Well, the pussy cat and I are hanging out here until I have to leave for a Medieval dinner and Crown Tournament over in Elora. My friend is taking me. She made me a dress and everything. How nice of her. If I am lucky we might get some pics. Speaking of pics, my web cam now works, so for those of you who are curious, you can find me on this page. I hope to start to learn to do some of my OWN coding, not this cheating stuff were all the hard parts are done for me. Still, this was an easy way for me to get started, and learn to play with colour schemes. I have no intention of abandoning this format any time soon. Well, it is pouring rain, and since my old car has a nasty leak right over the drivers seat, I am sure to be dripped on by the time I get to Welesly. TTFN

Boy, it's been a while since I made an entry here. I've been meaning to blog a link one of my friends linked to in her blog a few days ago. As a nanny, I have certainly read "Love You Forever" many, many times, and I must admit, I had never really looked at it quite THAT way before. However I'm not sure the author of this page is being entirely fair. This is Robert Munch after all. If anyone has read many Robert Munch, as I certainly have, you know that he is famous for stretching the truth, using hyperbole if you will, to make the point of the story. These are not intended as realistic children's stories, so if you take them too seriously, yah, they become a little creepy and strange. To me, the strangest thing about "Love You Forever" is not the story itself, but the illustrations, and their relation to the story. Did you ever wonder when the story takes place? The story should span the course of about 30 years, yet it is nearly impossible to place the time period based on dress and objects in the illustrations. And isn't the problem of the single bed and the sudden appearance of a baby girl with apparently no mother really only a problem of the illustrations and not the story? If you want to have some fun reading a Robert Munch book from a grown-up perspective, I recommend "The Fire Station". My favourite line is "...you're too dirty."
I also noticed Selene's entry on being 'well read'. I found the list of 100 best works of fiction in the Globe, and went through the list to see what I recognized/had read. I was surprised by some of them, hadn't heard of several of course. A friend of mine in classics had of course read all the ancient Greek and Latin stuff. Being an English minor I was more likely to have read many of English classics. But there are many, many classics there that I simply haven't gotten around to reading. I used to go through phases with different authors over the course of my life. First there was Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House books, I never watched the T.V. show), then L.M. Montgomery (Emily series, I avoided the Anne books for a while, but finaly succommed), C.S. Lewis (Narnia series, I read some theological stuff in highschool), Agatha Christie (mystery woman extraordinaire), and Margaret Mitchell. (I know she only wrote one novel, but I read Gone With the Wind twice, and a thick book like that for a grade 7 student was a heavy read for me then. I also read Scarlett, but only once. It paled in comparison to it's predicessor.) In high school I discovered E.M. Forster (and the Merchant Ivory movies to go with them), and then Jane Austen (and the many movies of those which were made at the time), as well as the Brontes. I didn't actually finish Wuthering Heights until university. Recently, I have been on a Margaret Atwood kick.
In some ways I have done that with movies as well. My favourite movie store, Gen X, used to stack all their movies by director, which was very intelligent I think. I have been working my way through movies by Greenaway, and his inspiration Felini. A friend and I have watched Throis Coleurs, and the Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieslowski. I really like his films. All interesting takes on the theme of love between human beings, to my thinking, especially Trois Coleurs, (Bleu, Blanc, and Rouge). Well, I think that is enough for now. Perhaps I will go into more detail on some of these movies later.