The View from 58-inches High

This week has been a total whirlwind so I’m just now sitting down to make up for a ton of missed blog posts from the week. Ideally these would all be posted while they are still relevant but I can’t blog while life is happening.

Last weekend was my “Rex Manning Day”; the paella festival!! The past couple of years I have organized a ride to ride out to the festival. With all the team drama this year, I opted not to do the ride. I was pretty torn about that decision at the time but I realized I had a much better time when I didn’t feel like I needed to “entertain” the people I convinced to attend. Amber and Audra came on their own but we still sat together. I made it clear to everybody my first priority was trying as many of the 24-paellas as possible. These ladies did a great job helping me get really close to trying all of them. After everything, I had a great time not having to entertain a bunch of people who could have cared less about paella.

The next day was equally busy with Bonnie’s baby shower in the afternoon and Ender’s game with Brian in the morning. On top of that, I woke up slightly hung-over, very dehydrated, and feeling like death. Ender’s game was better than I expected though it was tough to not think of all the things that I loved in the book that didn’t make it to the movie. My only real gripe was that Petra’s character was not as strong as in the book. She was sort of motherly and caring towards Ender in the movie, but in the book she’s just one of the guys. They also left out the part in the final battle where she breaks. I suppose I should read something into the fact that the woman was the one to break. The point was that Ender depended on her too much. It was sort of an analogy to Graff and Ender.