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Enjoying the Sun

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | Personal, Sites | No Comments

We’ve been having some fantastic weather for the longest time. Clear blue sky and sunshine - but it’s freezing cold. Anyway, it’s doing wonders for the mood. On the other hand, the extremely dry air has lead to serious Fine Particulate Matter. For 10 days now it’s been extremely high: 95 (up to 50 is ‘normal’).  I’ve found this comment for levels between 50-99: “People with respiratory disease should limit prolonged exertion”. I suffer from something one could call allergy-induced asthma and only show sypmtoms when fine particular matter levels are high, as they are now - or pollen are in the air. Which of course they are currently as well - the warm weather in January has led to some early blooming. So additionally, my eyes & nose are all itchy. Still, I enjoy going out and do some walking - but I’m paying the price in the evening after moderate exercise or right after some heavier excercise (such as walking up a hill). Coughing, coughing, coughing… Maybe I should add that what I consider exercise other people would never dream of calling that. It’s just regular walking around town. I think I’ll have to ask the doctor for new medicine.

Site wise: I’ve managed to get a ton of scanning done for the Marion site. I’ve finished adding all the portrait sessions I have and am about 2 thirds through adding video clips & screencaps of recent interviews and public appearances. I intend on finishing all of that before the César & Oscar awards this weekend.

My computer, while still working, has recently been behaving weird. So I’m doing much of the capping, encoding & scanning off-line and when I do go online I’m not running MSN. So if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been that’s what happened. I’m mostly on Gmail - so you could send me chat messages on there. Or email me. I’m currently much better at maintaining email correspondance than I usually am. Oh, and if you’re having problems reaching me at my domain emails (sophiamyles.org, seethesun.org, marion-cotillard.org) please let me know. It’d help sorting out the problem if I can be sure that there really is one.

Sense & Sensibility

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | Celebrity, Film | 2 Comments

Recently watched the new BBC adaptation. I really really loved it. But Kate Winslet will always remain my favourite Marianne Dashwood. There are many other things I loved in the Ang Lee version - but as a whole I’ve never really been happy with the ages of the actors… I love this new version especially for its feeling as a whole, for its visuals and for its locations - and especially for its soundtrack! And isn’t Hattie Morahan simply the best? I loved her as Elinor Dashwood.

Marion won a BAFTA! I’m soooo happy February 10 is quickly becoming a great date for Marion. Last year she performed 2 Piaf songs live on TV, this year she won a BAFTA plus appeared in The New York Times Magazine’s Oscar Portfolio. I myself like the date February 10 too lol

Oh, and as much as I loved the previous layout I never really felt it worked as a blog layout. I was absolutely craving something new, something simple - and I fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it.

Ashes 2 Ashes

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 | Celebrity, Film, Sites | 1 Comment

In reference to the post title.

Honestly, I don’t know how I should manage with everything! Marion is everywhere right now - but in a good way, I think, more like subtly everywhere - which is absolutely lovely because there’s all this fantastic coverage. It’s just trying to find all the various pics and especially digging up videos is so time-consuming…

I still need to finish the Projects section on the Sophia website, it’s coming along great, and in my opionion it will be a great information source, but, again, it is a time-consuming task. I still need to finish writing the transcript of the Fan Q&A, as well as the re-write of the biography and re-add all the affiliates.

Even though, I’ve decided to keep Catalina I have not once worked on it this year - shame on me - but am reluctant to talk to 2 people who asked to help out/take over the site. Don’t know what they want really. But I want to continue to be involved, so no fears there, but I sure can use some help.

The upcoming projects - well, I don’t think I should even contemplate them right now. But they might end up as some kind of mini-site or whatever…

I never seem to muster up the necessary motivation to keep working on sites day after day in all my free time - don’t know if that’d be a good idea to start with. So I watched Season 2 of Life on Mars this week. Even though, the way the ending left everything doesn’t clear up all the questions and plot ‘holes’ I love the series. It’s really cool and intelligent. I so envy UK residents who can watch the sequel Ashes to Ashes as of this Thursday. I have a feeling it might be even better. Keeley Hawes? I think she’s great. I think I’ll have to try to find a way to watch this as well.

Oh, and I’ve been watching YouTube videos again… Isn’t this making you fall in love with Moonlight? Watch

Q&A

Friday, February 1st, 2008 | Personal | No Comments

From Sara Amelia’s blog:

Hi, my name is:
Maria

When I’m nervous:
My face gets all flushed and my voice gets pitchy-ier (is that a word? lol)

By this time next year:
Dunno. Just trying to plan something out of the ordinary for thiis year still
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