jordmoder*

I slept in really late this morning, after coming home in the early hours from Pretoria (reason: a late screening of The Dark Knight with a bunch of friends). The film was fantastic. It's almost a post-heroic superhero movie, and though this is not the sort of genre I usually like, I really appreciated the brains behind the storyline. It's not camp or kitsch, but grim and thoughtful instead. And we saw it in Imax, which made the cityscape shots incredibly evocative - even dizzying, operatic. Then there's Heath Ledger's joker. He's terrifying, and his smeared face and dangling-limbed body personify anarchy. And yet, he has no cause - he's not doing it for money or to prove a point. He's 'simply' turning the world on its head, no rhyme or reason (a notion that is perfectly conveyed by one of the last shots of the film, in which Joker is laughing eerily, hanging upside-down but filmed right-side-up). What a smart movie. Oh, and Christian Bale is delicious. ;)

In other news, I've just been on Google Earth, taking in the views from above of my soon-to-be home. Bridgton is about 38 miles (60km) from Portland, Maine, and the drive up from the airport looks like a rather straight-forward one. Mercifully.

The whole area of Bridgton (which is small and rural; population = +/- 6000), is surrounded by lakes, which look really beautiful from the Google Earth perspective, and will no doubt be more beautiful still when I see them for real.

3 weeks, 3 days to go.


*Danish word for midwife: jordmoder, or "earth-mother".