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Finished reading Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream. I picked this up partly due to it going around on my reading list and partly due to my zero-religious-background fascination with religious life.

Short version reaction: we start with Coldstream literally escaping into the night, followed by 'You might be wondering how we got here. Ten years ago...' so you can probably guess you are in for Why Not To Be A Nun: The Memoir: The Musical, but amazingly, no, it is even wilder than that.

Long version reaction: ( No Really, Don't Be A Nun )

Recent, in film:

--Sunset Boulevard - what a beautifully shot movie in which everyone is complicit in a woman's mental breakdown. Hooray for Hollywood.

--Blade Runner - I took A to this because she hadn't seen it and was fascinated to hear her thoughts. It was only my second watch but apparently I had a lot more to say about it than after the first one. Notably, A was fascinated by all the worldbuilding that was left unexplained, and had absolutely zero of the 'oh, that's where that quote is from' moments that I expected.

In terms of the eternal question (Is Deckard a replicant?), A remains undecided. My friend D believes that both a) to even ask the question is missing the point and b) of course he's a replicant because that makes for a better story. Whereas I believe the exact opposite, that it's vital for viewers to ask the question but impossible not only to establish the answer but indeed for there even to be an answer.

I refuse to get obsessed with this movie because I have a plentiful supply of things I could get obsessed with already and also I'm pretty sure that the 'Blade Runner microfixation' fandom is full of assholes. But if any of y'all want to tell me your opinions on the eternal question, I am interested.

--The Warriors (1979) - damn, being in a gang does not look like any fun, except for the lesbian one, and even they looked kind of glum. Hard pass.

--Jurassic Park - I forgot how little Ian Malcolm actually does in this movie. He provides quips and allegedly knowledge for the first third, gets injured, and then sits around shirtless and pointless for the rest of it. I am told that many people had their sexual awakening to Jeff Goldblum in this movie. I hope you all have not stuck with 'shirtless and pointless' all your life.

Dinosaurs are cool, though.