Changeling

Last night I got to 14,526 words in my NaNoWriMo novel.

I watched a movie on TV last night called Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood. The film, which is based on a true story, is set in Los Angeles in 1928, and tells the story of single mother Christine Collins (played by Angelina Jolie) whose nine year old son goes missing. Five months later the police announce that they have found the child, but Christine insists that the boy they have found is not her son. Continuing her search for the truth, Christine comes into conflict with the notoriously violent and corrupt 1920s LAPD. It was a really good film and very well made.

Later on I watched a horror movie from 1981 called The Entity, directed by Sidney J. Furie. The movie is based on a supposedly true story from 1976, and tells the story of a Los Angeles woman (played by Barbara Hershey) who repeatedly comes under violent attack from an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the attacks are all in her mind, but a group of parapsychologists are determined to prove that the attacks are caused by an evil spirit. It was very slow-moving in places, but pretty atmospheric.

I went along to my parent's house today for lunch. It was a fairly quiet afternoon.

Tomorrow I'm going to get my wisodm tooth removed. Apparently, because of the angle it's coming in at, they are going to be cutting open my gum, drilling a hole into my jawbone and kind of levering the tooth out. Then stitching it back up again. needless to say, I am not looking forward to it. I'll have to take a lot of painkillers apparently and probably won't be on-line tomorrow.