shipperx | Not Very Productive Weekend

Well, I tried to be productive, but I never seem to accomplish much on the weekends. Mom still drags me out early to shop for furniture (we still only have her house 2/3rds furnished) and Sis wanted me to help arrange furniture at her new house (while drawing up plans for the house she wants to build. Sigh... I love my sister dearly, but she's gone absolutely insane. And if she thinks I can take that sketch and turn it into a houseplan that actually works and REALLY keep it under 3,000 square feet, she's nuttier than I thought.). And, can I whine? I don't want to draw this plan right now. I mean, I am the architect who urged her to hire another architect for a reason (I don't envy whoever is going to have to design her 'dream house,' because I know from long experience that there's no such thing as the perfect house. I also know that what she wants and what's in her budget don't resemble one another. Of course, no one ever believes their sister when they tell them these things, so I want her to hire a stranger so that I'm not responsible for bringing her back to the real world) Besides, I'm already having to work long hours at work. We have a huge, huge ass school that has to make it out of the office in a few weeks, I'm already working until 7:30pm every night before going home, and I really don't want to go home and do yet more architectural drawing. Sigh.

Anyway, I'm going to procrastinate on this whole "dream house" issue. She hasn't even straightened the mess in the house they purchased as a "transition house." I think she's sort of rushing designing the "dream house." Also.... I simply don't have the energy.

...Which is why yesterday I never accomplished a thing fanfic-wise. I tried, but I just don't have the energy. I ended up watching Breakfast at Tiffany's. I had never actually watched the movie. I've seen the famous scenes but never the entire movie. Other than stating the obvious -- that Audrey Hepburn was an incredibly beautiful and stylish woman -- I'm going to admit that until I watched yesterday , though I had known

that Hepburn's character was a hooker, I had never figured out that George Peppard's character was a gigilo. Somehow in just watching the famous scenes, that had never been clear. Of course, with the movie having been filmed when it did, I think there was a lot of glossing over these little details. They never make clear that she's a call girl either (though it's entirely obvious from the action). I just had never seen the first half of the movie where it made clear that he was a 'kept man' doing basically the same thing himself. (Oh, and I'm willing to bet that in Capote's book if the character of Irving exists, he's a transvestite instead of a woman traipsing around with the name Irving.)

And, late yesterday afternoon I watched "Secret Window" on FX.

I think I figured out relatively early that odds were very high that Johnny Depp's character was insane and actually the killer himself. I mean, it's Johnny Depp. He isn't going to play any perfectly straight character ,and playing an alcoholic probably just wasn't enough for him. He would want to play batshit crazy. I was somewhat surprised though that, in the end. he had killed most everyone and got away with it.

Finally, last night's Deadwood

Was a bit of a bore, I thought. It seemed like most of the episode was simply waiting around for Hearst's riders to show up, and Wyatt Earp really wasn't as interesting as I had thought he would be. Hopefully, next week will be more exciting.