My original plan was to snooze through my red-eye flight, but when I clicked through the list on the entertainment selection screen I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to catch Slumdog Millionaire (you might have heard of it?) and Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky — two movies I wanted to see, anyway. I was a bit skeptical of Slumdog as I don’t buy into hype or buzz, but it was captivating and right up my anthropology alley… I also like Danny Boyle’s early work (Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, specifically).
It is a rather sad state of affairs lately that the majority of my film-watching happens on airplanes, but I can squeeze in four during my Toronto/Vancouver journeys so I put on the headphones and forfeit sleep.
Forfeiting the sleep, however, has its consequences in the form of broken English and limited brain power the whole day after I deplane, so I’ll keep this short while I continue to plow through my backlogged TO-DO list and tackle the easier stuff first — like backing up all my trip photos (1,000+ in less than two weeks). The cutie-pie in the picture is Maribeth on our birthday outing. She’s tiny with a wee voice but she has a big personality.
