Tom & Alissa

Today I feel like a real domestic goddess or something like that; I managed to go buy a week’s worth of groceries (including veggies and meat), make a salad for my lunch, run a mile and a half, shower, and eat breakfast all before I left for work. It helps that the coop is half a block away. :)

We saw the French new wave classic The 400 Blows last night at Film Forum. I enjoyed it, and Tom was just glad to have seen the whole thing, since he’d seen pieces in film school but never the whole thing altogether. Crazy that it was so revolutionary in its time.

Tom got a call last night to work on the Ashton Kutcher/Queen Latifah/Rip Torn film that’s been shooting all over town since August, so that’s where he is today. We were trying to figure out how big the production is. Actually, last week, I was coming back from lunch and ran into a huge production right outside my building, on Astor Place. They had a crane over the 6 train stop outside my Starbucks. That subway stop shows up in a lot of films and TV shows (including the Office Season 3 finale, which had to be mostly shot right outside my building) because the sidewalk is pretty wide around it and they don’t have to shut down any streets to shoot.

I am ideally picking up many and varied French materials from my French-major friend Laura tonight when I’m at their apartment for small group. I also picked up a couple sets of flashcards that came pre-punched and ring-bound when we were at Messiah last weekend to use for French vocabulary. I don’t have any more time to take French classes, but I figure if I start early, I may have a chance at fluency by the time I’m a second-year Ph.D. candidate. (Heh heh heh.)