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One new thing I'm tracking this year is longform non-fiction.  I've had lists of articles I've saved over the years but never seem to find the time to read them.  So I've been copying and pasting articles into a word doc, converting them into PDFs, and loading them onto my old-school ereader (one of those that's the actual e-ink and doesn't have wifi or anything).  It's been a nice thing to do on some of my breaks at work, because I've been trying to take actual breaks and get away from the computer.

tHiS Is tHe WoRsT kAnSaS tEaM iN LiKe FiFtEeN yEaRs.

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The nets belong to Kansas!#MarchMadness #FinalFour #kubball pic.twitter.com/tZIUOvHXAv

— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 26, 2018

A Number 1 was finally beaten by a Number 16.

It wasn't us.

KU can never win another game ever again, it's fine, because IT WASN'T US.

One of my favorite songs - listen.

Oof, beefed this year's predictions.  I made the bold prediction of Get Out thinking this year might be similar to 2016, when Mad Max and The Revenant were the head-to-head favorites but Spotlight sort of beamed in to win with only an Original Screenplay win.  But if I hadn't gone No Guts No Glory, I would have picked Three Billboards as the likely winner, so it was sort of a double beef.

Also was predicting at least one actor upset, which tends to happen most often in Supporting Actor (see: Adam Arkin, Mark Rylance), but all four categories went right down the line according to precursors.  Ah well.

An okay show.  I was surprised by one of the montages, the sort of overall Movie montage; I'll have to see if it gets uploaded to YT later on.  There was a line of dialogue about how hope (I think it was hope) never dies, that was cut over a shot of Anton Yelchin from Star Trek.  Caught me completely off-guard and out of nowhere; I just started blubbering.

I enjoyed The Shape of Water and am always happy when something of a genre-bent wins big, but I have to admit, it just didn't come together as a film for me.  I think all of the pieces were there except for the actual script itself; there were just some holes, some places that didn't gel.  I always have favorites in the Best Picture race, but it's sort of odd to have a movie I really liked win that I think actually didn't really deserve to win?  I actually only saw three out of nine of the nominees this year, but the other two that I did see - Dunkirk and Get Out - were both better, I think. 

It was awfully cute to see Doug Jones up on that stage, though.

Best Picture: Get Out
Best Director: Guillermo del Toro
Best Actor: Gary Oldman
Best Actress: Frances McDormand
Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe
Supporting Actress: Allison Janney

Animated Feature: Coco
Animated Short: Revolting Rhymes
Adapted Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name
Original Screenplay: Get Out
Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049

Documentary Feature: Last Man in Aleppo
Documentary Short: Edith + Eddie
Live Action Short: DeKalb Elementary
Foreign Language Film: The Square

Film Editing: Dunkirk
Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Sound Mixing: The Shape of Water
Production Design: The Shape of Water
Original Score: The Shape of Water

Original Song: Mystery of Love, Call Me By Your Name
Makeup and Hair: Darkest Hour
Costume Design: Phantom Thread
Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049

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I feel like I've learned a lot doing this list in 2017.  One is that I have time to read and watch TV and movies and all that, but I waste it instead.  The other is that I've gotten really bad about writing things down in a timely manner - like, I did most of December by going back through my journal to see when I mentioned watching or reading things - so I have no doubt I've missed some stuff.  So I need to be better about writing things down, if not every day, then every other day or every few days.  That, and I need to use my time more productively.  And yes, watching TV is more productive than laying around playing Gardenscapes or endlessly scrolling through random tumblrs.