![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ateolfHad a very ambitious and productive day yesterday. I wanted to make it to the Friends of the Library booksale, pick up lunch from Payne's, and make it to my first Indie Memphis movie by 1! The library sale started at 10 am, Payne's opened at 11, and I already said when the movie starts! So I got to the library at 10 and browsed the sale. I picked up some books: Puttering About in a Small Land by Philip K. Dick (well, this is one I already have, I'm much better about checking my librarything but I just was SURE I didn't have this one...but I have it in a different edition with a different cover from what I picked up so I fooled myself!), Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (¡en español! no tengo este libro en inglés), The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre, Obasan by Joy Kogawa, The Tempest by William Shakespeare, and Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut. Then in the remaining time I went across to the regular bookstore in the library and picked up a few more for about the same price: Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov, Typee by Herman Melville, and The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Then I made it over to Payne's just in time to be one minute before opening. So I sat in my car with a couple others already parked. Then when they flipped the sign around I was in and second in line so I didn't have to wait very long. By the time I ordered the line behind me had grown considerably. I brought some rib sandwiches home to Mary Beth and we had a delicious lunch. (And here I'll say that my plan worked perfectly and ran like clockwork!)
Then it was off to my first movie: Celine and Julie Go Boating. This was a fantastic movie! I hadn't seen it before, but it's definitely one of the best French new wave movies I've seen now. I had a medium-length break before the next movie and I wasn't planning on going home but then I did (at least the festival is going on just a few blocks away) so I got to have dinner with Mary Beth. Then back for the next movie: Neige. It was fun seeing Juliet Berto in two movie back-to-back that are almost a decade apart. Neige was more of a gritty streets/drug movie. It was good. Okay, then I had a long break so I definitely went back home for that bit of time. Back to Studio on the Square to meet up with Mary Beth and watch our last movie for the day: Mississippi River Styx. It's a documentary about this guy who had cancer so he decided to float a dilapidated pontoon boat all the way down the Mississippi River. The movie meets up with him starting in West Helena. You get some feel for the partially flooding and falling apart boat (of course all the dangers are talked about). Then down to New Orleans and down to very end at Venice, LA. So then there's a big thing of, well, he made the entire journey, now what? The boat couldn't make it upriver. So after the town has a huge welcoming party, he's there for several months. Then there's a turn where people aren't sure if he'd been lying about his condition (or at least in a murky way, where maybe he had cancer but not as bad as he'd made it out) and then he's seen as mooching off the town and they mostly turn against him. So that part of it was interesting. Then it ends when he decides to keep going and go across the open Gulf to Gulfport, MS. And you're sure that he's going to die but then the postscript is that he made it. The filmmakers were there for a q&a too so it's the first one of those I got.
I'd thought my neck was feeling a little better yesterday. I'd been trying to do more stretches consistently throughout the day (also stretching my arms/shoulders). And I'd been trying to avoid bad posture as much as possible. I'd realized reading in bed has not been good, so I've been finding other places to read. But then I got to bed at night and it was hurting as bad as ever. I finally tried ice instead of just the hot water bottle and I think that helped. Over the course of these past few weeks I've had other days where it will go back and forth between seeming better and getting worse again. I'm hoping if I'm consistent it will finally go away over time. Or I'll just have to wait a few months til I can see a doctor.
Then I made it over to Payne's just in time to be one minute before opening. So I sat in my car with a couple others already parked. Then when they flipped the sign around I was in and second in line so I didn't have to wait very long. By the time I ordered the line behind me had grown considerably. I brought some rib sandwiches home to Mary Beth and we had a delicious lunch. (And here I'll say that my plan worked perfectly and ran like clockwork!)
Then it was off to my first movie: Celine and Julie Go Boating. This was a fantastic movie! I hadn't seen it before, but it's definitely one of the best French new wave movies I've seen now. I had a medium-length break before the next movie and I wasn't planning on going home but then I did (at least the festival is going on just a few blocks away) so I got to have dinner with Mary Beth. Then back for the next movie: Neige. It was fun seeing Juliet Berto in two movie back-to-back that are almost a decade apart. Neige was more of a gritty streets/drug movie. It was good. Okay, then I had a long break so I definitely went back home for that bit of time. Back to Studio on the Square to meet up with Mary Beth and watch our last movie for the day: Mississippi River Styx. It's a documentary about this guy who had cancer so he decided to float a dilapidated pontoon boat all the way down the Mississippi River. The movie meets up with him starting in West Helena. You get some feel for the partially flooding and falling apart boat (of course all the dangers are talked about). Then down to New Orleans and down to very end at Venice, LA. So then there's a big thing of, well, he made the entire journey, now what? The boat couldn't make it upriver. So after the town has a huge welcoming party, he's there for several months. Then there's a turn where people aren't sure if he'd been lying about his condition (or at least in a murky way, where maybe he had cancer but not as bad as he'd made it out) and then he's seen as mooching off the town and they mostly turn against him. So that part of it was interesting. Then it ends when he decides to keep going and go across the open Gulf to Gulfport, MS. And you're sure that he's going to die but then the postscript is that he made it. The filmmakers were there for a q&a too so it's the first one of those I got.
I'd thought my neck was feeling a little better yesterday. I'd been trying to do more stretches consistently throughout the day (also stretching my arms/shoulders). And I'd been trying to avoid bad posture as much as possible. I'd realized reading in bed has not been good, so I've been finding other places to read. But then I got to bed at night and it was hurting as bad as ever. I finally tried ice instead of just the hot water bottle and I think that helped. Over the course of these past few weeks I've had other days where it will go back and forth between seeming better and getting worse again. I'm hoping if I'm consistent it will finally go away over time. Or I'll just have to wait a few months til I can see a doctor.
