I'm Still Dreaming

Happy new year to y'all. I haven't quite decided if it's been a good start to the year. I have yet to see my credit card bill.

I watched "An Inconvenient Truth" with my cousin during the holidays, which is a really fascinating film and I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it already. I'm so glad Al Gore lightened up. Who knew that he was such a great public speaker? And it completely renewed my conviction that we're all going to die. Not right now, but soon.

There were a couple of things in that film that struck me as sad (well, there were actually many things but these two struck the most). The part in the film where they recapped the 2000 US presidential election in a montage of images was pretty depressing, but there was one scene where you could see Al Gore's facial expression as he conceded defeat. My cousin said, "Somewhere out there, there is an alternate universe where he won." To which I replied, "I want to find it." Okay, so it may not have turned out that much better than it is now, but at this point, I think I'd settle for anything that's even a tiny bit better.

The other sad scene was the polar bear. I'm not going to ruin it for anyone. I just felt so badly for that polar bear.

I've heard more than one person say that they're really happy that it's been so warm and that there's no snow. It makes me want to cry when I hear that. Not that I'm a huge environmentalist (my cousin already puts me to shame). But honestly, I find that it's sort of narrow-minded to think, "Woo hoo, I don't have to shovel this year!" If you don't like the snow that much, why don't you move? Don't you see the bigger picture? Doesn't this weather give you some kind of indication that there's a problem here?

Oops, I'm getting emotional.

And oh yeah. You all know how "White Christmas" is one of my all-time favourites, right? It's a movie that I'll watch every time it's on TV. My first glance through the guide last week gave me the impression that not a single network was going to show it this year, which bummed me out. But at the last minute I found it...playing at midnight on Boxing Day. So sad.

"There's nothing like watching TV all night underground"