Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
Sometimes sex and drinking is the only way to go.
I know. So crass. But after my post-return slump last week I find myself feeling a hell of a lot better today which I am chalking up to a Sunday spent in pursuit of nothing more than food, drink and time in bed with my guy. Sure, I’m a tad hungover this morning, and have a mountain of work to tackle, but I can’t stop smiling. It’s that good.
Besides that I spent the weekend reading, going for a walk, and seeing a bad movie in an actual theatre (I Am Legend – it’s awful – the only redeeming feature is envisioning post-apocalypse New York if you’re into that sort of thing. Even Resident Evil Three was more fun to watch than this.) Oh, and there was some tidying of the apartment and laundry in there too.
Really, it just felt right to be home, to have a whole day with Brian, to putter around without any concrete plans or expectations. I have one more weekend like that before being away from home for 10 or 11 days between my next trip to Ottawa and heading over to Victoria for my birthday. As much as I enjoyed my holiday, I am feeling a little over-traveled at the moment and thinking that my recreating in the next several months should be focused a little closer to home in order to get the maximum relaxation benefit.
This week marks the start of a pretty constant schedule for the next four months. It’s work, it’s union, it’s collective bargaining and hell, there is even some social stuff in there as well. I’m starting to think that 2008 looks like it might be a decent year with the way my life is unfolding right now.
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Red Cedar 
i watched “i am legend” this past weekend too, or tried to at any rate… luckily my version was a pirated disc brought over by a friend, so i could calmly retired to the other room when i realized that it’s got more horror than i like in my post-apocalyptic narratives.
though i only watched the first half, i was still struck by what i’d been told about it, specifically by the folks over in this thread on the feminist science fiction blog: the film went beyond hollywood stereotypes in its portrayal of people of colour. check out the discussion over at the blog, if you’re interested!
I agree that its representation was better than most films – however, if you see the “refuge paradise” at the end of the film – you will note that the first thing you see upon the character entering the village see is a church, and the town though populated by people of all races, is very much the white christian ideal of america (it’s set in vermont of all things too).
I’m also not sure that I can buy the whole “need to save the human race” premise in any event. Obviously if we fuck it up so bad we kill most of the population, we probably deserve to go extinct.