coupla things

Shopping at Walgreens yesterdat for a "goodbye" card for a coworker, I came across some great categories of cards, in among "Graduation," "Father's Day," "Bat Mitzvah," etc. They were "Troubled Relationship" and "When We Said 'I do' We Meant It."

a) Those are hilarious.
b) If you're looking for a greeting card to say what you need to say in either of those situations, alls I gots to say is best of luck to you.

I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark at the Castro last night (the organist played the theme music!). If I were to write a paper about that movie, it'd definitely be about shadows, and I'd probably call on Jung even though I'm so not into him. There's some line by the French guy when he says that Indie is just a shadowy double of him. It got me thinking about where Indie's allegiances are, what his ideology is. There's totally a paper in there.

I also just finished Beloved. Turtle sex aside, what a book. I love how balanced it is between narrative and something like lyric, or fragment, something characteristically feminine. I'm glad I read it now because I feel like I'm in the right place in my reading tastes/trends to appreciate it. Onto Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping! Soon, Bleak House!