Harry Potter and the Rats of Nimh

[quasigeostrophy]

Saw Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - The Imax Experience with soaring_phoenix today. It was very cool - there is a lot more physical detail visible on that large screen. I was glad to see the film was shown letterboxed. Given that Imax is usually 4:3, like television, I was concerned about panning and scanning or just odd cropping. I could see hairs on Aunt Marge's neck as she was blowing up, more detail in the scratches on Prof. Lupin's (and later Hermione's) face, etc.

This morning, I put on Toni's old ankle "air cast" immobilizer/brace. I hope it will help this tendonitis heal up more quickly. I want to start doing things again, and the recurring pain in that left ankle has been driving me nuts. After wearing the brace today, I can tell that if I'd ever had a joint put in a plaster cast, I would have gone completely bugfuck. I get rather fidgety, and being unable to move an extremity much for a long period is annoying. Going downstairs is the most challenging activity. Upstairs is awkward but not bad. I'll have to see how well my ankle is after I cut the grass tomorrow or Tuesday - I'm going to try to wear the brace during mowing.

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[circumspectly.livejournal.com]

ACK! I had my right hand (pinkie and that useless finger next to the pinkie), wrist and forearm in a cast several years ago, and it was farkin' nuts. Any time I would think about the cast, it would make me twitchy.

We won't talk about what it was like inside of the cast when they took it off...that was at the very height of my barn management career...and it was late breeding season...and the middle of summer in tennessee. gah.

*walks away singing* "Thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks for the memories..."