How's your weekend going?

So the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series last night. To tell the truth, I didn’t actually watch any of the games this year, but I guess I was kind of rooting for Detroit. I figured if they were going to beat the Yankees in the playoffs, they might as well win the whole thing. Oh well. I’m just glad the Mets didn’t make it to the Series. It’s only fair. If the Yankees don’t win, then neither should the Mets. That’s my (completely skewed and nonsensical) philosophy. :)

I’m sad that baseball is officially over now. It was even more fun and interesting this year with my fantasy baseball league. And now I have to wait until April for things to get interesting again. Oh sure, I don’t mind a football game now and then, but football isn’t on every day. And there isn’t a football team I love as much as I love the Yankees. (Although Rutgers’ 7-0 record this year is very much intriguing me… Go Rutgers!! :) I’ll be paying attention to that game tomorrow…)

We went to see “The Prestige” last night at a new theater that just opened next to the new outlet mall. (So new, by the way, that the “new theater” smell overwhelmed the “stale popcorn” smell… I didn’t even know there was such a thing as “new theater” smell. New car smell, sure. But new theater? Didn’t know that.) It was a pretty decent film – a bit confusing at first, as most of the story is told in flashback and it’s hard to keep everything straight. But once you get into it, the story moves along nicely and you get caught up in the drama of the characters. There are a lot of twists and turns in the movie, so I can’t say too much without giving things away… but the gist of it is that the film follows a pair of rival magicians, each obsessed with besting the other. It’s a little dark and disturbing at times, and by the end, you’re not entirely sure who was the “good guy” and who was the “bad guy.” Or maybe BOTH were bad guys… or good guys… I’m not sure. You’ll just have to see it and decide for yourself.

I did just figure out that the guy who played the inventor Nikola Tesla in the movie was David Bowie – I’m glad to know that, because the entire time I was watching, I kept thinking, “gosh, that guy who’s playing the inventor Nikola Tesla looks a LOT like David Bowie…” And, incidentally, the guy who plays Tesla’s assistant is the guy who was so horribly digitized as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies… he cleans up well…

As we were leaving the movie, I almost fell backwards onto the stairs while I was walking down. Someone had decided to put their extra-large giant tub of popcorn right in the aisle, so I attempted to step around it… but with the dim lighting and slight feeling of disorientation from sitting in the dark for two hours, I started to lose my footing and stumbled backwards. To prevent an outright fall, I turned around, groping for a seat, still weaving in an awkward direction. I was finally able to climb up another stair toward Rick, who was walking behind me and provided a stable arm to lean on. When he asked what I was doing, I said “I was falling!” and he replied, “well, you make falling seem really graceful then, because I thought you were just going back to the seat because you forgot something.” Yep, that’s me. Completely graceful. Tumbling over popcorn buckets in the dark. Stumbling up stairs. Flailing my arms wildly. Graceful.

And speaking of falling back – everybody remember to set their clocks back tonight. Wasn’t that a great segue? :)