Closer

I am by no means well, at least not for any defin­i­tion of ‘well’ that excludes excru­ci­at­ing agony in the gums, but I am still fever-free and ton­sils are almost a normal colour. Back to the doctor tomor­row night for a check on these gums, but oth­er­wise I’m recom­men­cing my life damnit.

Thanks to those who res­cued me: sleazemon­key as always, though I’m wor­ried about you today, could­n’t raise you on the phone, kir­mish, thorfinn and Stephan for car trips to vari­ous doc­tors at dif­fer­ent times, thorfinn for more congee than one woman can pos­sibly eat, lord­storm for random visits and planned visits and gen­er­ally being won­der­ful, dai­syn­erd, nuwishas_tail and seedy_girl for being a voice on the end of a phone, green­wytch for natur­o­pathic advice, drjon, isisrose and oreth­ule and all you over­seas people for offers of com­pany or assist­ance even if the timing was wrong. Oh and Mum, of course, for phone calls and e‑mails and offers to fly inter­state if I still wasn’t well by this week­end. If I missed anyone, sorry.

So, work tomor­row on the new travel magazine. Two days late, which is a Bad Thing, given my repu­ta­tion for organ­isa­tion and a sign of how ser­i­ously sick I was. I’ve done all the prep and com­mis­sion­ing, art­icles are rolling in, and pro­duc­tion was sup­posed to start Monday. That means I had to phone and put three other staff on hold for two days while every­one waited for me, because this is the launch issue, so no-one knows each other and no one has work to go on with from last issue. It’s all a very inter­est­ing exper­i­ence and one I’m sure will end up as fodder for classes, so pay atten­tion, oh stu­dents of mine.

More import­antly, I have to scramble to see all the remain­ing Oscars nom­in­ees by the Big Night. So, I’m going to be seeing a lot of film soon. I’ll try to post the sched­ule here as I go… 

And the nom­in­ees are:

• HOTEL RWANDA (hasn’t star­ted yet) 
• FINDING NEVERLAND
• THE AVIATOR
• MILLION DOLLAR BABY 
• RAY
• SIDEWAYS (seen it) 
• COLLATERAL
• CLOSER
• BEING JULIA (hasn’t opened yet?) 
• MARIA FULL OF GRACE 
• VERA DRAKE
• ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (seen it) 
• KINSEY (seen it) 
• THE INCREDIBLES
• SHARK TALE
• SHREK 2
• LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (seen it) 
• THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 
• A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT 
• HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS 
• THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST 
• TROY (seen it) 
• HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (seen it) 
• I, ROBOT (seen it) 
• SPIDER-MAN 2 (seen it) 
• BEFORE SUNSET
• THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (seen it)

Note that this list does not include any of the sound cat­egor­ies, shorts cat­egor­ies, doc­u­ment­ary cat­egor­ies or the for­eign lan­guage cat­egor­ies (I nor­mally do try to see the for­eign lan­guage films but I don’t have time this time)(Oh and I have of course already seen the amaz­ingly fab­ulous Birth­day Boy and who needs to see the others, really?)(I find it a little sad that the only com­plete cat­egory I’ve already seen is the visual effects category).

Wanna come see a film with me? I was think­ing maybe Find­ing Nev­er­land tomor­row night…