In your job you really must be happy for everything to work properly for you. Otherwise the stress will eat away at your body and your soul. Now about movies and books - OMG, yes! There is no way I can watch a run-of-the-mill movie ever again! I tend to look in the used-DVD store for some very unusual stuff. And most of the movies I like tend to be about WRITERS! LOL! So some of my recent favorite discoveries have been "Adaptation"(Nicholas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper), "A Life Less Ordinary"(Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz) and "Bad Education"(Gael Garcia Bernal). And I think I mentioned to you that I just saw "Match Point" (Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Emily Mortimer, Scarlett Johansen). Gods, what a great pot-boiler of a film! I LOVED it!!! I also picked up "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" which has a very 'cute' Hugo Weaving as a drag queen entertainer! What a funny, funny movie!

As for books, the only ones that stimulate me nowadays are really off-beat stuff like "Oryx and Crake" (thanks for that rec), and non-fiction stuff like the books I've been perusing on the Celts, Druids and Romans.

BTW, how am I doing on the RPG? I'm right into it, but I'm trying to play my character like one who doesn't really know what's going on!