A Conversation with Elizabeth
2000
Re: What's Up?

From:          Elizabeth  
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Monday, February 14, 2000 9:36 AM
Subject:       Re: What's Up?
 
Happy Valentines' Day!!  The thing about the X-files though--you think something has been answered one way and then the answer changes later.  Also, I couldn't quite figure out what the experiments on his sister were.  Was there an alien component to that?  I finally decided to tape the second half of Madame Bovary and watch X-files and The Practice.  Both were pretty good I thought.  I read Madame Bovary at Univ. of Fl. and even after all these years it has stayed with me.  The PBS version was supposed to be pretty good. The movie "Homicide" was supposed to also be quite good, but I decided not to tape it as I've never been a real fan, watching only an occasional show. My videos are a mess.  Last night, even though I have stacks and stacks of tapes, I had a hard time finding a blank one.  I've vowed not to buy any more blank tapes because I have so much recorded already, it would take me a month of watching to catch up. Why exactly do you want to go to AOL, if they offer?  It seems you get to travel quite a bit with your present job. I THINK I would like that, but maybe not.  One thing I dislike about my present job is NEVER getting to go anywhere.  As an academic librarian there were always lectures and conferences.  Most were local, but at least it was getting out of being in the same building day after day.  I saw an advertisement for "power yoga."  You've been studying yoga for quite some time, haven't you.  When did you start?  I've been to classes on and off, and have several books, but I do it infrequently.  I really liked the yoga components in karate.  Well, I'm rambling because the day is off to a slow start.  Did I mention that law school tuition may be going up AGAIN for this summer.  I'm shaking my head over that.  This weekend I REALLY got to thinking about going to that place in Scotland I discovered on the internet.  Apparently there are quite a few hiking trails along the lochs, etc.  It just feels like what I'd like to do, although I've always thought that if I got a chance to go to Europe I'd do cultural things rather than geographic things--I mean museums and stuff.  Elizabeth

As many times in her emails that she mentioned recording some show or another, then her saying about having “stacks and stacks” of tapes, I had this vision of her in her tiny apartment, one chair with a TV on a table in front of it, and then everywhere you looked there were stacks of VCR tapes and books, on tables, on the floor, on overflowing shelves, stacked on the one other chair in the room leaving no room for a guest to sit. 

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