Today while cleaning the 1st Belz showers I found Old Spice Sport body wash. Can I just say .... nice. I brought it back up to the Squircle (aka the RD's office... you know, it's half a square, half a circle... a squircle!) and passed it around. All breaks from then on involved at least five of us girls passing it around and sniffing it. Rod was baffled as to what all this "man smell sniffing" indicated. Joy didn't like the way it smelled as much and started sniffing some strawberry cream room spray stuff. Rod was quick to point out that she should not want a man who smelled like strawberry cream. Lots of laughing.
I didn't go to Infradig because it was a "girls" night (Linnea, Earl and me) and we were all pooped and moneyless. It was good I didn't go though because some of my oldest friends drove through for a visit on Sunday and that wiped me out, so it was good I rested on Saturday. I want a nap.
Last night we watched Quills. It sparked some interesting dialogue about being aware of ones own depravity so it doesn't control you, and not giving into ones own depravity so it doesn't control you. There were themes of Christ's suffering that were all to briefly touched on, it would have been cool if they would have explored that more, instead of giving into the glorification of the suffering of de Sade, who Kaufman sort of made into a martyr- though not really over dramatically, just subtly enough to go under the radar. I like it. The disc was scratched so we missed almost a full ten minutes mid film. I would like to hear the commentary. Kaufman, the director, also did The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which is a favorite book and well liked movie of mine.
Heavenly Creatures was okay. I just didn't get that into it, although I did say afterwords "It's hard to be fifteen" just because I remember how intensly I felt everything then to, not because I related to what they were intense about.
I haven't written much lately, or at least this week. I guess that sort of makes up for the gush of typing I did last week. I have been working on a lot of fiction, but I haven't written any poetry. That makes me sad just because poetry is so cleansing for me. I miss the process. When I write I normally have to hide myself away somewhere because the stream of though and concentration on words is so intense. That's why I have compared it to vomiting induced by muses. It just sort of comes out. I have been digesting a lot though, so I am sure soon my thoughts and feelings will spill.
I have been making up songs lately while I work. I used to do that when I was a kid and sing them to my dog... I wonder how many other dogs had to endure improvised love songs dedicated to them.... Rod does this to when he works. He is working on one for me. So far is just goes: "Low- DEE- ko- woe woe woe woe" like an old dowop sort of thing. Rod is great to work for. We start the morning with prayer requests, which is just so nice. I love the spiritual fill up. I am feeling more connected with the body of Christ because of it. I also finally found a ride to New City, so I will be able to go to my own church this summer! That makes me extremely happy.
Tonight I have to do some laundry, talk on the phone (which I finally have), maybe bake some bread, and hopefully watch some more Gilmore Girls episodes (Linnea brought back the entire first season... I love it. Eb refuses to be in the house though when we watch them, which sort of sucks, but I guess if I ever need to keep him away we have a method to ensure it.) Infradig is playing at Barking Legs!!! Unless I am so tired tomorrow (after work) that I want to die, I am going.
I am beggining to enjoy the campers a bit. They swam in like ants, but generally keep things interesting. I was bemoaning that the boys stay in Founders (my work base AND my home), but Dave Parkhurst pointed out that girls have their own variety of grossness that I am glad I don't have to deal with. Things are good. I need to do laundry. I have made two cakes in the last two days (Linnea and Katzman's birthday's) and bread. Tonight I am making some soup and we are going to have a "chic flick" of the apartment #6 variety invovling Quills and Heavenly Creatures (these are chic flicks to us because they both have Kate Winslet in them... ^_^). Should be fun. Eb will be watching with us, Michael will not. *grins*
This is something I wrote about two weeks back and never posted due to time constrants: "Last night we sat around and ate ice cream, watched a bunch of episodes of Twin Peaks, and just generally "were" and it was great. I watched Amalie a little earlier in the evening and decorated. I was sitting there listening to the movie glueing my more fragile pictures I have gathered from magazines over the years onto thicker paper. I hung up a bunch of my calander pictures, posters and maps and Linnea really liked them, which pleased me to no end. Last night was exactly the way I imagined life in the apartments this summer would be like. That's really gratifying."
By the way, we should be getting a phone tonight... maybe...