broken bed

Or rather, the bed frame is broken. It's been a long time coming, with some evidently poor temporary solutions like just putting a book under the broken half frame for 6 months so as to muffle the vigorous clanking sounds it would make when shaken about, but we are only now getting around to trying to rehab beddinge. It's a rather enormous pain, not to have a bed or a couch. After finding a machinist to push the screw through each of the pieces of the frames (to whom I gave an inordinately long and incomprehensible description of the problem), and trekking over to Ikea for new screws, beddinge is good as new. I think. Both Michael and I declared that this was the last time we would be Ikea customers as their furniture is pretty shoddy stuff, but the catalog came today, and I can't help but think that a few of those products will be helpful around the house--I'm a bad boycotter--always giving in to those consumerist desires for familiarity, even if it has only made me familiar with trash so far.

THE LISTS:

to do work: Make new CR doc for Cham. Reread GCI for new CR doc. Finish day 2 gwc handouts. Read a ton. Comment h's doc. Take notes and copy Jones and Caribe 2000.
done! Made close reading docs for GCI and Cham. Made handouts. Took notes on Jones and Caribe 2000. Peer edited h's doc. Read Boym.

to do life: Pay down debt (currently $1,031.09). Procure dog. Send siff letter. Call kombucha makers re bottle recyclying. Read Theri's paper. Fix beddinge with new screw. Purchase external hard drive to back up my computer files.
done! Did the bills. Fixed beddinge. Bought hard drive--now, must transfer files. Called kombucha makers and they don't take bottles back, so I recycled them the normal, inefficient way (glass is very energy consuming to recycle, don'tchaknow).

to do blitz: sarah, marilyn, giulia, irmary, mariana, dar, nv, sf, marzena, thérèse, hen.
done! ek

Netflixed
The Queen
Is it possible that I really can't be engrossed in movies where I don't understand or connect with the culture? I really do not want that to be the case, but first Cars, which didn't really interest me that much, and now the queen, where really, the question of British modernization and the monarchy strikes me as faintly ridiculous. Moreover, I don't see a character as so restrained as to be almost a cipher to be all that priaseworthy.

Inch'Allah Dimanche. Yamina Benguigui makes some interesting choices in this movie on family reunificaton and immigration in France: there are some absurdist sequences that work really well, and very saturated color, but then again, the protagonist has many 5 lines of dialogue in the whole movie--which does make it kind of hard to connect or to understand why so many of her new neighbors feel compelled to help her.