It's truly been a month since I posted.  You know, I keep saying I'm going to write in this thing more often, then I don't do it.  I should make it a new year's resolution or something.  I mean, those sometimes work--for instance, after just two short decades, I stopped biting my nails by having them done every three weeks.  Anyway, a few things that have happened:

I got a promotion, effective January 2.  I will be Assistant Director and Assistant Editor-in-Chief.  As far as I can tell, this means that I'll be doing what I was doing before, only I have to go to more meetings and my boss is more likely to say "well, that's YOUR job now."  The best part?  The first week and a half of the promotion, no work!  We get an extra week off because they're replacing the carpets on the first floor of the press building, and they have to do an asbestos abatement as a result.  So I have off from Christmas Day until January 11.  Pretty sweet.

Less than three months until the wedding!  Though I get stressed out about the planning from time to time, things are slipping into place.  I finally started the gift registry, the buffet menu is nearing completion, I've picked out a DJ, retromorphosis will be taking our photos, and the address list is almost finalized.  I'll post the wedding website link when it's ready.

Somewhere along the way, we lost our digital camera.  This sucks, because I've wanted to take photos lately.  Anyone have a recommendation for a reasonably priced camera?  I don't need frills, but I do need reliability.

We're just a week and a half away from going to see Spring Awakening again, this time at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center with my family.  Spring Awakening was the best entertainment I experienced this year (yes, better than Wall*E), so I'm delighted to be able to go see it again.

Oscar season has begun in earnest, which means a likely uptick in movie-related posts from me.  I try my hardest to post short reviews of the ones most likely to be in the hunt, but I'm not always good about it.  Anyway, I'll start what's sure to be a semi-regular series in the next few months right here, with my short review of Slumdog Millionaire.  First of all, I recently finished reading the book upon which it is VERY LOOSELY based, Q&A, so my impression of the movie is a bit clouded by that.  I thought the film was very good, even lovable at times for what it was, but the plot wasn't as good as the book; they took a lot of liberties, some of them unnecessary.  The acting was excellent--Dev Patel as the oldest version of the protagonist was a standout, and Irrfan Khan was there to lend a bit of Bollywood luster to the proceedings.   I wonder if they tried to get Sharukh Khan to play the game presenter--that would have been more verite, seeing as he hosts the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire--but the guy who did play him was good as well.  The movie was also beautifully shot, though I thought the saturated colors and you-are-there camera angles owed a lot to movies like the far superior City of God--another movie about slum life that is unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon.  I also thought it could have been more joyful.  There is something about the journey of the book's protagonist that was more magical than the movie's protagonist.  Anyway, I say go see it, especially if you don't get as much India in your movie diet as you should, but don't expect the sorts of wonders the reviewers are espousing.

I guess I should go; I am still at work and was just taking a break from year-end stuff.