the groundhog day project

(637) (That's the number for this blog entry. It will be consistent neither with the personal numbers or any film references below.) I don't remember what day I "met" my wife, or "met" either of the girlfriends before her. Since I met them online, they were just names on a screen for a while before they became someone important to me. I know Katie mattered to me sometime in July, Miranda in June, Sarah in August. That last one--who I would later marry and from which I will soon be divorced--August 15th, 2001, what I would later call "Arrow Day." (And, not for some cheesy, Cupid-related reason, and that only even occurred to me now because I saw Avengers: Age of Ultron tonight and watched the latest episode of Arrow earlier today and the bow-and-arrow thing was in my head... No, Arrow Day took its name from a particular message board post of mine that got us talking. I posted an arrow pointing to the link to my website after mention of writing...

In the real world, it is Mother's Day. In the film it's about to be Groundhog Day, obviously. But, in honor of Mother's Day, I thought I'd share some detail of a scene I've mentioned before from Danny Rubin's original script so you can meet Mrs. Connors, Phil's mother. INT. APARTMENT HALLWAY -- NIGHT Phil stands facing a closed door. It opens. A little old LADY in a bathrobe answers. MRS. CONNORS Philip! PHIL Hi, Ma. THEY hug. MRS. CONNORS Philip! What time is it? What’re you doing here? They enter the APARTMENT PHIL Sorry about the hour. MRS. CONNORS You look freezing. Take off your shoes. PHIL I’m fine. MRS. CONNORS Put your feet up on the table. It’s warmer up there. PHIL I’m fine, really. MRS. CONNORS You’re gong to make yourself sick. PHIL Ma! MRS. CONNORS Go on. Phil pulls off his shoes quickly, like a petulant child. MRS. CONNORS Doesn’t that feel better? PHIL Much. MRS. CONNORS What’re you doing here at this crazy ...