It’s true: I now need glasses. In a year I went from 20/20 with a slight astigmatism in one eye to having it in both eyes and actually having a trouble with some distance vision (like when I try to read print on the TV from across the room and pull the over-40 move of having to get up to see). Still, I’m not totally downcast since I really like glasses. I went in hoping to find a pair of Cary Grant-esque specs, but they didn’t look so fab on, so I traded in for a twist off of the style. That’s right: I’ll be wearing glasses that are commonly referred to as “geek glasses.” Cary Grant, I tell you! Cary Grant rocked those glasses. (I did try to find a picture, but all that comes up are his horrid round ones—not the look I’m going for.)
On my little trip in to torture my eyes with bursts of air and bright lights, I also dropped by my not-so-friendly Borders to pick up “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver. As I was once again behind the wheel, I’ve only had a quick peek at it (while my mother was in Staples, not while driving. Stop looking like that. I was stopped, okay? In park. Lights off. The whole shebang.). The first sentence alone is pretty thrilling: “Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.” Is it sad that I’m hooked in one sentence? Um…I’m going to take it for a good thing, since I have a deadline to finish this one by.
By “That Polish Guy,” of course I’m referring to Joseph Conrad. There are many things I’d rather be doing than sitting around analyzing Heart of Darkness, so instead, I’ll talk about…a movie! Surprise, I know. I was watching “The Proposal” last night, and it was freaking me out from time to time. It isn’t that I don’t like the movie; it’s actually quite entertaining (except for when The Office’s “Oscar” was doing exotic dancing—that was just disturbing). The creepy part (other than the Oscar thing) is that my brother happens to look a lot like Ryan Reynolds. No, really—he does. They even share some mannerisms. This is potentially awkward when I’m watching movies where Reynolds plays the endearing character who every girl is supposed to be slightly in love with by the end of the film. Well, that and the fact that if he’s Ryan Reynolds, our boss is Sandra Bullock. Not cool. And with that mental image in mind (ew), I’ll get on to my last subject for the day.
Journey. I’ve been having an obsession with their “Faithfully” today. I looped it on iTunes so that it played over and over again for hours today. I’m serious. I really did listen to it all day. This is probably sad, but hey, now I know the lyrics by heart. Maybe I should get out more…
Serendipity of the day: cats and polar fleece. (Fuzzy heater + heat trapper-inner = serendipity.)
2 comments:
Yay, I'm looking forward to reading "Poisonwood Bible." It looks interesting, though long for a book club book :)
Oh, and I love "The Proposal," though the Oscar thing disturbed me as well....and I think if Ryan Reynolds reminded me of my brother, that would be kinda freaky too. Haha, I can only imagine.
It's fantastic, thus far. (I love Adah. I know I'm just going to gush about her in group.) :)
Yeah, it makes it worse that I can't think of him as anyone but Oscar...and basically I just always relate to his character as an endearing friend. haha NOT the intention of films.
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