Trabajo & Cinema Paradiso

Trabajo & Cinema Paradiso
Current mood: tired

More working, working, working...lots of work over W.E.D - World Environment Day this week...it was crazy/mad busy but I like the msg. of getting people to respect the environment more this week. Recycle, reuse, rethink about how to use energy. I saw an ad out that I did some graphics on with my co-worker ...full page, too. I was pretty proud of that.

Then I worked at the Randall Museum yesterday, lots of running around with the kindergartners & grade school children...it was "Sun & Wind Day" yesterday & there was sure plenty of "sun" & "wind" around, the weather was gorgeous & up there ontop of the hills that beatiful morning & afternoon, the wind was picking up enough where it was turning a new fangled windmill next to me & it was generating some energy inside the building - pretty cool, huh?...it was a nice event again for the lil' ones & their parents, there was an earthquake exhibit, an exhibit of birds that are specific & indigeneous to the neighborhood area of Diamond Heights/ Castro Valley...I was lookin' at the birds & I saw a hawk looking down on me ;) It took me aback at first but then b/c he was so tame, I calmed down. Pretty cool...anyway, during the day, I was helping the children make sun visors helping them color; I liked the fact that the girls seemed to color coordinate their visors with their outfits, cracked me up when they would...it was such a "chill" day, with a calypso band, the kids doing their various arts & crafts...the just the general good vibe running around made my "corazon" content...

Speaking of making one's corazon content ...I got to see my 1st outdoor movie in San Francisco last night...it was pretty amazing. I was really beside myself. It was at Washington Square in North Beach...we ate at a really, good reasonably priced restaurant nearby called Panta Rei...if you ever go, try the mussels in their homemade tomato sauce...pretty superb. We had a nice pinot grigio with it too, the lightness of it set off the seafood nicely. I also had some crab/ shrimp cannelloni & the 3 different cheeses on it were burnt just right...love that baked cheese over noodle thing going on...

Anyway, on to the specifics, "Cinema Paradiso" was sooooo goood, I mean after all these years, it's still sooooooo good... it's one of my favorite movies of all time & it was so special to catch it again. Outdoors made it extra, extra special; my 5 gal friends were with me & then my good friend that just got married in Saratoga came with one of her husband's best men/ best friends, then their other guy friend - so it was a fun group...anyway, I had forgotten about the many funny, heartwarming (yes, I mean it when I say that it IS "heartwarming" & I'm being sincere about that) scenes in the movie...the child star in that movie, is just adorable, he breaks my heart every time I see it...he is like what 7 years old there but acts like he's 37? Baha! Anyway, just pretty superb movie making...also, Marco Leonardi is in that movie & that makes any movie good! Do you remember him in "Like Water for Chocolate"? Well, he's in this one & it was probably what made him pretty famous & a star globally; the kissing scene he has in the rain with his "crush", Elena, just pretty much moves me everytime; like for that millisecond your heart does kinda' skip 'dat proverbially beat ;)...his recent movie was in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico", he played one of the henchmen that ran around with Enrique Iglesias & Antonio Banderas...anyway, I forgot about all the close-up shots of his great face...just sugar, sugar, honey, honey, candy boy face...that's all I can say...baha ;)

Also, I worked again today for W.E.D. at Fort Mason at the booth...it was an interesting crowd...I was commenting to my colleagues that there were a lot of people that reminded me of my mom's & lola's neighbors in Berkeley & Albany where they live...just very, caftan wearing, organic food lovin', & birkenstock/ teva sandals wearin' crowd...ha! But, a good crowd, I answered most of their questions well...there was an art exhibit there & one big one was sort of a makeshift planeterium where you would lie on the ground & look up at scenes of the rain forest while it was day, noon & night...it would show it raining, or monkeys walking across branches or then it would then change to a serene, beautiful desert scene...I felt like it calmed me down; made me feel a bit more relaxed which was a good "thang'"...

Anyway, it was a gorgeous weekend, the weather just cooperated beautifully...I am praying, praying, praying for just an uneventful weekend again at work & that it doesn't get too manic/ hectic ...at least some rest for this weary one sitting here typin' away at the laptop...

Lluego, lluego, lluego...

Currently listening: Chariot By Gavin DeGraw Release date: By 22 July, 2003