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Jan 7, 2001 - 10  p.m. 

Wholly Lethargy Batman. You wouldn't believe what i have done this weekend. Nap. that is what i have done this weekend.  Or at least that's the way it seems. I mean there really seems to be nothing else going on here. Let's think about today.  I went to bed last night at 3 a.m. or rather i knowingly fell asleep on the couch at 3.  At 9 i woke up.  Read some email, looked around, tried to figure out what was going on, discovered that my parents were coming to town and then went back to sleep for a nap.  On the couch again.  At 11:30 my cell phone rang and i went and answered it.  Then i came back to my couch and, watching TV, managed to fall back asleep.  But, and this seems important to me for some reason, i changed ends of the couch.  
    Not too long after this my mother and sister showed up.  failing in their attempts to get me out of the house to go and watch my sister go and get yet another tattoo, i stayed home, in order to get some work done.  And in my own defence i did stay up long enough to determine that my other computer, the desktop one has a screwed up power supply and watch my movie.  After this, instead of taking the movie back, due at 6, i figured it was only 4 and that i likely had some time in which i could get some more sleep.  So i had a nap.  I woke up at 25 after 5 thinking about the need to take my movie back.  And then i realized i still had 35 minutes, so i put my brain on snooze and went back to sleep for 5 more minutes.  This i did 3 times in total before i dragged my ass off the couch, added pants to my butt and went to take it back.  As i walked down the street i thought only about how much i would like to be back on my couch sleeping.  
   However, since i got home i haven't really done anything that would be considered as sleeping, so yay me.  

   So the other day i went to and watched Finding Forrester, the new movie with Sean Connery.  In fact i even reviewed it if you want to go and look. The thing is, this movie...held me so much in its sway that i just sat there enthralled from beginning to end. i had no choice but to be amazed.  I have given this some thought and am having some ideas about it. For instance it is buy-in, in movies that makes you love them more.  I was with three other people at this thing.  Two of the others loved it and the third found it boring.  I related on the level of writing for this movie is about writing at its heart.  it is about what writing means to the writer and what it does to his life.  I loved it for that.  My friend, who teaches english and coaches basketball had three separate ways in which to relate.  the other friend who liked it, i am not so sure how she related exactly but it is these things that really capture your interest.  My other friend, the one who didn't like it had the largest issues with the fact that we were being told he was a good author  but never got to hear any of it. she wanted proof
   at this point you are saying, just what the hell is the point?  how the hell should i know, i might say. i don't know, what i am saying is that since this movie i haven't spent a day where i didn't' reflect on something from it in some way or another.  and this is because i saw the things that it was trying to say as real and relative to my life and the life i want to live.  i related on a very personal level to so much that was going on.  (except the basketball thank you very much, i hate basketball).  I mean so many of the things i believe about my own writing were in there, so many thoughts i have had.  Do i still have a point? Actually i don't think so, i think that most of the thoughts i have had about this movie are obvious and self evident. It is just very nice to have them relate well.  If you want to get to know me better, you can go and see it. 

   Know what, i think i am going to go and have a nap.