Monday, August 18, 2003

My computer spontaneously rebooted as I was posting something last night. I decided not to get involved with checking for the blaster worm virus just then since The Mayor of Casterbridge was getting ready to start. So I’ll check into that tonight when I get home. I can’t imagine how I got it, if I did, since I haven’t downloaded anything from the internet or opened attachments from email since that thing made it’s appearance.

The Mayor of Casterbridge was excellent, as expected. And I have to clarify that while the book was one that was read in my AP English class in high school, I didn’t actually read all of it. So what I remembered was from long ago class discussions about the book, which is how I managed to get a B+ in that class - class discussions. We “read” a ton of books in that class, but I only read two: Pride and Prejudice and Dante’s Inferno. We read Hamlet and King Lear out loud in class, so if you count those, then I read four.

An aside: Someone just microwaved something really smelly and it’s making me a little nauseated. Sometimes I hate being right next to the kitchen.

Anyway, back to the TV movie review - I give it 3 out of 4 stars, it loses a star only because there were a couple of places where things felt a little disjointed - like they super-edited for time (it was 3 hours).