Message 688

Yesterday I started working on my memoirs again for the first time in weeks, but my computer monitor went out (even though it is a CRT), so I had to replace it with the other CRT monitor that Josh gave me from his work. While I was at it I tried to set up Skype for which Bill gave the camera to me when they were all here recently. The camera that Bill gave me and the microphone that Jason gave me all work fine, but no one was home in Houston when I tried to test the system out. Instead of returning to my memoirs (I am in Texas now in the summer between college and graduate school), I read more than half of the book Liz gave me titled My Stroke of Insight.

In the evening I also watched a DVD of the movie Yes. It starred Joan Allen, who is a favorite of mine, but it was a strange movie with all the dialog in poetry. It was like watching a modern attempt to write like Shakespear. In addition to dealing with interpersonal relations, class and religious differences, England, Ireland, America, and Lebanon, it also tried to show how the conflict between the West and the Muslin world can be resolved by love. It was somewhat interesting because it was so different, but it was pretty boring for the most part, so I give it only 2.8 stars.