Saturday, February 11, 2023

trains, complaints, and all the feels

Last week when At was here for dinner, we watched White Noise, the new film based on Don DeLillo's 1980's novel. Earlier this week, I was shocked by how presciently that movie mimicked this week's train derailment in Ohio... I was pretty weirded out by how the news photo of the derailed cars looked identical to the movie scene with derailed cars. It turns out that some the people affected by the Ohio derailment actually acted in the film?!? That's a bit too 'life mimics art' for me.  (Also: our house is close to a train track, so my interest in these calamities tends to be emotional rather than rational.)

Today, I left the fam after Nu's Boss Day Sushi dinner to do drinks and a movie with girlfriends... I don't think I've done that since early 2020. I had dessert instead of a drink as I'd been working since 5 am and thought I might fall asleep if I had a drink. Guess what? I fell asleep anyway--it's difficult not to in those super comfy reclining seats. But that's ok. Being silly and chatty and loud was the point anyway--all that I got to do. 

Pic: Huck, Scout, Big A, At, and Nu in the rumpus room when I said goodbye to them.

7 comments:

Nicole said...

I'm trying to think if I was in a derailment or other disaster, would I want to be in a movie about it? Probably not, but maybe it was therapeutic?

I'm glad you had fun with your girlfriends! Even if you did end up sleeping.

maya said...

Nicole, they were in the movie *before* they were in the disaster! Crazy!

StephLove said...

That is crazy about the actors being a train derailment later.

I covet your bookshelves.

maya said...

StephLove--I really love them too. They are proper library style metal shelves because all our previous ones would kind of sag with the weight. They are shelved by subject and the fiction is alphabetized. I would share :)!

StephLove said...

Now I am even more jealous, knowing they are organized.

Half my books are in boxes in the basement, with no organizing principle, but Beth had North catalog them for 25 cents a book and now when I want to know where a book is I just ask North and they look at their phone and say "Box 5." Alphabetized would be better, but it works.

Sarah said...

Love a good night out with friends-- the first one after covid made us all cry a little.

maya said...

I love North as your personal librarian, StephLove. You are probably way more organized. Only the fiction is alphabetized--for other subjects, I have to scan the shelf...

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