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The trouble with having access to excellent microwave popcorn is it ruins your movie popcorn experience.



The barbecue-flavored cinema popcorn you used to love now tastes like cardboard. Stale cardboard. Because how can that compare to the awesomeness of Blast O Butter?



So goodbye, cardboard popcorn. Hello, chocolate-covered almonds.



I gave a talk about my book at a school last week and one of the students asked, "What kind of movies do you like watching?"



Every kind, I said, my friends and I watch practically every movie released. Actually, I said it more crudely than that. "Lahat ng movie pinapatulan namin." Hi, I'm Pam and I'm a movie slut.



But my intentions are pure. I want to help keep the movie industry alive. Yes, just like I want to keep the publishing industry alive by buying more books than I can read. And as my pile of unread books keeps growing and growing, I tell myself I will get around to reading all of them eventually.



I am currently reading a book that is moving so slow. I am halfway done and I feel like nothing's happening. I am tempted to just drop it but I'm trying to give it another chance. I very rarely stop reading a book even when I think it's bad. It just feels like cruel abandonment.



I have a feeling I will be able to watch a lot of movies and read a lot of books this month. Because I am just days away from what shall be known as 18 days of loneliness.



It will be tough but I will suck it up.



Because that's what you do. You suck it up, you watch movies and you swim in books.