Kind of a day off...

Except for that project, this has been a remarkably quiet day. As the "on-call" interpreter, my job is pretty much to have my radio with me at all times and stay conscious.

It's rare that the DVD library downstairs gets any new stuff that's any good, or even any stuff that might be a complete waste of time but at least of interest to me, but today, I happened to run across Inside Man, a Spike Lee film "joint" with Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster. The film's trailers never really impressed me, but hey! I had a little time to kill before lunch, so I watched it, and enjoyed it. The story line does a good job of keeping one wondering just where the story is going to go, and the series of revelations near the end - sort of a contemporary version of Hercule Poirot assembling everyone in the sitting room, except there's no sitting room, and you need a bus to accommodate "everyone" - just make things more mysterious.

As should be pretty obvious, the mystery is what hooked me. I enjoyed seeing Jodie Foster on the screen (and Willem Dafoe, too), though I'm not at all sure the character she played was all that necessary to move the plot forward (her appearance in the trailers made her seem more mysterious than she was in the film). But I'm carrying on about this film far longer than I had intended.

I wrote a letter to Huntür today, and asked one of the office staff to post it during today's excursion in town. I sort of felt bad last week when I realized that, by sending her new brother a letter, I was perhaps just reinforcing whatever feelings she might be experiencing of being relegated to "second fiddle" by the arrival of her brother. Then again, I may have imagined a mountain out of a molehill, and she might not be experiencing any such feelings at all, which would be simply fine by me. In the end, I wrote the letter because I felt like it, and not because of some "popular psychology" theorizing, and I hope she enjoys getting it.

The radio! I've been called! Ciao!

Cheers...