i'm totally wiped out. i'm still paying the price for staying up until 4am the night of the prince concert. i feel like i haven't really recovered from that yet.
on saturday i got a slow start, but managed to do a little more tiling in the bathroom. the left wall is now totally done and the right wall has been started. (the right wall will be difficult as it has the shower head and faucet, requiring the tile to be cut with precision around them. i'm generally not good with precision.) i found it difficult working alone... when lisa was helping, she'd take the measurements and i'd cut the tile down to size. alone, this is a lot of jumping back & forth, which elongated the process.
i quit after a few hours and plopped my tired ass on the couch to watch moonlight mile. i don't know whether it was my exhaustion or what, but i cried my friggin' eyes out during this movie. which means i loved it. if a film makes me cry i generally rave about it for weeks on end. (if it doesn't make me cry i just forget about it in a couple of days.)
sunday was another durham symphony concert. our last of the season, in fact. but it was in hillsborough and it sucked up almost my whole day. i got home and immediately collapsed on the bed, and my sweet boyfriend rubbed my tired feet. i love my boyfriend. he was away most of the weekend at a convention, and i was happy when he came back.
together we watched for all mankind, a documentary about the apollo missions to the moon. this was an unusual documentary... there was no narration or strong story line. it consisted of primarly unseen footage that the astronauts took themselves on their missions (home movies filmed on super 8 inside the capsule, for instance) as well as commentary by the astronauts, often totally unrelated to the footage on the screen. it was more of a montage than a narrative story. still, it was fascinating... some of the footage is phenomenal and 'never before seen'. i don't consider myself a really big space-geek (though ray is) but i still really liked this documentary a lot.
so i guess the key to getting the most of out of my netflix membership is to stay so tired that i don't have the energy to do as much work as i need to. that said, i'm going to try to work on the tile a little bit after work each day this week and maybe (hopefully) finish it this weekend.
Posted by xta at April 26, 2004 02:59 PM | TrackBack