listening to paint peel.....

ok, so this morning was the second portion of a kidney disease training....led by an esteemed colleague who appeared to be billing by the hour rather by than the event.......by 11:00 this morning i had heard enough of....'any more questions...we have plenty of time.....?' and so i got up and left without my certificate of continuing education hours.......because i already have enough for this fiscal year (that began november 1).......and because i have already turned in my portfolio of 5 years of continuing education to the american dietetic association way ahead of the may 2006 deadline......not needing to stay....i left..........i will admit to a timetable of sorts.....i had at least 1 stop to buy a gift certificate in the u.k. area......and i needed to eat lunch....before a 12:10 pm matinee of...pride and prejudice at lexington green.......i ended up having a nice salad bar lunch at wild oats......several interesting salds with quinoa, and barley, and couscous, and curried tofu/spinach.......and arrived at the theatre across the parking lot at 12:00....only to find that p&p didn;t start til 12:25.....and so i sat in on the 1st 25 minutes of harry potter.......just til his name is spit out fo the goblet of fire.....and then rushed across the hall to see the opening credits of p&p.......and i almost laughed out loud......for the theatre was nearly full.....of women sitting alone......at least 27 women sitting alone.......scattered throughout the smallish venue......just think of all of their male significant others breathing a collective sigh of relief at not having to sit through this particular film......and that notion is a sad misjudgement......i will admit to said same sad misjudgement......or as miss elizabeth bennett said so concisely...'please do not remind me of what i said then...'.....this was a stellar piece of filmmaking......much more intimate and earthy than the others......dustier, more agrarian, more cluttered, more vulnerable....and though it was streamlined for characters.....the married mrs hurst and her drunken spouse are gone.....and neither sir william lucas, or his wife or charlotte's younger sister....the details in this film set it apart.....the country fashions of the sisters are ever so much more visibly 'homemade'......than in any film adaptation of austin's i have seen......i say this as someone who sews.....they went to lengths to show us the homemade aspect...as was the hair less coiffed and more like it would be if one dressed it oneself.......and the somewhat shabby state of a stone home that seen from afar looks quite impressive.......i especially appreciated the addition of animals to this version......a family (hunting) dog that is ever under foot, chickens and geese in the barnyard.....cows, and several memorable swine........if you have read any of the reviews...the exact angle of the swine shots was a major talk point.......and then there was the casting question.......i had my doubts that any could match austin's tale after the performance by colin firth or jennifer ehle......certainly not keira kneightly.....but i was wrong on that count....the producer must have seen her in pirates of the carribean and rightly deduced that she had a little of e. bennett's spark living in her......i was impressed....and the unknown actor who played darcy............my......he played the role with more earnest feeling than colin firth.......the only real disappointment i had was with dame judy dench as lady catherine.....she simply wasn't crone material....and crone is called for in that role..........ah well.....i am back home.....and thinking ahead to the dvd release.......