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poopy rain. it's been raining steadily for something like 8 weeks. longer? honestly. there hasn't been a 24-hour stretch in that time without at least some rainfall. i knew was i get getting into, moving to the pacific northwest 6.5 years ago. i spent a year in ireland in college and adored the weather. usually i love it here as well but this is getting ridiculous. oh, and that's my house. the front of it anyway.
it's a good house except the front door (open in the picture) is swollen with the moisture and thus a total bitch to open and close. it's open so i can get back inside without bursting with expletives. stupid wooden doors. oh it makes me mad. we need to get a new door. that will be an ordeal to be sure. let's talk about that later.
kara and i watched the movie on a&e last evening about flight 93, the 9/11 flight with the passengers who fought the terrorists. i was totally tense throughout the movie, sweaty palmed. i shouldn't even try talking about it because words cannot impart the fear. they only minimize it, and that's not something i want to do.
so i'll shut up.
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ray is totally obsessed with 9/11. (don't get me started.) he tivo'd that movie... are you saying i should or shouldn't watch it? my original thought was "no" -- i really don't like thinking about 9/11 at all. close my eyes and pretend it didn't happen.
i wouldn't say i'm obsessed but it's certainly changed the way i think about, well, death. i realized recently i probably wouldn't have written "nocturnal dyspnea" if it hadn't been for 9/11 - there are a lot of scenes in a hospital morgue in that story.
i think it's worth watching. it's tempting to pretend it didn't happen; it's easier to pretend it didn't happen. i worried as i was watching "flight 93" about the families of those on the plane and how they felt about the film ... it's definitely difficult to watch. it was difficult for me to watch.
it's still hard to wrap my mind around. to quote the wallace shawn character in "the princess bride": "inconceivable!"
let me know if you watch it!
Lex,
George Bush would prefer you not watch that movie and in fact forget 9/11 even happened....
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