Earlier tonight I made lemon bars while Martin filed FBARs, which is Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts. Like taxes, it’s tedious. And also like taxes, it’s one of those offputting things that tends to get put off.
Since Martin diligently took on the task of filing FBARs, I procrastibaked. But is it procrastibaking if I had to make use of lemons laying around, which I had already squeezed and refrigerated the juice for days now?
If you haven’t already filed your taxes or if you’re just looking for something worth procrastinating with that isn’t baking, then maybe watch The Help. (There is a bit of baking involved in the story that is anything but procrastibaking.) It’s a wonderful fantastic movie witih a kick-ass female ensemble that will have your spirits soaring. Promise.
Watch it to see Octavia Spencer, who won the Oscar for her role in it. She’s supererb. And her Oscar acceptance is worth a watch too (when Brad and Angelina were still together!). She’s also good in Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, which is literally on the other side of the tracks from where we live in Oakland. Both movies as well as filmmakers and actors were at Zurich Film Festival during my tenure, but I must have been putting out fires behind the scenes as I missed meeting them. Boo, right.
Not up for a movie? Then watch or listen to U2’s Lemon from Zooropa, one of my favorite U2 and 90’s albums. Coincidentally, I saw U2 here at Oakland coliseum when they were on tour in 1997. They came out of a gigantic disco ball shaped like a lemon. It was one the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Until tomorrow, stay cool while staying home!