simmer down now

I'm hunkering down for winter. I can feel it in my bones. I want to rent DVDs and watch them in bed; go see movies in a quiet, dark place; eat grilled cheese sandwiches and ravioli soup. Isn't that what autumn is all about - gearing up for winter and, biologically speaking, hibernation?

Yesterday, I rented The Big Chill from On Demand. Afterwards, I started thinking about my circle of friends. The high school crew, the college crew, the post-college crew. It sucks that I break them into categories, but that's the way it goes. Sometimes I wish I could put them all into one ginormous pot and stir it together and make a big happy casserole. I'm naive like that, but I mask it well.

Speaking of sucking and masks and such, here are two films I want to go see soon: