Hey look I even came up with a new March design!! Maybe I am regaining interest in writing!

Ok. So what’s the attraction to Russell Crowe? I just don’t get it.

Dee and I went to see "A Beautiful Mind" today, and I have to say that I thought it was a wonderful movie and that he is a wonderful actor, but where’s the sex symbol?

I know all sort of people who start salivating at the mention of his name, but I just don’t see it.

He’s short and paunchy and has beefy hands. (For some reason I find his hands to be distracting in any movie I’ve seen him in.) I can’t find a sexy thing about him.

I don’t come away from watching him feeling my heart beat faster. I come away admiring his skill as an actor and totally believing whatever character he created, but that’s it.

Of course I’m coming up blank at the moment as I try to think of an actor who makes my pulse race.

Pierce Brosnan! HE makes my heart race (and has since the days of Remington Steele, which I still have on tape!) He’s what my Nana would have called "black Irish", tall dark and wickedly handsome.

Antonio Banderas. He’s another one. I can watch Evita over and over and never tire of him. All those smoldering Latin looks.

Richard Gere, he’s another one who has aged well and who makes my heart start tripping the light fantastic.

Maybe that’s the problem – Russell Crowe is too fair in complexion. I seem to be attracted to dark haired men.

Now that’s shallow!

The reality is that at this point I’d be attracted to any man who showed even the most remote interest in me.

I think I’m willing to settle for breathing.

Which moves right from shallow . . . to pathetic!

Yep. That’s fairly accurate.

If you haven’t seen "A Beautiful Mind" it’s really worth going to. I didn’t know anything at all about this man, John Nash. I didn’t know he was so tortured or so brilliant.

All the performances are Oscar worth, as is the directing. That’s the guy that I’m really rooting for, I want Ron Howard to win for direction. He’s been overlooked for tons of stuff – especially Apollo 13 – so I’d like to see him win.

Of course I don’t really watch the Oscars the way that others do, hanging on each award. Half the time I don’t even manage to stay awake until the end of the show.

I save all my energy for the Tony Awards.

I have so much work to do this weekend, both here in the apartment, for school and for the chorus. I should have stayed in today to work. But I’m glad I went to the movies.

I also rented "Moulin Rouge", a movie I’ve been dying to see, as everyone claims that I’m going to be crazy about it. I’m afraid it won’t live up to its hype. But I got it today and I have it until Thursday, so I should get to see it a couple of times if I do end up liking it a lot.

It’s a good thing to have tomorrow, now that there are no sports on television that are worth watching. The length of the Patriot’s season was such a treat (and such a gift and such a high!), then I got the Olympics right away to get me through the next two weeks. But that’s done, no good sports. (I don’t like basketball all that much and find it boring to watch on TV.)

I guess I could keep watching reruns of the SuperBowl, at least I wouldn’t lose my voice screaming at the television the way I did the night of the live event.

That was so cool.

I think it might be worth watching at least the highlights again, because it made me feel so great!

At the moment I have "Bridget Jones" on the television but I’m just not getting why it was so good. I read the book, and thought it was just so-so.

Time to find the clicker. . .

Hurrah! Stars on Ice!!! Figure skating! Something to watch! God bless A & E!!