Road trip! We went out of town for a long weekend. The only trouble is that the roads around this region are pretty much designed -- and maintained -- to keep the German army from advancing. And when the roads are okay, the cops are blocking traffic to extort "fines" from people in foreign cars. Yeah, it ain't getting your kicks on Route 66, but I'll take what I can get.
Movie reviews from this weekend: The Day After Tomorrow - good special effects do not make up for a cheesy script and thinly veiled soapboxing, no matter how long you suspend your disbelief. At least Ian Holm is working. Troy - remind me to watch this one again with my dad, the Classics major, so he can tell me exactly what's wrong with the adaptation besides glossing over the whole gays-in-the-ancient-Greek-military thing. (C'mon, Brad, if you played a gay hero, maybe Tom Cruise would finally get up the nerve to come out.) Peter O'Toole is marvelous, of course, and Orlando Bloom plays a delightfully wussy Paris. Nice change of pace after three years of orc-stomping Legolas. Worth catching on big screen, just try not to say "Peter Jackson does CGI meatgrinders better!" out loud.

Got this from a friend who dragged my sorry behind all over Paris, death-marching me and my dear husband from spectacular museum to splendid restaurant to spectacular view all over the joint. In exchange, he got to listen to me experience morning sickness in his bathroom (sorry, dude). When I'm recovering from pregnancy and nursing, I will start training for this event.

Eventually I will scrape up some more technical proficiency and create a blog without using a blogger template, so it will look a little less like a Hallmark card. Eventually I'll have columns with clever links and so on. In the meantime, if you want to e-mail me, drop a line to purplescareblog@yahoo.com.

So welcome to my blog, which I have started on a whim in the hope that it will help me keep in touch with people. A blog will also allow me to mouth off about the various stresses I've been under (and will be for the next few months!) I will maintain my anonymity -- at least to the casual browser. I'm no Washingtonienne. Most readers will probably see this because I told them to visit, but hey, all are welcome to read my little rants and comments. That's the beauty of push-button publishing under a pseudonym. Modern technology lets us all have our little soapboxes.
So hi and welcome.