We completed the Green Card application for my husband. It was a very thick and thorough stack of forms and documents and affidavits and certificates and photos. And nearly $1400 in cashier’s checks. We mailed it out on Oct 1st.
On Oct 13th we received confirmation letters from USCIS indicating that they had received our packet, cashed our checks, and the application was now being processed. I appreciated the acknowledgment and communication. What a relief to know it’s actually underway and moving forward.
Now we just wait for more news, for the call for the next step.
Oct 20, 05:46PM PDT | 0 comments
48. Ice Age – What a great, simple movie, with beautifully rendered glacial vistas, some realism, elegance, a swelling but not hyper-literal musical score.. and it was dotted with great throwbacks to the goofy Warner Brothers cartoons with Wile E. Coyote chasing after the unattainable and taking great plunges over cliffs and leaving coyote-shaped holes in the rockface. Yeah. I enjoyed it. I wept a little. It had good balance.
49. Ice Age 2 – NOOOOOOO!!! This was too much. Too many subplots. Too many ridiculous near-disasters. Is there really a cliff, a waterfall, a volcano, a cliff, a falling ice shelf, a melting ice sheet… at EVERY frickin’ turn?? Way too many ridiculous invented conflicts underscored by popcorn disaster music. Not enough death or realism. And too many new and obnoxious characters. Boooo.
50. Ice Age 3 – Very low marks for “going there” and including dinosaurs in the same era as the mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, and humans. Reasonable marks for articulating the surprise and incredulity of the mammals upon encountering aforementioned dinos (“I thought they were extinct!”), and for creating a parallel (but thermo-dynamically ridiculous) world for this to occur. Happy face for being slightly more focused than Ice Age 2, and for taking the poor Pleistocenic squirrel to even greater heights before ultimately dropping him.
Oct 20, 05:25PM PDT | 0 comments
46. Lars and the Real Girl
47. Zombieland—at the movie theater!
Oct 13, 06:38PM PDT | 2 comments
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