Tom & Alissa

Wow, so, it’s going to take a long time to compile the list of movies we’ve watched in the last two months or so, because as usual, it’s a lot.

But here’s an abbreviated list and possibly interesting list.
What I watched while I was laid up with The Hideous Illness:
- Far too much of Gilmore Girls, Season 6
- The Office, Season 2, Disc 3 (including all the commentaries AND the deleted scenes)
- The Good Shepherd (we loved it)
- The Third Man (splendid)
- Days of Being Wild (early Wong Kar Wai)

I am back in the office today and it’s been busy trying to catch up, though it could have been much worse. I missed pretty much everything from Thursday onward, including church, and spent a lot of this lovely weather on the couch, but all I have right now is a very congested-sounding cough, a feeble voice, and a little bit of wooziness in the head. Definitely much improved.

Enough about me. How about this weather? Everyone seems so much happier when the weather turns warm for the first time. People were outside in droves on Saturday (saw them from the window). I love how pretty, feminine skirts and dresses are everywhere. Maybe it’s just me, or maybe it’s NYC, but I seem to remember that ten years ago, if you wore a skirt on the street you’d feel dressed up and out of place; now it seems to be the norm. Have skirts replaced shorts? (They should, they’re much more flattering.) Anyhow, viva la skirts!

Also, the trees are blossoming in Park Slope. They stink (it’s those nasty white trees) but I can’t smell them right now anyhow, so I don’t care. So pretty. I remember that RPI’s campus used to bloom like this right about now. Made the last two weeks of the semester so much fun, but also made it very difficult to sit inside and buckle down. Finals in the fall semester invariably went better.