Spiderman 3

... sucked donkey testicles or something equally foul. It was easily one (twelve?) of the worst movies I've ever seen. Possibly twelve because I think I counted that many plot lines and watching it felt about that long. Nothing held together, the only decent acting came out of sorely underused extras like Bryce Dennis Howard and Topher Grace, and poor Hayden what's his name spent the whole movie looking dumbfounded and confused, like he wasn't sure what he was doing on the set of this movie rather than one that would actually allow him to use his talent. The main actors were pretty much uniformly terrible.

Shrek 3, on the other hand, was completely fantastic, as was Hot Fuzz. Hot Fuzz made me laugh so hard I almost lost bladder control.

Movies aside, Kalamazoo was the predictably alcoholic boozefest it was last year, tons of fun, really interesting, neat panels, and helped me narrow down the century I think I'm planning on working in - I'm going Anglo-Norman lit of late twelfth into the thirteenth centuries and looking either at chronicles (always some odd love of mine) or at the popular romances featuring knights who can't seem to decide if they're protagonists of romances or saint's lives. I'm going to worry about that more in another week or two. I need to start brushing up on my Old French. Joy.

On a really happy fun note, Alan's coming in to town late tonight and Tony and I have a billion plans for him. We're cooking all day tomorrow (basically because we can) while watching anime with Alan and playing cards and drinking beer. We're going into NYC on Tuesday. Still not sure what we're doing there - we can't decide between Chinatown or uptown near the park. I'll let Tony do sales pitches for each as he knows the city better and we'll go with whatever seems most amusing to Alan. And we'll take the subway at some point, because I think everyone should take the NYC subway at some point in their lives... Other than that, I'm not sure what we're doing later in the week other than we're having dinner with Tony's parents on Wednesday so that Alan can meet them (and try grappa!), and going down to the Italian Market in Philly either Thursday or Friday. Alan leaves Saturday :.( We're going to try and fit in going to Pirates as well, since that comes out this upcoming week.

Other than that, in the glorious week off we've had, I've gotten a massage that left me bruised pretty badly because I had some knots down in my lower back by my hips that were just that tight, I've perfected a jerk marinade for chicken so hot I can barely eat it, Tony marinaded some fish in a chili-lime sauce that was pretty good, and we've basically just fed ourselves and goofed off all week. I finally got the first three Harry Potter books that I didn't have and started the first re-read of the summer - I've gotten through book one and half of book two so far. I think Snape's going to be evil at the moment. Harry's dreams have a tendency to be right, and there's this weird dream in book one that has Snape turning into Voldemort (or vice versa). I don't think Snape IS Voldemort (though JKR IS that sneaky and I'm not sure I can think of a scene where the two are together), but I'm pretty sure that he'll turn out evil in the end.
And I'm still pissed that she killed off Sirius, especially since Sirius is Gary Oldman in the movies and I don't want him to not be around - he was pathetically underused in the fourth film, and he's really an amazing actor....

Nunk had to go to the vet again this week and they've diagnosed her as having allergies or possibly some other immune disorder. She's on a pill that seems to be really helping - she's been less skittish and in a better, cuddlier mood than she's been in for months now. She's finally starting to PLAY again. I hadn't realized how long it had been until I saw her playing with her carrot a couple of nights ago and couldn't remember the last time I'd seen that. I'm trying to flip her and Piggers onto new food, but they HATE the kibbles I got them, and won't go near them or touch them or anything. So I got some new stuff and we'll try this. Grrrrrrr.... finicky little twerps. Nunk's on medicine now every day for a month and then we'll be trying to wean her off of it - hopefully she'll be able to stay off of it (meaning it's a food allergy), but if we wean her off and the symptoms come back she may be on it forever. It's a really cheap medicine, but it's sad that something's this wrong with her when she's so young - she's pretty much exactly Jamie's age. Poor baby doesn't deserve it. Anyway, I'm not sure how we're going to handle being gone so much if she has to take medicine every day - it won't be bad when Tony's mom is around, especially now that Nunk's warmed up to her, but we're not sure what we're doing about Maine and Florida yet. I'm almost not sure I'll be able to go to Maine. We're going to check into kenneling them for that trip since I don't know anyone who will be around that I can trust to have give her medicine every day... Ugh. At least she's starting to feel better... she curled up on my lap and purred for about two straight hours last night. I've missed my kitty.

Things otherwise are going well. I'm off to give Nunk medicine and then read Harry Potter and wait for Alan to get here.