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I'm in an odd mood. An assortment of thoughts:

Family: I just called my dad. As it turned out, he was in the Chicago airport, en route to Glasgow. Apparently he's still potentially looking at a job in Scotland. One of the odd things about my family in the last three years has been the increasing disconnection, as my dad, brother and I all largely pursue our own adult lives. It's not that we don't love each other...but I don't even know what country my dad is in most weeks. I've been having a lot of dreams in my childhood home lately, probably because I know my dad is about to sell even the new house in San Diego and move to New Jersey. Or maybe Scotland. I don't like not having a family home, but there's not much I can do about it.

Reunion: I attended my 5-year college reunion this last weekend. ( More on Reunion )
But hey, my good friends from the class are all doing pretty darn well with their lives, and have changed in largely good if sometimes unexpected ways since graduation. We haven't taken over the world yet, but give us a few decades. Or, possibly, jendavis77, who couldn't make it, will beat us all to it by building a mad doomsday device. We missed those who couldn't be there, of course. And the end of the weekend, which we spent with friends celebrating their 10th reunion, was marred by one of them falling victim to a nasty stomach flu on our couch. But she seems to be recovering now.

( Thoughts on Prisoner of Azkaban )Overall, a great movie, with some distinct pacing problems, and a continued tendency to leave me distanced rather than caught up in the action. (This may be partially because I know the plot so well - I experienced the same thing with certain moments in TTT and ROTK.)