Sarah

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://musicisart.ws/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/where-the-wild-things-are1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 214px;" src="http://musicisart.ws/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/where-the-wild-things-are1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>i saw Where the Wild Things Are with Joanna today instead of working.  it was amazing... and the fact that dave eggers co-wrote the screenplay explains a lot.  i spent most of the movie thinking how familiar a lot of the characters seemed (if you haven't read "a heartbreaking work of staggering genius" or something else by eggers, lemme know, i'll mail it to you, because, no matter how self-gratifying, he's one of my favorite authors, and i want my friends to like him too).

it was depressing in that, after many years and a lot of distance, i really understand it.  max reminds me a lot of zach... albeit, zach is older and slightly less angry, but it's the same needy, attention-seeking, easy to set off behavior that comes from feeling like the people who are supposed to take care of you aren't.  i know because i felt the same way once, and like max and me, zach will eventually recognize that my mom is doing the best she can.

it's supposed to be 68 degrees out tomorrow, after having been 32 on friday.  i would seriously appreciate it if the weather would just decide what season it is.

is everyone coming home (or at least back to PA) at some point over Christmas break?