The Man, The Myth, The Legend…
As time progresses, methinks I’ll be migrating my blog, equus_sb.livejournal.com, to this site, and will allow my blog to serve as history in the appropriate manner that it should. Of course, I will migrate all my entries over here, but that will take some time.
I look forward to sharing parts of my life and world view with you here, on this great journey.
the best way I know how.
I just handed $15 over to a friend who is donating the money tonight to his friend. You see, his friend happens to be none other than Raymond Clamens. Mr. Clamens is a Supply Technician here at the University. He also happens to be the recently-widowed husband of Staff Sgt. Lillian Clamens.
Sgt. Clamens was killed in a rocket attack in Baghdad on October 10, two days before she was to deploy for home. She leaves behind three children: Ayinde Williams, 14; Lana Clamens, 8; and Victoria Clamens, 7.
I don't agree with the war. There is no valid reason for us to have been there in the first place. However, when it comes to supporting one of “the family,” I will do what I can.
I've had the experience working on the Host Committee for the 2008 Annual Inter-American Development Bank meeting in Miami. It is being held in April 2008 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
I got the opportunity to work with individuals who really know what they're doing, in terms of bringing in a network to support about 350 corporate workers while they're stationed here in Miami making loans to countries, most of which are in the Latin American and Caribbean areas. I also got to see an impressive network set-up at the Miami Beach Convention Center, where they set up and break down networks for vendors for every show.
Probably the most lasting experience from this will be watching the byplay between someone from the county aviation authority try to end-run around many of the requests put in place by the IDB in order to save money.
Every other week I get stuck in this meeting… I have to be here because I write down the action items for everyone. It's about 20 people. Boring. Blah.
So I try to get a lot done.
Today I'm getting a lot of typing done into my blog. The blog I've ignored for a very long time.
I ran into Serena Cruz today. Serena was instrumental in helping me become acquainted to graduate studies. I miss the old gang from my early grad school days. Ah, the vagaries of changing programs mid-stream.
I get to go to the oral surgeon today. Supposedly, I'm receiving a consultation for five extractions, and preparation for two implants. Wheeee…
Anyhow, that's my mundane life at the moment.
The weekend was relaxing.
Went out with
Sunday, we went out for breakfast, and then I had to come to the office to do some research for classes that I'm taking and for a book chapter that I'm writing. After I got that done, we went out again and headed to Lincoln Road over on Miami Beach. Tracy spotted “Española Way,” and we took a detour down to that area. Then we came home, and had a picnic dinner on the floor while we watched “Cars”.
All in all, it was a great time…
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To turn a phrase from Kit Ramsey, one of Eddie Murphy's characters in Steve Martin's “Bowfinger”: “We've been watching films, not movies, lately.”
This week, we watched two interesting films: “The Good Shepherd” and “Cinema Paradiso”.
It took me a good 12-14 hours, eight of them sleep, to get past my disgust for the loss of life amongst some of the spies in “The Good Shepherd” to appreciate the acting of Matt Damon, in this Film Noir directed by Robert de Niro. I really did not like much of what the characters did in the film, but the acting that went into it was tremendous. For Matt Damon to be able to play his role as Edward Wilson, as straight as he did, must have been extremely difficult. The man shows zero emotion throughout the whole movie, except in a couple of fleeting instances, one being where he falls in love with Laura (played by Tammy Blanchard), the other being where he learns he was being taken advantage of by Hanna Schiller (played by Martina Gedeck), and realized he'd have to order her death.
Cinema Paradiso is a different story… obviously… but no less bittersweet. Put succinctly, it's a story of having to trade one's dreams of love for dreams of fame. Quite easy to see why this one won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language film in 1990.
No, I'm not well. I'm still trying to recover from a cold that turned into pneumonia. Since I'm no longer running a fever, the docs office says that I don't need to go to the hospital, but I do need a follow-up chest x-ray in two weeks. No big deal.
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