Continuing the Week Off

I had my mental list of things I wanted to do this week, but now half-way through, I find I haven't done as much as I wanted. In the grand scheme of things, I just wanted to take a break I think, and so I have. I've been working on my next Christmas card design, but I'm hitting an artistic block. I've been to the gym a couple of times and spent a lot of time raking leaves. Three times this week in fact. My maple is a wicked tree, waiting for all the leaves to be raked up before dropping the next load when I go into the house.

One of the more rare events is my willingly allowing Murphy out of the house. He's been a house cat since he was a kitten and I think he finds the outdoors fascinating. He's never spent a great deal of time outdoors except for a three-hour stint when he snuck out while I was taking down Christmas decorations. In playing with the leaves, he discovered that they were edible. Yeah, I can't wait to clean that up later.

I tried to give Maggie her turn in the leaves, but she wanted no part of the outdoors today.

Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory

Also Known as "Lycanthropus"
I love a cheesy horror flick. The local Showcase cinema was having a classic horror movie night tonight and I decided to at least go see at least one of them. So I ran out to catch Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory, a 1961 horror flick.

The story revolves around a reformatory for girls in some unknown country where a handsome new doctor has shown up to be the new science teacher. Upon his arrival, however, a gruesome murder at the hands of a monster occurs on the school grounds. One of the girls begins to investigate, trying to find out who is the killer. The movie is campy and is one of those flicks where it was dubbed from Italian. The dialogue was sometimes awkward, like it was translated via Google and the wording didn't quite match up. Instead of saying the girl was killed, the dialogue had her "assassinated." This was repeated several times. Overall, the movie was good for what it was. However, the movie going experience left something to be desired thanks to others in the theater.

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