All the Leaves are Red, and the Sky is Blue!

The big trees have shed all their leaves and it's time to bust out the rakes!
This weekend I rented some foreign films (Chinese, Italian, and French) and two of them are very good, both Chinese films with English subtitles. One is "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" (also a great book, by the way) and the other is "Farewell, My Concubine" (starring famous Chinese actress Gong Li, who was most recently in the Miami Vice movie). I learned a lot about Beijing opera in the film "Farewell." I don’t care for opera music or opera performances. I might feel different about the Beijing opera, however, as the music and costumes are very exotic.
Sunday afternoon I took a walk around the neighborhood with some friends and we stopped by Panera’s for a little coffee and conversation. It was filled with students bent over their laptops or textbooks. Just another average weekend in the life of Lucy Blue.
Reading: Just finished The Summer Guest, by Justin Cronin and almost to the end of In The Country of Last Things, by Paul Auster. Both pleasant reads (although in Auster’s case, I would describe his fiction with words like "intense, bizarre" and "how does this guy think these things up?").