Nervous Wreck

Even though I have less to read for next week (one class is canceled due to Veteran’s Day), I’m still feeling anxious about getting work done.  Probably because I assigned myself extra work to “get ahead” which I of course couldn’t get to, so now I’m getting nervous about the extra work that doesn’t really need to be done this week (but very soon, and it would feel great to be ahead, but now I just feel nervous because I am behind).  I’m stupid.

So anyway, Thursday after class I went to see bell hooks.  She wrote Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics.  She’s pretty famous and she was inspiring and funny.  The auditorium was standing room only.

Friday, I was at work all day, but at lunch we got to go see a canon fire on the statehouse lawn for Veteran’s Day.  Who doesn’t like to see a good canon every now and then?

And then last night, we finally got to see Where the Wild Things Are (Spoiler alert).  Overall, I thought the movie really sucked you into the world of the wild things, but it was a bizarre, sad world and I was hoping for something a little more joyful out of a children’s book turned movie.  I mean, did Carol really have to rip off Douglas’ arm?  And did KW really have to talk like an angsty teenager?  So weird.  Vicki wrote a really great review about how the movie sucked the joy out of the book.  I agree.  However, I did leave the theater in sort of a trance and I like that because it means that I was really in the world of the movie and, like Coraline, I really wanted to write a story when I left.  Did I?  No, but I was in the mood.  I also loved Max (he was a good little actor) and the music (Dan liked it too, so that probably means it’s actually decent).  I think it’s worth seeing, but not if you want to be uplifted and not with kids (some of it’s downright scary… see arm comment above).