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[changeyourstars8]

This is a persistent cold. I have now nicknamed my office trash can "Mt. Kleenex".

I called the donut shop this morning to see if I needed to come in to work, and I guess I really sounded crappy because I got an immediate, "No, stay home." Time to go the orange juice and pill-popping route, clearly.

Other forms of therapy include sitting here and writing (of course) and reading The Chronicles of Narnia. I got the entire series for Christmas, and I'm really enjoying it so far . . . when I was little, I only read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, and that took me a long time to get through because when Aslan was killed I got so mad I shut the book and didn't pick it up again for over a month. lol (I think I was about seven or so, and had absolutely no clue about the Biblical parallels)

The books have such an different tone to them-- very laid back and conversational. After having it drummed into my head in various writing classes to never use 'you' and 'we' in a book, it's interesting to see them used so much here, along with the constant side notes in parentheses to the reader.

On movie news, if Brokeback Mountain is still playing in Wichita next Monday, my husband and friend I (and possibly my mother) will be making a pilgrimage to see it. Yay.

And has anyone heard anything about that new movie End of the Spear? I want to see that.

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[finniscs.livejournal.com]

yeah! Ive heard some stuff about it. Actually, I heard an interview on the radio with (if Im remembering this right, I was in the car and it was about a month ago and at that point I hadnt heard about the movie) the wife of one of the guys who was killed by the spear.

she was talking about the tribe and how revenge-oriented they were and they were killing themselves off. and even though they killed her husband she went there and lived among them as a missionary. It was interesting. I want to see it.

and which narnia book are you on, or which ones have you read? when I was a kid my absolute favorite of them all was Horse and His Boy, followed by Silver Chair. (I think I was in love with prince Rilian. I remember spending hours trying to draw pictures of him...) After having reread them to the kids I really like Magicians Nephew.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I've read The Magician's Nephew, and most of Wardrobe.

And I'd never heard about the incident before I read a story about End of the Spear, but now I really want to see the movie and learn more about them (I think the son of one of the missionaries wrote a book about it which is what they based the movie on), because the reactions of the missionaries' families just amaze me.

[jadelynx.livejournal.com]

One of the guys at our church loved End of the Spear. He said it was amazing. My brother didn't like it at all.

One of the things that is facinating to me and I don't think they touch on it in the movie (though I could be wrong)... The children of one of the men killed spent a great deal of time with the tribe and the daughter was baptised among them, and the three men that baptised her were among the men that killed her father. Talk about courage and complete faith in God, wow.

On the sick topic... I love to take a soak in a hot bath with Johnson's Soothing Vapor baby bath ( http://www.johnsonsbaby.com/products/bath/soothing-vapor-bath ). It sounds strange to use a baby bath, but it releases really nice nose clearing vapors and doesn't leave you smelling horrible and it makes you all soft.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Thanks; might very well try that!

and the three men that baptised her were among the men that killed her father

Dang. That little detail I hadn't heard. I know that the same actor plays one of the missionaries who got killed and then his child years later, so maybe the movie does touch on some of that. Dunno.