Today I am in Chicago but I'm leaving for Atlanta later this afternoon. We had gorgeous weather over the weekend - for the first time, it felt like the beginnings of fall. I've always loved this time of year - my favorite two days of the year are the first cool day where you have to wear a jacket and the first warm day where you can go without one.
I made some major home purchases over the weekend, including a dining room set. I spent way more money on it than I planned, but what the hell.... I also bought two leather ottomans (with storage inside - essential for condo living) that I am using as a coffee table of sorts but that can also be used as additional seating. I'm extremely happy with them because they are exactly what I wanted.
I went for a great 5-6 mile run over the weekend. I hadn't run since the half marathon so it was nice to get back out there and feel good. I had a much different recovery experience with this race - I was really sore the day after the race (going down stairs - ouch!) but that was about it. I kept thinking the 2nd day would be worse but it never happened. I would really like to do another half marathon before the end of the year and then do a race in Cabo San Lucas that my Chicago running group is planning for the end of January. I felt so good about last week's race even days after - I'm riding this high of endorphins that I still don't think has ended. What a wonderful feeling.
I watched the Emmys last night but was so annoyed when Alec Baldwin, Edie Falco, and James Gandolfini didn't win that I turned it off. The thing that really annoys me about the Best Actor - Drama award is that all of JG's competition play essentially the same character in every episode - cocky doctor/lawyer/intelligence agent who realizes at some point that other people may actually have something worthwhile to say, and then resumes being cocky doctor/lawyer/intelligence agent. Tony Soprano, especially the way JG played him, was never the same guy - he would lash out when you didn't expect it, react calmly when you thought he would blow....all the reasons that show was great are all of the reasons that JG should have won. And to me, it was minor vindication that the show itself won. Sigh.
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I don't know what the people who voted for the Emmy's were smoking but I thought they blew it on just about every award. I loved what Sally Field probably said that we weren't allowed to hear, but how did she beat out Edie Falco? Even Sally Field didn't seem to think she should have won.
And James Spader over James Gandolfini and Denis Leary?!
It seemed like the industry decided that broadcast TV had to make a comeback over cable or they would risk becoming completely irrelevant. It's a little late.
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