What do those two have in common? Well, only that one gave me more time to think about the other. I had some bad electronic juju happening with my main development machine at work. If there is an error to be had in Win2k, I had it–including a “catastrophic error.”


After 3 hours of trying to recover the 1 measly folder on one of my partitions that I hadn’t backed up on a network drive, I finally got somebody from desktop support to look at it. After about 3 more hours of trying to convince the desktop support person that I have a hardware problem, and three attempts at reimaging before the desktop support person realized that I had a hardware problem, and locating and swapping RAM, and installing WinXP, and having it corrupt my boot file so that I get nothing but a nice message saying that it can’t boot because my boot file is corrupted, and trying to get ahold of said desktop support person so I can convince them to just give me a new machine so this can be troubleshot on their time and not my time but only getting voicemail, I went home. Lots of really sarcastic things were thought today by myself. Hopefully things will go better tomorrow.

In the middle of my waiting time, I did get to spend some time thinking of my anniversary. You see, it has been seven years since I watched my first Ewan McGregor movie. It was the very end of 1996 while grading finals when David C or Jason E–I don’t remember which–mentioned this movie that he thought I would like called Shallow Grave. I filed it in the back of my mind, and in January 1997 before the start of classes, I rented and watched it. I watched it twice and noted that whoever this Ewan McGregor is, I wanted to see more of him. Well, that spring, a movie called The Pillow Book opened in Lawrence. This was my second Ewan movie. My wish to see more was granted. Trainspotting was my third movie. After that, I’m not sure of the order. It was just a big avalance of Ewan. I was hooked.

My First Ewan
Movie: Shallow Grave.
Greed tears apart roomates, and it is best to leave the crazy accountant in the attic. I think you could convince anybody that breakfast was the most important meal of the day if you had that to look at every morning while you eat.


My Most Recent Ewan
Movie: Big Fish
Tales are best told tall, especially if they involve Ewan standing outside your window in a field of flowers. Time and reality hits you like a ton of bricks once you’re back in the real world after watching a Ewan movie.



So, here’s hoping to 7 more years, more independant films where we can hear his real accent and not his John Wayne American accent, a sooner rather than later release of Young Adam without the good bits cut out, and lots of Obi-Wan lightsaber action.

Oh, if you would like to play a little Stu-is-out-of-her-freakin’-mind-and-needs-help trivia, there is one Ewan movie that I do not own, and haven’t even seen. Care to take a guess and only one guess? Dave is disqualified from this trivia question.