Weekend recap

I got my hair cut on Friday after work @ the new Silk Cut that opened next to the Asian Food Market. I decided to get it done there b/c it's been a while since I've had a decent cut (I've been getting my hair cut at Supercuts lately) and for only $22, it seemed worth it. Anyway, it turned out to be a nice way to unwind after a long week @ work. I always like getting my hair washed and the guy was pretty diligent. He kept commenting on how healthy my hair was and ended up spending extra time w/me. At first I didn't know what he was doing but by the time I realized he was feathering my ends it was a little too late. It's okay though, I still like it. At least he didn't thin the bottom out so I wind up w/mushroom head the next day. That happened the last time I went to Silk Cut in Edison. Conclusion: I'll probably go back next time I need a haircut.

Shakespeare in Love came from Netflix, so we watched that Friday night. I don't know why all the girls were cooing over Joseph Fiennes back in '98 when the movie came out. He was a little too fruity for my tastes. But it was funny that they worked Ben Affleck into the movie b/c he & Gwyneth Paltrow were going out @ the time (right?).

Watched a better movie Saturday night. I was going to work on my essays. Really. But I'd heard good things about Downfall (Der Untergang) and I thought I'd see how much German I still remember. It was about Hitler's last 12 days in Berlin right before the Russians overran the city & ended the war. There was a lot of people shooting themselves in the head and passing around of Gift. Oh, and Hitler going off on everyone about betraying him & how the German ppl weren't fit to survive. Yeah, real uplifting stuff. Seriously though, it was pretty fascinating in a grotesque way. I don't agree w/the ppl who say that you shouldn't make movies about Hitler b/c we don't want to humanize him in any way, but I think this movie did risk making his associates who abandoned him in the last days, even though they were still war criminals, seem comparatively innocent next to the nutcases who stuck by him to the end. Take Frau Goebbels for instance. She brought her 6 kids to Hitler's bunker in Berlin to be w/her husband when everyone else was fleeing certain death @ the hands of the Russians. The day that Hitler died, she gave them "medicine" (sedative) and after they were asleep, administered cyanide to each & every one of them herself. She didn't want them to live b/c a "future without National Socialism is no future." A day later she had Joseph Goebbels shoot her right before he shot himself. The movie was all in German, and even though I had to rely on the subtitles, I found myself understanding a lot of things, w/a delay, of course.

I did buckle down and work on my essays today, and now I'm starting to get a headache from staring @ the screen all day. Have to get up a little earlier tomorrow for bagels, too, b/c I was late for the vanpool 2x last week and in the words of my vanpool mate Caren, "Nothing says 'I'm sorry' like bagels."