Disconnect

[rinue]

Today when I was editing my film, I showed a rough cut to a classmate who had never seen the script. She was confused by the ending, when the couple separate at the airport. They're so tender to each other beforehand, so obviously intimate, they go to the airport together...and then suddenly she's walking through the gate alone. She looks back at him and it's not clear from the expression on her face whether they are leaving each other permanently, or for a few weeks, or for a year. My classmate thinks this ambiguity must have been a mistake in my directing.

Ciro's expected arrival date keeps getting further away. The usual ridiculous complications of paperwork surrounding his family; we keep discovering new obscure documents we'll need. Like we have his mother's U.S. birth certificate, but we need her Canadian birth certificate too, since she was born on a military base in Canada, and we have the Canadian birth certificate but don't know how to get it certified in a way the Italians will recognize because Canada never signed the 1961 Hague Convention. And since we'll have the Canadian birth certificate, we'll also need her U.S. citizenship papers, which I don't think have to come through the department of Homeland Security the way his father's do, but if I'm wrong that's another few hundred dollars and another three months' wait. Ciro compares the process to playing chess by mail.

I'm sure he won't be here by the end of term; I'm starting to wonder whether he will be by Christmas. Meanwhile, neither of us can do simple things like sign leases.

In a little over a month, we'll hit the point where we've spent as much time apart as together.

Comments

[marveloustrick.livejournal.com]

They are fools to think the ambiguity is mistake. Have you never lectured them how you love when Thom Yorke sings two words at once: neither alone being the correct reading, but together forming a message greater than their parts.

I was hanging out with Lisa last night, and she asked how you two were doing. I was so excited that Ciro might make it to England in time to see your film premier. I don't know why I thought this would happen, but I sure was happy about it.

We watched the Ochen Chotto DVD for old time's sake. You were really good. I just thought you should know that. Lisa even commented, "She is a hottie, isn't she?" "That she is," I responded.

Just thought you might enjoy a true story of unsolicited compliments from many thousand miles away.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Thanks. I was never sure how good a performer I was for that show, but I was normally saying interesting enough stuff that it didn't matter much. I hope Lisa (who is also a hottie) is doing well. Does she still have the kitten? Or, well, now it would be a cat? And how is Scarface? I saw a pretty black cat yesterday (which is lucky in England) and I thought of her.

[marveloustrick.livejournal.com]

Lisa is doing quite well. She's made a living teaching dance for the last little while, and she has just completed courses to become a professional masseuse. Once she completes her internship she will be certified and can do... whatever that lets her do. She brought her whole setup, table and everything, over on Saturday, and she gave me an excelent massage. Seriously, I was like two inches taller afterwards.

She does still have a cat, though I'm not certain it is the same one. I haven't actually been to her apartment yet, we keep meeting over at my place.

Scarface actually just got into a bit of trouble. She got in a bad fight and had to be rushed to the vet. Apparently, a pack of coyotes and a wolf have taken up residence in the creek behind my parents' house, and they've eaten like twenty of the local cats. Scar is actually the first to survive. She is now, officially, an indoors only cat. She lost part of one ear and has a large wound running down her back. Both these things seem to bother her less than taking her medicine.

On a happier note, Lisa has started dating a certain charming Guildhall student and will be coming to dance class with him this very evening.