because july 25th in the states is not august 18th here...

since, clearly, i couldn't see the xfiles movie 'i want to believe' on friday night, as it is not out here until august 18th, i saw 'lust-caution' instead, which was a horrible decision on my part, but what can you do. at least the dinner beforehand was excellent because we were at rosebank. lust-caution is an award winner, so i thought it would be awesome. and it was! such 1940s class, such great cinematography and sparse, sharp screenwriting and beautiful costuming. it was great until the graphic, protracted rape scenes came along. don't take a date to it, whatever you do. it probably came out a while ago at home anyhow. ugh.

but back to the good stuff: "I was there because I knew, eventually, my heroes would get it on. And because I was totally enraptured by special agent Dana Scully."
-Rebecca Traister, writing at Salon about why she kept watching the show back in the day
we're all enraptured, definitely. ha, clyde bruckman even thought she was immortal! what young girl saw this show and did not want to grow up and be her?

in more relevant and scholarly news, i spent this morning slogging away at an IR/international law term paper, which is making me mentally twitchy in anticipation of law school. in a good way! it is nice to get a hint telling me that is the right direction, and being forced to do more than surface research / work for hours continuously for a class that is actually challenging...is a good hint.