Tom & Alissa

I was wound very tightly by the time I left work on Friday and pretty much took the entire weekend to relax. So while we weren’t terribly productive, we did have a good, fairly relaxing weekend.

Saw
- Little Children. Recommended as a picture of the depravity in every human heart, but only to mature viewers. Superb acting and storytelling.
- The Prestige. I think I enjoyed it more than Tom did, but it’s quite good, and worth seeing. The consensus I’ve heard/seen/read is that you may have to see it twice to really enjoy it.

Read
- Well, I finished Specimen Days. Mixed feelings on this one. I enjoyed it, but it didn’t hang together as well as The Hours and parts seemed to drag, particularly in the third section. Still, it’s a much better read than most of the fiction out there.

Ate
- Tom engineered Friday night’s dinner, which involved chicken wrapped in pancetta and sage, apple risotto, arugula salad with an orangey vinaigrette dressing, and his crowning glory, crepes suzette, wherein he (purposely) lit the pan on fire. All for our friends, the Haferbeckers, who were duly appreciative.
- He also made some very, very good scrambled eggs on Saturday morning with bacon and English muffins.
- We had the good fortune to partake of BAM’s popcorn on Saturday night during the movie, which is quite good. A little too buttery perhaps, but not as yellow and fake as normal movie popcorn.
- And a big hurrah for lunch at Heartland Brewery with Todd & Albert before The Prestige yesterday.

Plans for the upcoming week include a lot of work, mostly. And some more entertaining. We’re making the most of our four hundred square feet.