Ode to Lord of the Rings
This week I have been quite ill. Seems I have a bit of a strep throat, though the tests are not yet back from the lab to confirm it. All the symptoms are here, of course, and the doctor was relatively convinced (high fever, white spots in the throat, swollen lymph nodes, abdominal pain, and of course, a very sore throat). It was all quite wonderful, really.
Cracked out of my mind, I’ve fallen quite horribly behind in school. While I tried to do some work each day in between shivering from a bad fever, I didn’t get all that much accomplished.
So, falling to the lurid temptation of illness, I set out to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in its full extended edition. Nearly 12 hours of it. One per day while I was too sick to do anything else. It was bliss. What a great piece of cinematography. If only there were more of that, and less Paris Hilton slime.
