A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
Re: Back in Touch

From:          Elizabeth 
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Monday, May 24, 1999 10:01 AM
Subject:       Re: Back in Touch
 
I think you had a better weekend than I did.  I had planned to go on a bird walk at 8 a.m. on Sat. but was just too tired and exhausted, which then makes me depressed, because I don't get to go do the things I wanted.  I'm not clear what brought on the exhaustion, but it was pretty totalizing.  I literally crashed all weekend. I had been pushing my walking up just recently to 45 minutes instead of just 30, and that might have done it, in combination with an extremely busy work week and long hours at school. 
 
Rather than do nothing, I read an interesting paperback about two brothers and another man who discovered 3-4 million dollars in a crashed airplane.  I thought the novel was captivating because it showed how the "dreams" of the people involved came to revolve around what they could do with the money. 
 
They had decided to sit on the money for six months also, to see if any news about it showed up, so it was interesting to see how "the secret" kept spreading as they let other people know about their find, first wives, etc., then a friend or so.  I also cooked a lamb shoulder roast, which took three hours Friday night. It has been ages since I cooked a huge roast like that.  I vaguely recall I had a dream recently about you and Julie.  You were very excited because you had gotten back together full time.  It was a very brief part of a larger dream about other things, but there was that small segment about you.  I've heard that a theatre near here in Dothan is one of the few that has THX-EX (?) which is the format intended for the Star Wars film.  A resident had a ticket to go see Star Wars there and was telling me about it. Even our newest theatre here I think only has the THX from what he said.  He explained it all to me, about how that was the best way to see Star Wars. 
 
The Sunday papers were just glombed up with advertisements for Star Wars stuff, T shirts, toys, watches, action figures.  It really turned me off. 
 
I'll go eventually.  I may even drive one Saturday to that town nearby which has that special theatre, because they also have an art museum which sometimes has interesting exhibits.  I hope you don't have to drive to that court job if you don't want to, but it sounds interesting to me.  However, I imagine there are probably other interesting projects as well.  Yes, I did pass the course.  Thank God.  The worst part in my imagination (What's the worst that can happen?) was having to take the thing all over again.  He only failed two people, and fortunately I wasn't one of them.  The grades were still very, very low, but I think he curved more.  My grade was the pits, but it was a pass.  The bottom line is that's what counts.  I watched a little t.v. last night and saw several ads about upcoming theatre movies that sounded interesting--The Thirteenth Floor, which is supposed to be a virtual reality film, and also a new film with John Travolta, the title which I forget.  Well, work calls.  Elizabeth

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