Endlessly She Said

Last night I was made to feel utterly helpless, and I really didn't like it. I think the feeling of being unable to make any change to a situation is one of the worst. You feel powerless, impotent. Sitting, watching as life unfolds before you, and having no control over the outcome. It sucks. Unfortunately there are some things in life that force you to be a passenger, or worse, an observer. Knowing what will happen, but being unable to influence the events, to change the course, to avoid the catastrophe. Just waiting.

Thankfully, though, there are many things in my life that I do have some capacity over. To lose that freedom of choice, to have your options continuously limited to one would make for a soul crushing existence.

Cheerful, huh?

Anyways, that was then, this is now. Today was a pretty fun day. We had Old MacDonald's Farm come and visit the centre. There was a calf, a piglet, a couple of lambs, some kids, chickens and ducks. It was fun. The carpark kind of smells like manure now though, so I'm hoping we get a bit of rain soon. The children really enjoyed having the animals at the centre. The youngest guys were having a great time with the animals while there were some older children with them, but once the bigger guys left, all the little kids started to back into one corner, intimidated by the animals. I think that I liked the pig the most. He was cool. He wasn't pink, more of a brown colour. He would run around and around the pen. He didn't squeal too often, but he was cool.

Over the weekend I watched a few movies. I saw Some Kind Of Monster which is the documentary about Metallica. It was interesting to see the different egos within the band, and also the changes in them as the film progressed. On the Sunday I watched Phar Lap which was a terrific movie about the iconic horse. I was hoping that there would be something about how he was poisoned by the Americans, but there was nothing about that. I guess it would have been too controversial, killing it's chance with the bigger cinema market. Or something. Maybe they just didn't want to taint his memory with what may have happened. Apparently farlap means lightning a language other than English.

The final movie I saw on the weekend was Pretty Woman. It was surprisingly enjoyable. I guess I didn't really know what it was all about before, but having watched it, I can say that I'm glad that I did. Julia Roberts wore some very 80's clothes. Some of them were revealing. I didn't mind.

Even though the weekend had ended, my movie viewing hadn't as I finally made it to the Blue Room to watch Factotum. I enjoyed it. I had a pad thai with my meal, I enjoyed that as well.

I am tired.