I didn't see Coda until it was streaming, but I enjoyed it. It's kinda funny, kinda sweet... it doesn't feel like it's trying to be a big important movie.

But it was the winner!

I'm realizing now it's the Oscars for movies that came out in 2021 when most movie theaters were just barely re-opening.

The first movie we saw in a theater after the lockdown was The French Dispatch, but Dune was the only Hollywood movie we saw that year.

Don't feel alone David. If I knew about Coda before this morning it left no traces whatsoever in my memory.

I remember seeing New Mutants and Synchronic in the theaters in late 2020, correctly guessing that both would be sparsely attended. I think there were two other people in my showing of the latter.

Poking my head between Zoom lessons, to update that we're still as fine as possible.

(What's worse than a really long Zoom lesson? A really long Zoom lesson that has to be stopped multiple times because of alarms! With students who have been woken several times each night by alarms, so already find it difficult to concentrate, and a lecturer with a similar challenging schedule, yay.)

Take care, y'all. We're trying to do our best here, as well.

Good to "see" you, Nilly!

An abundance of virtual hugs sent your way, Nilly. Thanks for checking in.

Sending so much love, Nilly

Hi Nilly—so much love and luck being pushed your way!!! It sounds awful.

Hugs to you and yours, Nilly!

Nilly! So good to see your pixels.

Huh. My JazzFest tickets/wristband is in transit with USPS so I checked the tracking and so far it has gone from NOLA to St Rose to Denver to Houston and back to Denver. Says it’s supposed to get to me on Friday, no idea why it is taking that route. Plenty early, though, which was my only real concern when the website said it would be mailed in early April