OF THE WEEKEND

4.5.98

Friday on the way home from work I stopped by Barnes & Noble and picked up some books. I bought "Bastard Out of Carolina" by Dorothy Allison after reading an interesting interview in Salon. I also purchased, on a whim, "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer. I've been wanting to read that but have been loathe to buy it in hardcover. T. and I have been reading it to each other the past couple of days. And, I bought the new ESPN magazine for T. I'm always curious about new publications -- so far it doesn't look too bad. In the evening we went out to dinner at a place in Playa Del Ray called Outlaws where the average burger costs "9 bucks 6 bits" which is actually less than the $9.60 I thought it would be and was more around $7.75.
We came home and watched "Bridge on the River Kwai" which is an old classic that, if I remember correctly, my parents love. Frankly, I didn't like the movie. I really thought the ending was lame. I would have liked for the colonel to have gone over and blown up that bridge himself. Maybe I have to be from a slightly different era to appreciate this movie. It did win several academy awards.

. . .     Saturday morning T. and I headed out bright and early for Macy's to fill out our wedding registry. All of my friends who have gotten married in the past year have all been unanimous in this point: zapping the bar-code reader willy-nilly at all sorts of things on your wish list is lot of fun. T. and I didn't have any fun. In fact we were having such an awful time that we left before we were finished. Part of the problem was us -- I'm fighting off some horrible cold, T. hadn't had any breakfast and we walked around the story sort of delirious trying to figure out what we wanted our future interior to look like. The rest of the problem was Macy's.
    First of all we couldn't find prices on much of the stuff. I fell in love with some bedding and after twenty minutes of hunting discovered that my beloved sheets were Calvin Klein and a flat sheet was like $70! We didn't want to pick stuff that was totally unreasonable. When we finally settled on some that were reasonable and that we liked they didn't have the right color in the right size. This wouldn't have been a problem if we could find anyone in the store who could help us. For a Saturday there were surprisingly few clerks and the ones that were around seemed to avoid us like the plague. Then the battery went dead on the zapper. That was the last straw and we headed out of Macy's.
    Next, we set out to the wedding of a friend of ours and had a jolly good time. Weddings are really tough to plan and the waiting is worse. T. seems to be favoring the band-aid removal method of nuptials. He thinks that something along the line of a quick jerk would be less painful then the drawn out planning and organizing. Really, I don't want to think much about the "big day" right now either. . . .     In the evening we took in the movie "Wild Things" which I kind of enjoyed but you could wait for it on video. The problem is that it had no climax. I'm also big on feeling sympathy towards one of the characters and when I don't I call it a bad movie. There was a shred of sympathy but they nipped it in the bud too quickly. . . .     Sunday we did boring things like laundry. We're trying out a new laundromat and were pleased. I've never extensively used a laundromat before and I'm always reminded of these tips in YM or Cosmo that told you one of the places to find a man was in the laundromat. I don't know where the editors of the magazine do their laundry but ladies -- he ain't there!

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