Another holiday.....yes, I'm home again. It's another holiday, Martin Luther King I believe. Last pay period I only worked 56 hours! I saw this one coming and offered to work next Saturday for the doctor who had center team clinic so I won't lose the days pay!
I went to the Native Heritage Museum film festival on Saturday-at least part of it. I didn't get there until late due to the bathing suit issue, which I am not going to go into again-we've all suffered enough over that problem! Only to mention I bought TWO suits so I won't be caught suitless again!
Anyway, I got there in time to see a couple of shorts and, most importantly, the film I most wanted to see-Mystic Ball. What a wonderful film!!! Gregg Hamilton was there for the screening and received the only standing ovation of the weekend....and it was well deserved. The film is about the game of chinlone, but it is about much more. It is about friendship, love (not the romantic kind) and how this noncompetitive game brings this to people. I said noncompetitive-not easy as it requires great skill!
The other full length feature movie was at the end of the night (scheduled for 9:45 but the festival was running late) but I decided to stay. There were a couple of shorts between the two, including one that was from New Zealand.
But, the final film was Expiration Date and it was also very, very good! I would recommend it also....but, Mystic Ball was by far my favorite even though it was a documentary and the other film was a movie type movie.
This is one of the real advantages to the city- two days of FREE wonderful films introduced by the film maker who then answered questions and hung around after to just talk about their films!
Well, while in the film mode I am going to sign off and watch the Al Gore film with my landlady, Joanne.
News from Texas is that after two or three days or being confined indoors due to ice the sun appeared briefly today and they were able to slowly crawl out to go to the grocery store or whatever. Mike hasn't worked in three days and is still not sure about what tomorrow will bring-I'm glad he had a few days to enjoy. He had my mouth watering talking about what all he cooked-beans (if you've had his beans you're mouth would be watering now too!) and mince meat pie (if you aren't from the south you might not know what that is and most of us from the south haven't had it since the generation before last stopped fixing it!)....if he's said chocolate chip cookies or apple pie I might be highjacking a plane now! (Oh, I guess I better be careful saying something like that-I might get thrown in jail under the Patriot Act!)
Happy Martin Luther King day!