Yesterday was exciting! I got in a car accident for the first time — the first time I myself was a driver involved, that is. The driver in front of me first slowed slightly, then slammed her brakes when she suddenly noticed a sizable recess in the ground ahead of her. I, reacting first to her slight slowing did not expect her to stop so suddenly as she did, and just as she passed over the recess, i skidded over the gravel at its bottom and rear-ended her. The driver behind me did something much the same. Nobody got hurt, but weirdly enough though my car was hit both from the front and back, it appears undamaged, while the other two cars did not fare so well.
The reason I was out was to pick up a friend so we could go with my parents to dim sum! We went to Chinatown and had lots of super tasty food: shu mai, chicken feet, pot stickers, etc. and several kinds of dumpling with indeterminate nomenclature, described to us by their contents in thickly accented English. Thennnn, we went to a movie theatre and saw the new Pedro Almodovar film, Broken Embraces (Los Brazo Rotos). Some reviews I'd read before seeing it seemed to think Almodovar's slipping, but I saw no evidence of that. Tons of beautiful shots, a story excellently told, and thoroughly engrossing. A lot of Almodovar's ensemble make appearances, and the film-within-a-film riffs on Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. See it see it!