Watched Intolerable Cruelty and Runaway Jury last night. Both were pretty much what I expected-- not brilliant, but kind of fun and filled with pretty people. I've never been a huge fan of the Coen Brothers (I hated O Brother, Where Art Thou?), but I think they handled the Cruelty script quite well, and who wouldn't want to stare at George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones for a few hours? As for Jury, well, anything starring my future husband (John Cusack) has to be good, and I've always enjoyed Dustin Hoffman's work.

No more alcohol.
No more boys.

I'm giving up the last of my vices. At least until tomorrow.

And the best part about Vidal's book? Only novel I've ever read (and I've read a LOT of them) that discusses Helen Schucman's channeled text, A Course in Miracles. And since I'm the world's leading authority on ACIM (having published the only existing academic work on the subject), I think that's really cool.

Yeah, so working all day and then looking for jobs/running at night kinda takes it out of me. I'm loving goinh to work every day though! I filed for 8 hours today, and it was the most fun I've had in a long time. That's not quite as sick as it sounds b/c there's 4 of us talking the whole time we're doing office work. And, sure, we're all way overeducated to be filing and copying, but hey, people's futures depend on what we're doing, so it has to be done well. And they've got stuff for me to do through next week if nothing else comes through, so maybe I won't go totally broke and/or crazy.

For those of you fascinated by DaVinci Code and The Passion, I'd like to suggest two other vastly superior works: Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and Gore Vidal's Live From Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal. Neither is an easy read, but they're much better fictional expositions on early Christianity than their more popular counterparts, and still fun. So use your college educations, and read good books. (And if you understand them, explain them to me!)

I'd forgotten how much fun it was to go to work :) No, it's nothing real or permanent, but I was productive today!

And now I'm very, very tired. Working is bad for marathon training. Must go run. Must not fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV.