02/18/2007: "Crash and Burn"

music: Hippy New Age Crap
mood: Motivated

It's been so dry for so long and then last weekend it rains buckets and I mean BUCKETS for nearly 24 hours straight and there's an inch or more of standing water on all ther roads and in some cases a lot more. This of course does not deter people from driving like reatards. In fact I think it makes them expotentially more dangerous. Driving home on the 101 from helping a friend move last Saturday it was actually kind of scary and I don't nerve easily as I survived the Alex Greenwood School of Defensive Driving, but people were just driving too fast and too close to each other. And as is usually the case, I knew before it happened it was just destined to be. A fender bender of sorts which could have been really horrendous if not for my cat like skills, the cat like skills of the cars behind me and my kick ass guardian angel. No injuries, but essentially a woman spun out in the fast lane causing a chain reaction. Hydroplaning, break lights everywhere and all sorts of stuff, and the only two cars to hit each other of course, mine and Mr Tim Phan's. The woman spun into the median but didn't hit anyone and didn't get hit amazingly as she was turned completely the wrong way. I did some "controlled" defensive driving fishtailing with no traction but even the Greenwood school of driving couldn't prevent me from ultimately, gently gliding into mr Phan who was nearly stopped in the lane to my left.



I never know when things like that happen whether they happen becuase I was THINKING less than a minute before, "what would I do if I had to stop suddenly and lost control of the car in this weather on the highway, remember to turn into the spin first" or if I thought that becuase I knew it would happen. And then sometimes you wonder what the real timelin of it all is. It's a matter of a few seconds, slowed down, but when does the though REALLY occur to you, after it's already started but befor you consiously know, or is it well before. Cause or Effect. Who knows. Anyway, as I said, no harm done, my car, fucking awesome vehicle of justice that he is, came out virtually unscathed. I just have to glue in the little orange reflecter side light thingy (technical term). Mr Phan's car had a dent which I don't know why it wasn't bigger, but both of us insured, and I have the best insurance company ever, should be no problem thought they haven't called me back yet. I got home safe after that and the rain has stopped to reveal excellent almost spring like weather this weekend. Of course I've been in the office most of it, but no matter.


On a Karmic note I do think it ammusing that I got up EARLY on SAT, bought my friend coffee, helped her move, got a call from work about something NOT my fault, rushed over to the office to fix it, did my reporting early so I could go back and help Cheryl finish moving stuff into storage, didn't eat lunch so I would be able to help, didn't even PEE after 9 in the morning, and after all these lovely wonderful helpful things, I some how still end up in a car accident. But the first accident in 5 years. The CLEAR thing though I really have to believe is that it is a bloody miracle at 60 miles an hour with such limited visibility, no one else skid into me or hit me and the damage was so minimal. So I'm glad I wasn't lazy today, I think it paid off big time. And I was very proud of myself for how calm I was. I should have been a surgeon. That and I imagine having a bright yellow car doesn't hurt.

Post "trauma" I nested a bit and watched some films....

Lucky Number Slevin: GREAT. CLEVER. A surprise at how well written and executed it is, no surprise that Ben Kingsly, Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis are the bombs. BOOM. SO fun to watch them. And Lucy Liu and Josh Harnett had great Chemistry. You will pleased to know I was mostly surprised but the end as well. Mostly. 4 1/2 RRD's

Saw II: Good stuff. Mostly Predictable but less so than the first one. Sick Sick stuff. Love it. Saw III at home.

The Dead Girl: Saw this in the theatre. A "film" not a movie. Very arty, slow moving, obscure, and the first movie in a long time where I wasn't SURE I knew some of the things that happened or didn't. A very Vague film in some places, but good. Brittany Murphy, Toni Collette, Piper Laurie, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Marcia Gay Harden and many more make this movie worth watching. Not easy to watch but worthwhile. 3 RRD's

Interspersed with movies, Saw Prelude to a Kiss at Northside which was very respectable and evoked many a laugh from me in the good way, Saw La Traviata with the Artsopolis Team which was a fun evening but mostly due to the happy hour before hand, saw the SJ Ballet Repatoire program which had two outstanding pieces and two less outstanding pieces, and this morning before coming into work to battle an ever irritating computer, I saw some great photographs at the De Saissant Museum in Santa Clara. Very Cultured. Filthy room. But Cultured.

For those of you who have been so patient, yes, next week is the date. His arrival is preceeded with lovely flowers that arrived on Friday and if the universe plays nice you won't hear from me for a few. It's been crazy as it is, and I've noticed a huge increase in nightmares that make little to know sense (people drowning, people breaking up, cats tails fallng off, odd odd stuff) except that I attribute them to all that is going on work and theatre wise. I was glad I got to go see some stuff and not have to work the events as well as visit with some friends. My apologies for not keeing in touch as much as I would like, but sometime in July I should be more apt to return calls and emails in a more timely manner.

More soon....