Instead of waiting a week, we went to see Farenheit 911 today. What a great movie. I'm leftist as is Michael Moore so I whole heartedly agreed with what he was implying (and often outrightly saying) in this film. I worry though, that instead of hitting it's target (those on the fence and those Right Wingers that need to face a few facts) it could end up preaching to it's choir. I hope I am wrong to worry this, but part of me has to sit back and wonder where this is going to land. There were a few parts that got me right in the heart, though. He has a very moving depiction of the morning of 9/11 that had my heart in my throat. There is some gruesome footage of the war in Iraq that made my stomach churn, and there is a "scene" where a Mother reads the last letter she received from her son before he was killed in Iraq (sorry, spoiler). That part....... For a second I thought I was going to have a panic attack right there in the theater. Her pain was so tangible and it reminded me of feelings and frustrations that were already too present today. Today is the six monthiversary of the day Abbott died. I can't even begin to comprehend (although I lived through them) that six months have passed since the accident. It's a weird daichotomy to feel like I just talked to him five minutes ago and yet feel like I haven't seen him in twelve lifetimes. I miss him so much, sometimes it just aches and it feels like my heart is breaking all over again. I can still feel him, it's like he's right next to me all the time making me feel slightly schizophrenic and slightly comforted but never entirely better or worse. It's fitting that I got to see Farenheit 911 today. Abbott loved Michael Moore and was very leftist in his politics as well. I have no doubt that were he still here, Abbott would have been first in line at the first showing of this film and then he would have tortured all the rest of us with "oooh it's good but I'm not going to tell you why"'s and bugged us to go see it. Then he would have left to go to China and sent back e-mails of "Yeah it rocks here, have you seen the movie yet?" Or maybe not. Abbott prided himself on not doing what people expected him to do. He was my best friend. I miss him. And in other news, I've started to add my old blog entries from Blog-City into my archives here. It is going to be a rather long process as changing the dates takes a year for each entry (it feels like), but I got January, February and half of March done. It's a little weird to go back and read just how bad my writing was five months ago. I'm not saying I'm exactly eloquent now, but I feel like I've come at least a couple of steps forward from where I started. And finally, tomorrow I start at my new/old job. It's new in that it's a new place. It's old in that it's basically the same thing I've been doing for years now. Books, and people. It's a good job though and way better than anything I could have hoped for. Plus this new place doesn't have a coffee shop so there is no way I'll get stuck in one for a very long time! Woohoo!