequate as a result. With not being able to deal with happiness, as it were. So it all hits really close to home for me. Plus, it's such a raw, beautiful love story. So touchingly imperfect. So un-Hollywood, so understated, so real. And the acting is amazing. Heath Ledger breaks my heart into a thousand little pieces, and this is the role I will always remember him for. That kiss on the staircase, where he just grabs Jake and slams him against the wall... it's on my top-ten list of movie kisses of all time, I think (Jake is also amazing in that one - even if I suspect it might have been somewhat less of a stretch for him to convincingly portray homosexual passion...;). And that scene where he comes into the tent, holding his hat in front of himself in a very obviously concealing/revealing way, and is so eager and so reluctant all at the same time... oh God. Another classic. Or that breakdown moment after Jake says I wish I knew how to quit you...
Gotta stop now. It's somehow gotten really late and I'm falling on my face.:(
Update on the summer: still hot. Sunny and breezy and generally glorious most of the time, but HOT. A third-floor apartment without central air-conditioning is a very toasty place to be.:/ I can live with that - but cooking is simply out of the question. So I've been making lots of salads. I have some interesting recipes I've never tried before - but if you know of any cool (literally) meal ideas that don't involve using the stove or oven (steaming veggies in the microwave is doable, since it doesn't increase the air temperature in the kitchen in a noticeable way), please share. I'll be in your debt.
Update on the gay: I watched Brokeback Mountain again last night. For the third or fourth time - not sure which. I have such a soft spot in my heart for this movie, it's kind of ridiculous, actually. Anyway... I always cry at the same exact moment: when Ennis brings down the old shirts from Jack's room, and Jack's mother has a paper bag ready to pack them up, and they just look into each other's eyes for a long while. That look destroys me every time. Ennis is such a tragic character - more so than Jack, I think, even though it's Jack who dies a tragic death - and I totally identify with him on some deep, primal level. He totally resonates with my own feeling of "not fitting in"; of being shy and introverted and lost and helpless against fate, against emotions, against other people's warped perceptions of what's acceptable etc. Jack is a very likeable person, right there on the surface, and he has the guts to fight for what he wants; so I can't really identify with him. I can, however, totally identify with falling for someone like him and feeling undeserving/inadequate as a result. With not being able to deal with happiness, as it were. So it all hits really close to home for me. Plus, it's such a raw, beautiful love story. So touchingly imperfect. So un-Hollywood, so understated, so real. And the acting is amazing. Heath Ledger breaks my heart into a thousand little pieces, and this is the role I will always remember him for. That kiss on the staircase, where he just grabs Jake and slams him against the wall... it's on my top-ten list of movie kisses of all time, I think (Jake is also amazing in that one - even if I suspect it might have been somewhat less of a stretch for him to convincingly portray homosexual passion...;). And that scene where he comes into the tent, holding his hat in front of himself in a very obviously concealing/revealing way, and is so eager and so reluctant all at the same time... oh God. Another classic. Or that breakdown moment after Jake says I wish I knew how to quit you...
Gotta stop now. It's somehow gotten really late and I'm falling on my face.:(
