I have a feeling today is going to be a near-perfect day. My bosses are both on vacation (along with all of the student body and most of the U of A staff), so I can have hours of relatively uninterupted time to work on scripts and other projects. I got here early today, so I’ve already got my email and to do list tasks out of the way before the day officially starts. This is great. It’s silent here. The parking lots are almost empty. Fayetteville becomes a ghost town when the students go away.
So I’m going to work on my big list of things to do and I hope to cross all of them off before the day is over. In conditions like these, it can be done.
Movie update: I saw Almost Famous and Wonder Boys this past weekend. Both were very good. I also saw (for the first time ever, oddly enough) La Femme Nikita which was okay (I’m not a big Luc Besson fan. He’s a little melodramatic for my tastes). I had seen the American reworking of it, Point of No Return, several years ago and everyone had told me what a pale imitation it is of the original. But that really wasn’t my experience of it. The remake suffers from many of the same problems as the original, though I can’t remember it in enough detail to give you a point-by-point explanation of why I think that’s true (not that anyone would–watch them both and draw your own conclusions).