And maybe this year will be her last.

All hail Rebecca, who survived another back-to-school season and didn't get trampled to death! Yesterday, I went with Sara and some friends of hers to the movies and saw The Dark Knight Rises. I really don't like most comic-book/superhero movies, so I wasn't expecting to enjoy it, but I did. A LOT more than the last Batman movie, The Dark Knight, which Sara and Adam dragged me to see right after it came out; it just about bored me to tears. But I actually found myself liking this one, and I'd even be willing to see it again. It helped a lot than instead of staring at Maggie Gyllenhaal's sad face, this time I got to gaze at the beautiful Marion Cotillard!


I mean, just LOOK at her! You wish you were this gorgeous, Anne Hathaway, but you're not! No woman is.

Sara and I stopped for candy and soda at a gas station on the way there, and I got all excited when the cashier put it in a solid black plastic bag. It's the little things, y'all. I have a nice brown-and-white pattern going in the plarn I'm crocheting, but I'm saving up a little bag of other-colored plarn squares (black, gray, green, yellow, purple) and I hope to incorporate them in some special way.

And this was the conversation Sara and I had en route:
Me: I don't really want to see this, but it does have Marion Cotillard in it. And a child actress.
Sara: And the child actress is playing the young Marion Cotillard.
Me: But I thought she was playing the young Talia al Ghul.
Sara: Oh, yeah. [pause] Ha, just spoiled the ending for you!

35 DAYS LEFT UNTIL SEASON 10 OF NCIS!