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This morning I got up and drove over to Highland Park to attend my sister's weekly session at Circus Juventis -- a place that actually teaches circus techniques to aspiring folk. Nah, not the clown or animal stuff, but the acrobatic, trapeze, unicycle type of thing. Cool. I filmed my sister performing her trapeze skills and I even (all in the name of shooting good video) climbed all the way up to the trapeze platform with no safety harness and filmed from upon high. A bit nervous, I was. It was fun, but my sister was disappointed that she didn't convince me to take the fun way down -- via trapeze. I climbed down the tiny rope ladder instead.

I stopped at the video store on the way home and picked up a few DVDs for my collection (on sale cheap): Chocolat and The House Of Mirth. I also got a few empty cases (for those home-brew video projects!).
Upon arriving at home, I loaded up my mountain bike and drove out to Derrick's house where we transferred to his truck and drove down to the Louisville Swamp (where the annual Renaissance Festival is held). Not a very technical trail, but it was a fun ride and the weather was stunningly nice. There is this giant rock out in the middle of this field, a total anomaly. It is about 16 feet high by about 20 feet in diameter and appears to be a mixture of solid granite and some other dark dense rock. The view from on high is nice. How many other people have stood there over the millenia?
I stopped by the new SuperTarget store, just out of curiousity, and ended up purchasing a new Hoover vaccuum cleaner. Well, I needed one anyway as my old one broke months ago and the one I was borrowing had to be returned. I bought a couple other small things. I think it is true: you can't go to Target without dropping about $100.
When I got home in the evening, I made some dinner and watched 'Chocolat' -- what a wonderfully great movie. I really liked it and recommend it to all. The thing that confused me, though, is why they deleted the scenes they did (in the Deleted Scenes section) -- they fit perfectly in the movie and probably only saved them 10 minutes of time. Why?

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