The Film Noir Experience

I arrived back in Buffalo, a week ago today, yowling kittens in tow. In the past week we have:

• Applied for jobs.
• Watched the better part of the first season of Rome
• Watched the better part of the the second season of Numbers
• Watched all of the second season of Waking the Dead
• Read the first Sookie Stackhouse book
• Cleaned the better part of the apartment
• All but unpacked from moving in
• Watched the BBC's most recent adaptation of Sense and Sensibility
• Made lemon frosted, lemon filled, lemon flavored cupcakes.
• Watched Stranger than Fiction, Hot Fuzz, and Detour
• Made stuffed peppers
• Made our first ever batch of cider orange marmalade
• Took the kittens for their first round of shots and "Sorry, we're taking your bits" surgery
• Hung out with some people
• Were general lazy bodies, only changing out of our pajamas to shower and get into a clean pair.

What can we gather from this? That I have spent the past week using my Netflix subscription for all that it is worth. But, now the laziness must end because the semester begins today. I have some things to print out, but I have a feeling that will have to wait until later because my connection to the University's blackboard service keeps timing out. I find this annoying. The kittens, who are still technically on "no grooming and no playing" orders have been running around like wild beasts of the forest all morning. Although, they've gone quiet so I imagine they are settling down for an afternoon nap. (Cooper just climbed into my lap, so I think he thinks he's going to get to nap there. I, however, am headed into campus when I am done here, so that will not be the case.)

With the beginning of the semester comes the requisite promises to the Gods that I will do things in exchange for their help in not failing, i.e. new semester resolutions. (I suppose we could call them new year resolutions on a lunar year, but that's not really the case, because I do this every semester.) I suspect I will post about that later tonight.

And, now I am off to buy books and have coffee with a friend to catch up.