Chez Nuclear Sunrisette

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted for a long time. I've been in Outlook all week and then today we moved. I'll back up and explain my week.

I got a job at the grocery store in Outlook. I'll be mostly working in the meat department but I spent all week cashiering just so I know how to work everything. Things are great there - the people I work with are nice, the bosses are awesome and the work doesn't seem to be too bad. Plus I'm living at home and it's nice to be with my family again.

Last Friday Jess came to Regina. We spent the weekend there and I got most of my stuff ready to move. Then on Monday we went to Outlook cuz I started work on Tuesday. I worked till Thursday and then on Friday we came back to Regina. This morning Mom, Dad and Yonny came in and we packed everything up. Yonny spent the night (well I guess "is" spending the night cuz it's technically still tonight if that makes sense).

We went to the Amytiville movie thingy. I really can't remember what it was called but I thought it was good. The boys' opinions differed slightly from mine. I think I liked it the best out of the the three of us.

Anyway that's all. I just wanted to let all of you know that I'm still going to be updating, I just haven't had a computer to update on for awhile.

I felt like a guest celebrity yesterday. I went back to Indian Head for a visit to see the class that I interned with. I had a big mob of kids around me the minute I stepped onto the playground. They all had stories for me. One little guy in my class actually split his head open on the playground that morning and had to go to the doctor and get 4 stitches. That was the biggest news. One girl stated that he was "brain-damaged". He came back for the afternoon because Melona told his mom I was coming as a surprise. I swear, the kids looked at him in a new way. They all crowded around him and asked him questions. That's when the brain-damaged comment came up. So cute!

Oh I meant to tell y'all what I thought of the movie Chocolat. I was not impressed with it. The book was soooo much better. Yeah, yeah, I know that's usually the case but they really changed some aspects of the book for the movie. You know the mayor in the movie, and the priest? They're one character in the book, as the priest. I don't think the word mayor is in it anywhere. I had a harder time following those characters because the stuff the priest did in the book was split up between these two characters. I think a lot of his/their part in the story was lost as a result. Don't ask me how, I just think it was. I didn't think that the priest's temptation was a big part in the movie; the movie consisted more of the daily things in everyone else's life. In the book it's one of the majorest themes! And that was probably my favourite part of the whole book - seeing the priest almost go crazy from the temptation of the chocolate.

There were also a lot of little things. Guillaume's dog Charlie dies and he gets a new one. Guillaume doesn't fall in love with one of those old ladies. There's stuff with Roux and Josephine in the book. (Maybe I shouldn't be giving this away for you.) Yeah, little things like that. I won't say any more that will give stuff away but I will say that I hated how Vianne was portrayed in the movie. She was shown as weak and with a lot of feelings... hmmm.. I guess they just showed her as human. But in the book she seemed so strong and she never cried or got mad. That's what I liked about her.

There's my rant on Chocolat. If you've never seen it, sorry if I ruined it for you. But you're better off reading the book.

I apologize for not updating sooner. I've been at my parents' since Wednesday and I was having problems with my password. Turns out I had the completely wrong password. I feel kinda silly.

But anyway, today I remembered and now I'm updating. As thrilling as my updates always are, I'm sure you really don't care.

I do have big and exciting news though. I'm moving back home for the summer. I'm not sure when exactly; it'll be within a week or two. I don't have a job lined up for sure yet but the grocery store in Outlook seemed interested and Home Hardware said that they would be hiring in the near future. So there are some prospects. I did end up getting the Booster Juice job. I'm really surprised by that because the head cheese didn't seem thrilled with the prospect of hiring someone who was definitely moving away in August. But they offered it to me nonetheless which tells me one of two things: a) that they really liked me, or b) that the other person they interviewed on Friday was really really bad. I turned it down anyway.

Right now I'm reading a book about the Holocaust. It's called Holocost (original hey?) and it was made into or based on a tv special. It tells the story about the Holocaust from the perspectives of a Jew and of a SS officer. It's really neat to see both sides. The officer joined because he needed a job and eventually found himself in a high-up position and justifying what he was doing. And they're both true accounts too. Most, if not all, of the dialogue is fictional but the general accounts are real. The Jew wrote it from a first hand perspective and filled in other parts from interviews, and he also came across the officer's diary, which he could date to the month and year and then construct the story from there.

Wow, that sounded all intellectual and stuff. Tune in next month for Megan's Reading Club apparently... Anyway, there's just dial-up here so I should wrap this up.

Comment people!! (Brea, I did try to comment in yours but the whole password thing prevented it. In retrospect I could have signed in anonymously. Oh well. When I get back to Regina tomorrow I'll leave you a message.)