Expectations...

Day 14 - A movie that no one would expect you to love

Really, I have no idea what other people expect me to love or hate. My experience is that people tend to think I'll love the movies they love, because they think they are good. It's often (but not invariably) true. More often I dislike movies people expect me to love: Merchant Ivory movies, Jane Austen, Shrek, Ocean's Eleven.

I have surprised myself by liking movies I expected to hate. Terminator 2 is an example. I expected mindless violence without much characterization or plot, and instead got a damn good movie for my money.

Wednesday...

• I checked the laundry room, and all six clothes washers were available. I went to get my laundry, and by the time I got back downstairs, about ten minutes later, they were all in use. My clothes remain unwashed. Tomorrow!
  
  
• The physiotherapist moved my appointment today from the regular 2:30 pm to 2:00. Paratranspo has always got me there before 2 pm - until today, when they didn't even pick me up till 2:10. Grump. The session was good, though. She had me doing exercises in motion, and using the pulleys. New things. Even raising my hands over my head - doing tadasana with an arm that won't straighten.
  
  
• Watched the first episode of Above Suspicion, because of my liking for the lead actress, Kelly Reilly. I liked the show very much indeed, except for the dwelling on maggoty and maimed corpses. Ugh. But the plot was terrific.
  
  
• Watched the first episode of Rubicon, and I don't know what I think. Obviously it's an intelligent show, and I was convinced that the protagonist was intelligent. But I wanyed to know more of what it was about... It's vagueness was intriguing, but not interesting enough to make me care or draw me in. Will I was episode 2? ...Maybe. Damn, I wish I had more new episodes of Fringe.
  
  
• Watched the new episode of White Collar, 2x04, "By the Book". I'm still not as much of a Mozzie fan as I was in the first season, but that's okay: this was a delightful episode. Loved Peter being alternately annoyed with Neal, and protective of him. I loved Mozzie's horror that Tom wasn't good enough for Gina, and his subsequent heroism.
  
  On the other hand, I prefer the stories in which they are working on a regular FBI case, rather than shenanigans of Mozzie or Neal.
  
  
• Reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Loving it.
  

Marriage laws...

Court Rejects Same-Sex Marriage Ban in California - this sounds like a move in the right direction.

I can't believe the bigotry of Proposition 8.