juthwara

It's been a very sleepy weekend. We spent Saturday afternoon wandering around Target pricing baby things, buying mulch and then laying said mulch in the garden (after the obligatory raking, weed-pulling and weedwhacking). This apparently tired me out a lot more than I thought it would, because after dinner with friends, I slept through 3/4 of Return of the Jedi. Since I can rarely nap, let alone nap sitting half upright with a crick in my neck, I was clearly tired indeed.

Then I slept about two hours past when I should have gotten up for church. We went to Indy anyway, as we had been planning to see Revenge of the Sith with friends down there.

I have to admit, Revenge didn't blow me away. I'm not exactly sure why - on paper, it should have completely wowed me. I think I just wasn't enough in the mood. And so tired that I nearly fell asleep during an action sequence. Not to mention a bit distracted by how completely ridiculous it was that a previously strong character like Amidala went completely to pieces and then died of a broken heart. A line from Anna Russell's summarization of Wagner's Ring Cycle kept going through my mind: "As you can see, love has certainly taken the ginger out of her." I think I need to see it again, preferably awake.

After I began to fall asleep on yet another friend's couch,