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· celebrating: one weekend, two weddings. My cup runneth over.
· gathering a small covey of books to release in Montreal this weekend. Ever since news arrived that a previous Book Crossing release of mine had been captured (and re-released – I swelled with pride when I saw it), my enthusiasm has been renewed.
· reviewing: some of you have noticed that updates on the film page have been pokey off late. Some backstory: I originally went with five word reviews because I was having trouble with relative rating scales and the fwfr people had just come along and it was so easy to filch the idea right out from under them. So I did. I don’t know who I was kidding, I am far too verbose to condense my thoughts into five coherent words and I’ve never been any good at self-editorship. So, to hell with it, I started reviewing films elsewhere, using as many words as I liked and it was all on the QT while I worked out whether or not I could sustain such an endeavour. Almost one month later and I think I can.
· shutterbugging: Saturday morning we were having our breakfast on the deck at 8am (plain yoghurt with wild blueberries thrown in, those of you who know me will be impressed at the giant strides I am taking towards uniting fruit and dairy in my life). Peche came to visit and while Mike held her down, I ran in for my camera. Finally, some pictures.
· reading and scribbling notes for my chapter: I approched my editors with a change in topic and I haven’t had confirmation yet that it’s OK, but I’m forging ahead nonetheless. It’s going well.

Honey, is it just me or is it cold in here?

I liked this film. John Travolta plays a former-ranger current-DEA-agent/interrogator who is called back to his old ranger training base to talk to two lone survivors of a training mission gone awry. There was a decent amount of schmaltz and the non-existent sexual tension between the two lead characters made for very predictable repartee, but by the end of it, I liked it. The story was twisted and had lots of “but-wait” moments but it all came together in the end. Mostly.