Weekend Update

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Friday night, Dana and I went out to Sine, which used to be a lot more fun until we discovered the AMAZING Fado in Atlanta. Still, good food and tasty beverages. We got out too late to see the Chronic(WHAT?)cles of Narnia, so we caught Walk The Line instead. What a great movie!! I knew very little about Johnny Cash (other than my mom telling me that when I was a toddler, I heard him on the television and started dancing like a fiend), so I can't say how true the movie holds to reality. But Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon did their own singing, and they nailed it all, and she is just the most darling thing that I want to eat her on crackers with a little spicy mustard.

Saturday, I went to the Science Museum of Richmond to meet up with the always-delightful mydwynter and her buddy Mary, who were working the Diagon Alley event. The moment I heard about this show, I thought it was the best idea EVER for a show -- crafts presented within a whole Harry Potter framework, and the opportunity to see HP4 on Imax. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough crafters, they certainly didn't have enough patrons (I realized it was a bad sign that I pulled up and was able to park right outside the museum entrance, no matter how much I may love the rockstar parking), and I was all gypped that they didn't deliver the animatronic owlery they'd mentioned (loves me the owls, ohyesIdo). But the three of us had some great giggles over the bad high school production of the Harry Potter dance routines, came up with some new band names, unsuccessfully tried to get Jill to go dance with the tallest and least untalented of the boys, rearranged a nice guy's pashmina display (do not put compulsive anal-retentives together) and finished up with yummy Greek food for supper. There must be more flaming cheese!!

Sunday was lazy -- Dana did more homework, we caught up on a few more episodes of The Shield, and then we had squad duty. FOUR calls, all of which I was precepting to be the AIC. Of the four, I feel pretty good about three of them (the fourth involved a small trailer, too many people, too many fire/police people standing around, and only a 9 year old who spoke any English -- my brain just seized up with all the complications rather than forging through with what I could. Must work on this.). Conversely, we ended up with almost NO sleep; I think I got about 45 minutes just before we came off duty at 6am.

Propped up drooling at my computer, I remain your faithful correspondent.