Monday, August 11, 2003
Is it physically possible to
die from allergies? If this evil heat and humidity don't leave soon I think it will be the end of me. I am convinced I didn't move far enough north. Next time I am moving to Greenland, dangit!!
We rented
Daredevil over the weekend and I must say I was drastically disappointed. I was expecting it to suck because everyone said it would but, it's the
way in which it sucked that got me. Daredevil is a great story. I actually like it better than Spiderman. But the movie version of Spiderman was done so much better because, in true Stan Lee fashion, they spent the first hour developing the characters. That has always been Stan's forte, strong, identifiable characters with real, everyday "stuff" that we can all say "been there, done that, bought the t-shirt and found holes in it". The problem with Daredevil the movie is that they spent maybe 15 minutes on character development, most of it being voiceover in flashback by Ben Affleck. Now that's fine for a sequel, where everyone is already invested in the characters and you can get straight to the plot line, but in the first one, where not everyone has read
Daredevil comics since they were a pre-pubescent, you really do need that time to "get into" the characters. Especially with such complex characters as these. John's theory is since they paid so much money for Ben Affleck they felt they needed to get him into the movie as soon as possible. Well, that's all well and good but if you're going to shell out that kind of dough on a "star", especially in this day and age, one would think you would want to make a good enough movie that you could get at least a couple of sequels out of it and get your money back. And speaking of Ben Affleck, I've never been a big fan. I don't know if I've even seen him in a whole movie, I certainly don't remember it if I did. (Was he in Armageddon?) But he did a pretty good job in this one. And
DANG does he have a cute smile. LOLOL
It turns out that Evan, the little kid at Ian's school that he liked to play with, isn't going to school anymore. I don't know if he's coming back or not. His mom's a teacher so she may keep him home during the summer.
But the good news is Ian has found another kid he likes to play with named Jacob. I have gotten a couple of reports from the teachers that he and Jacob have been playing together, which is
really cool. So being the determined mother I am, I asked Erica, the head of the school, when would be a good time to show up to meet Jacob's parents. She told me that they come in at different times during the day so there was no really good time but that I should try putting a note in his parent mailbox. Now for those of you that have been reading here for a while, you know what happened the last time I tried that. I got zero response. So when I was picking the kids up last week I lucked out and got there at the same time as Jacob's dad. So I battled through my introversy and introduced myself. I asked about play dates and that sort of thing and his dad said they didn't rule out the possiblity. He probably thought I was a complete nutcase and was glad to be away from me, but I just don't know what else to do. Ian needs one-on-one play experience in an environment where he feels comfortable and where some adult or older kid can model/coach positive play practices for him. There just aren't any therapeutic play groups up here in the boonies and we can't be taking time off of work to drive him into Portland. I'm probably going about this all wrong, but my social skills sometimes leave a little bit to be desired, too. LOLOL
Why can't anything ever be easy???
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