12. What was your last dream about?
I vaguely recall something this morning about a road trip and puzzles, but I’m not sure. The one before that (the previous day) was a nightmare about long-past-their-sell-by-date granola bars that I did not notice were ancient until after I had eaten one.
16. Favorite movie?
I don’t think I have one? I’m not big on video in general*: it’s overstimulating, there’s too much to pay attention to and it doesn’t patiently wait for you while you process what’s already happened. The bigger a chunk the video comes in, the worse it is.
The weekend The Force Awakens came out, I watched the original-ish** Star Wars movie for the first time, for cultural literacy reasons. I talked Mom–who was watching with me–into breaking it up into two one-hour chunks on separate days. She’s always a little upset when this sort of thing comes up, because ”You used to love movies!” and I’m not as good at them as I used to be. I’m not sure why: maybe I’ve been spoiled by the text-focused Internet.
*Yes, I know this is ironic given that we met by watching Star Trek together.
**I borrowed a VHS from a friend, and it said it was a 20th anniversary edition with updated special effects and some integrated deleted scenes. It’ll have to do.
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