Weekend Cinema

Since I spent most of Saturday in my apartment, had company over on Saturday night, and lounged on the couch for most of yesterday, by mid afternoon I was going completely insane. There's a moment where being in your apartment goes from comfy and relaxed to feeling trapped, claustrophobic and lonely (I won't even start on the part where being in my apartment also means watching CNN and crying until I can't take it any more). Whenever this happens to me I think of the Anne Lamott quote from her book Grace Eventually,

"It's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly, spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world."

Last weekend when this happened I went and read at a coffee shop, but yesterday I decided to go to the Cinema. The movies. The Pictures. And saw Up In The Air. Going to the movies by myself is something I started doing in the last year. I've gotten to the point in life where when I want to do something and can't find anyone to join me (or most the time don't want anyone to join me) I just go by myself. I do a lot of things by myself. But I find that I like going to the movies alone, it's relaxing and I like being out in the world, but not really having to deal with the world. The movie itself was disappointing, but at least when I got home I was happy to be there.