Being Dropped in the Right Place

When people ask me what I'm doing on the weekend, I usually respond with You ask that question as if doing something is a good thing. I like to make a commitment to slug life on the weekend but that's not completely accurate since I usually manage to exercise before I slow down and, like everyone else, try to take care of a plethora of tasks in two days.

Hit the rock climbing gym this morning and Tabitha had me chuckling because she asked Patti how many people she had brought along this time. There were six of us and it was like speed dating or musical chairs the way we changed partners...

I finished reading The Hunger Games trilogy. Hazira will relate to this part in Mockingjay:

...More than ninety percent of the district's population is dead. The remaining eight hundred or so are refugees in District 13 -- which, as far as I'm concerned, is the same thing as being homeless forever. (6)

I like the technique used with two of the survivors of the Hungers Games. For the main character and shero who tried to figure out what happened, she was told to start with simple truths and work up to more complicated matters:

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped...(4)

When I finished Mockingjay, I missed it and was eager to get another book in my hands. Patti told me that if I liked The Hunger Games, I would probably like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo even though she said the first chapter slowed her down considerably.

The other slug activity that I like to engage in is watching movies and I've seen three really good foreign flicks recently.


Favorite lines from Buddy:

Elisabeth: I think we should break up.

Kristoffer: Break up?

Elisabeth: Our relationship is going nowhere.

Kristoffer: Does it have to go anywhere?

Also liked Patrik Age 1,5, a Swedish flick.





And another Swedish film, The Swimsuit Issue.




I really enjoyed what I saw of Swimsuit... I fell deeply asleep but the parts that I saw were great and it wasn't like a lot of foreign films that drop you unceremoniously; it drops you in the right place.

I watched this movie yesterday and I'm usually so excited to see Friday roll around but I'm also wiped out by then. Guess I'll watch the middle part that I missed out on and I hope that you're not so tired that you fall asleep repeatedly during your weekend...

Let's Not...

Had I listened to Janine, I would have Catching Fire in my hands right now. Janine said that I should order CF right away so that when I finished with The Hunger Games, I'd have the next installment available.

I didn't listen and I'm waiting. I'm reading another book that's good but... it's a memoir and one of those books that's interesting but has way too much fodder and I don't think that I have the stamina to finish it. In fact, I put the memoir down in order to read THG.

This part of ...Hunger reminded me of Fair Game, a flick that I watched right around the same time that I read THG:

I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I. (236-237)

I love that part in Fair Game when Valerie Plame talked about her CIA training and how they did this one activity until they broke every trainee, except for her. I'm unbreakable, she said.


I did my own version of unbreakable tonight. I went to yoga which I thoroughly enjoyed. I like the instructor too. I've been three times and he's never done the same routine. We used chairs and I felt the intensity heighten when we went into Warrior Three but for every Warrior Three, there's the moment when you lift your arms, stretch, then wrap your arms around your legs. Delightful. And who knew that laying on your back with your legs in a chair could be so refreshing? Let's come back to the present, the instructor said and I thought Let's not...

After yoga, I made a pit stop then hit the pool. After a few laps, I went to Target -- didn't know that they're open until 11 p.m. during the week and certainly didn't know that such a thing as mango Chobani existed; I almost squealed...

Anything made you almost squeal lately?