It was supposed to be snowy/rainy today so I brought my awesome purple umbrella and wore my snow boots. Other than the few little drops that might have actually been from the trees over me when I got out of bus, I got nothin’. Nothing! It is beautiful and blue outside. At least the little moisture we had yesterday washed away all the inversion gunk and we can breath and see the sky again! Hard to believe that earlier this month northern Utah and Southern Idaho had the worst air quality in the entire nation. Crazy. They were telling little kids, the elderly, and anyone with any breathing issues to just stay home.
Still on Emma and LOTR basically. One thing I’d forgotten from Emma, and I think they changed a bit in the movie to make her more
likable was about Elton’s proposal. The silly thing was, Emma thought Elton was ridiculous to feel his station, which is above Harriet’s, should stand in the way of them being a couple. Who was he to look down on Harriet just because her parentage and connections were unknown? Then of course Emma is completely irritated by the fact that Elton thinks he can rise above his station to ask Emma to marry him! Of all the nerve! Oh, hypocrisy is absolutely one of the factors of every personality if you ask me, but how fun to read it so well preserved!
LOTR is wonderful. I really love how he’s taken this dramatic tale and filled it with such poetry and music, and so much love and humour. Of course the best of literature must have the same, but J.R.R. Tolkien has a magical way of putting things, no doubt about it. Frodo hasn’t even met Strider yet, but I’m already chapters in. I love reading about the Hobbits. I think he wished there was such a place and that he was in it. It’s like the jogging path in the little Wii universe. Jude and I are always wanting to move there!
Reading and everything else is much less still due to my shoulder/arm injury. I can’t stay in any position for more than a few minutes, and my left hand is still numb, so it’s just not very comfortable to read. I’m missing it badly. But I am feeling better and better, so hopefully my reading career is not over…
If there are any typos, forgive. It’s hard to type with 1.5 hands.