Yay! Friday!!

Friday is here! Yay!!! Tomorrow I can sleep in, which I've been dying to do all week. (Now there's a sentence most people would never expect me to say).

Though Friday is usually when people end their week on a lark and a drink, my Fridays are actually quite difficult. Not only do I have to meet my trainer on Friday mornings (which I need to depart for the gym in about 20 minutes) and get my arse kicked for an hour, but I end my day with dance class which is actually a more intense hour because we only get about 3 45-second breaks in that hour. The upshot is my friends and I go to a bar or restaurant afterwards so it doesn't feel quite so pathetic of a Friday night but by then I'm so totally ready to go home and collapse. At least the work day tends to be more quiet. We're having an international food day at work. I've done sod all for it because some batshit friend of mine signed me up for "Clean Up Crew" on the Asian team. I intend to go to Barnes & Noble at lunch and buy three books I've been wanting to read on Rwandan genocide instead.

In college (in my intellectual years), I was fascinated and compelled to study the holocaust more than any other event in history. This actually started prior to my college years - started around 5th grade when I first read The Upstairs Room. That eventually migrated to The Diary of Ann Frank and multiple other books including the Rise & Fall of The Third Reich and so on and so forth. In fact, the only museum I've ever contributed a rather large sum of money to is the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. - which is frankly the best museum in the world in my opinion. I can imagine the only thing more moving would be Auschwitz itself. But anyway, I've had a long standing interest in the social, personal and political impact of genocide - which explains why I'm such a cheerful adult today. But, I've always read articles and columns about Rwanda but I am even more interested now after seeing Hotel Rwanda and have a list of books to read. Not only personal Schindler-esque accounts, but there are two books focused on the victims accounts and the killers accounts. So, that's my reading list for this month.

Abrupt to that, I'm also very excited about my TiVo options. DirectTv has a new PPV channels that show older movies for $1.99. I'm recording one of my favorite movies of all time, Three Kings and then another movie I've been wanting to see for quite sometime, The Matador.

Hoping to make it to the beach too, but who knows.

Movie quote from Three Kings:

Bush told the people to rise up against Saddam. They thought they'd have our support. They don't. Now they're getting slaughtered.