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2003-12-16 - 8:06 p.m.

no life

NYC Holiday Window It occurs to me that I have no life at present.

OK, so that's not technically true. What I mean by that phrase is that I have no significant, quality free time to myself to do all the things I want to.

By taking the new job, I had to cash out almost 3 weeks of vacation time. And most of every weekend has been spent taking too many forms of transportation down south to visit the nicely recuperating boy. Add my new job and its ramp-up extra time and effort (10-11 hour days mostly) into the mix (so fast on the heels of my whirlwind NYC trip), plus post-work social engagements, and you can see why I haven't vacumned the apartment in weeks and haven't had time to do any laundry. In fact, I hadn't been to a grocery store in about a month before I finally went on Saturday night.

I miss writing here. I miss watching movies. I miss having a clean apartment. But, I wouldn't go back to my old job for anything. Not even for an 8-hour work day... though if my old boss quits and they offer me her salary, I *might* do it for a few months, while I save up enough $$ to go travel for a year. Hehe.

Now, borrowed from someone else's journal, here are the IMDB's Top 100 movies, with all items in bold ones that I've seen:

    1. Godfather, The (1972)
    2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
    3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
    4. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
    5. Schindler's List (1993)
    6. Citizen Kane (1941)
    7. Casablanca (1942)
    8. Seven Samurai (1954)
    9. Star Wars (1977)
    10. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
    11. Memento (2000)
    12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
    13. Rear Window (1954)
    14. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
    15. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
    16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
    17. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
    18. Amelie (2001)
    19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
    20. North by Northwest (1959)
    21. Psycho (1960)
    22. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
    23. 12 Angry Men (1957)
    24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
    25. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
    26. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
    27. Goodfellas (1990)
    28. American Beauty (1999)
    29. Vertigo (1958)
    30. Pianist, The (2002)
    31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
    32. Apocalypse Now (1979)
    33. Some Like It Hot (1959)
    34. Matrix, The (1999)
    35. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    36. Taxi Driver (1976)
    37. Third Man, The (1949)
    38. Paths of Glory (1957)
    39. Fight Club (1999)
    40. Boot, Das (1981)
    41. L.A. Confidential (1997)
    42. Double Indemnity (1944)
    43. Chinatown (1974)
    44. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
    45. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
    46. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    47. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
    48. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) AKA - Spirited Away
    49. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    50. All About Eve (1950)
    51. M (1931)
    52. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
    53. Raging Bull (1980)
    54. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 55. Se7en (1995)
    56. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
    58. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    59. Vita e bella, La (1997) AKA: Life is Beautiful
    60. American History X (1998)
    61. Sting, The (1973)
    62. Touch of Evil (1958)
    63. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) 64. Alien (1979)
    65. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
    66. Rashomon (1950)
    67. Leon (1994)
    68. Annie Hall (1977)
    69. Great Escape, The (1963)
    70. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
    71. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
    72. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
    73. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
    74. Jaws (1975)
    75. Amadeus (1984)
    76. On the Waterfront (1954)
    77. Ran (1985)
    78. Braveheart (1995)
    79. High Noon (1952)
    80. Fargo (1996)
    81. Blade Runner (1982)
    82. Apartment, The (1960)
    83. Aliens (1986)
    84. Toy Story 2 (1999)
    85. Strangers on a Train (1951)
    86. Modern Times (1936)
    87. Shining, The (1980)
    88. Donnie Darko (2001)
    89. Duck Soup (1933)
    90. Princess Bride, The (1987)
    91. Lola rennt (Run Lola, Run) (1998)
    92. City Lights (1931)
    93. General, The (1927)
    94. Metropolis (1927)
    95. Searchers, The (1956)
    96. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
    97. Notorious (1946)
    98. Manhattan (1979)
    99. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
    100. Graduate, The (1967)

Clearly, I squandered my youth watching movies. Hell, I've seen quite a few of these films 2 or more times. I'm a cinejunkie. Of these, the one I have rewatched most recently is Donnie Darko. Amazingly, the boy had not seen it.

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