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Yesterday I picked Beech up at school and took him to McDonald's for lunch. We then went to his house and I helped him with a couple of pages of his homework, after which I watched him play Mario Cars. When Vanessa got home with Annie, I went to Little House (the senior center at Nealon Park) and had my taxes done. It is good to get them out of the way, and I should get my refunds in a few weeks.

In the evening I watched a DVD of the movie An Angel at My Table. It is another movie directed by Jane Campion. It is a biopic based on the autobiography of Janet Frame, a famous New Zealand author and poet that I had never heard of. She was a brilliant writer, but because she was such a shy and insecure person she had a difficult and troubled life, but she hung in there and got a lot published. I have a lot of respect for the movie, but it was somewhat painful to watch, so I give it 3.5 stars.