A Conversation with Elizabeth
1998
X-Files

From:          Elizabeth  
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Monday, November 9, 1998 12:37 PM
Subject:       X-Files
 
I hope that despite the turmoil in your household, that is if Julie went through with her plans, that you were able to either watch or tape the X-files.  It wasn't an outstanding episode, but I'm glad the new season has started. You may have heard that the show is now being done in Calif, not Canada, which gives it a "brighter" look. I really watch very little t.v., and I sort of missed the X-files during the summer. My t.v. watching is down to E.R., The Practice, and the X-files, but on Friday nights I watch ALL the news shows straight through (CBS, Alabama Reports, Lehr Newshour--oh I forgot I've been watching the Millenium since the new season--then Washington Week in Review).  T.V. Guide advertised a web site voting, where you can vote on your favorite episodes of the X-files. On Thanksgiving Day there is supposed to be a showing of the "12 Best Episodes" in part based on the votes. 
 
My weekend, was totally writing a law school paper.  It is not due until Nov. 25th before Thanksgiving, but I "pretended" it was due this Monday, so I would be motivated to just get it done.  I worked all day Saturday and Sunday, but I did walk, and do a couple of loads of wash.  My "reward" was watching the X-files, then The Practice.
 
I thought about you when I stopped working on my paper, when I took my walks, etc.  I think at some level I don't like the fact that much of life is "unpredictable," that things can happen about which we don't have any control.  Sometimes relationships are that way, even though we have a part in them, we can't, at some level, "control" them.  It bothered me about my knee recently, that despite losing weight, taking megavitamins, and walking very regularly, nevertheless my knee "flared up."  I realized that I may not be able to control that, and will have to live with the unpredictability. 
 
Oh, I forgot--part of the plot of X-files involved "dormant DNA."  That was a big theme in the recent Sawyer book I read, called Frameshift.  The character studied DNA, and in another parallel to the X-files, his wife could mind-read--which was due to an activation of part of her DNA which in most humans isn't active.  I am suspecting strongly that the X-files got a little of its plot development from the Sawyer book. 
 
Well, back to work.  Elizabeth
 

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