the diamond in the window

i read it when i was, oh, 9. 10, maybe. it's ingrained on my soul. and it's the perfect movie - adventure, thriller, mystery, love, fantasy...okay. no angst. but, i'm telling you, it's a movie worth making. tom hanks would love this to be a movie. i just know he would.

after my third purchase of this book, i emailed toni morrison, asking her to submit the author, jane langton, as a nobel candidate. i also asked ms morrison to tell oprah that this book should be a movie. good lord, that must have been ten some years ago. then i saw 'bend it like beckham' and, you guessed it, i sent the writer/director, gurinder chadha, a request to do this movie. not sure, but i think i also sent a request to mira nair. read the book and you'll learn why i did that. or not. read the book.

if you, dear blog reader, can produce this movie, then the hook is as follows: ~the dream is the reality.~ animation until the end, when... read the book! from the very beginning, all animation must be illustrated as in the original book (erik blegvad). maybe with just a touch of color and shadow. to feel like you're watching the book come to life, but still two-dimensional. then, when edward and eleanor fall asleep - boom! - everything is all twinkly and three-dimensional. sorta like pixar. maybe real with a touch of sparkle, even. oh! and the time frame is mid-summer through autumn for the best fall foliage, then into early winter for a great 'christmas' movie. in concord, of course!

and you need to choose actors/kids that know fear and can sweat after hard work. you know. like we saw in 'stand by me'. might be hard to find skinny red-headed, freckle-faced kids, but they're out there.

and i want to be in the first test screening audience.

class assignment - careers

hah! i can only thank myself for where i am today, career-wise. and where i am is about two steps from the bottom rung. coulda-shoulda-woulda. fml.

not exactly sure where i'll end up, but i'm currently working on an associate degree in healthcare information.

taking.
for.
ever.

once that's done, i'll most likely be bumming it until retirement. literally. keying in codes for medical billing. hopefully, from home. sounds ideal, no? my goal is to work in the arena of patient privacy. exactly.

in a previous chapter of fml, i attempted a career in textiles. initially, i was hoping to work with top designers. then i became interested in the environmental side of that business (smelly, that) and moved on to textile chemistry. worked for a while at brittany dye hoping to finish that degree. biggest turn-off of my life. next!

as noted in my profile, i work as a clerk at st. luke's hospital. once my six-month probationary period ended, i think i've applied for a different job every four months. seven year anniversary as a clerk this november.

ftw, i'm currently waiting on a reply for a position as a pc tech. this would require travel to all southcoast-affiiliated doctors' offices to set up a pc system, install some software, test the system, et c. and any time someone has a problem, they call me. easy peasy. i do enjoy helping people. and solving problems. would definitely be a feel-good job.

oh, yeah. did a six-year stint in the air force. telecommunications for the first half. electronic equipment repair for the second half. guess i'd still be there if i hadn't...

another time.
maybe.
maybe not.