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This past weekend, Chris and I watched The Blair Witch Project. Believe it or not, but I had never actually seen it.

I have mostly stayed away from found footage movies, just because it doesn't take a lot for me to get motion sickness.

(Seriously. You don't want to go on any sort of long car ride with me.)

But I really enjoyed it, and I can't believe it took me so long to finally see it. If you also have been residing under the same rock with me, I definitely recommend it. It's like a little nineties time capsule full of fright.

But I don't want to talk about the movie exactly. I do want to talk about the absolutely rational thought I had of wanting to hike the Appalachian Trail while watching a group of film students get lost while hiking a trail.

I'm being serious.

While the film students were arguing about the map and what happened to it, I kept thinking to myself, "Marisa, remember when you wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail and watched every YouTube video on the subject? Maybe now's a good time to start preparing to do that."

And as the film progressed, approximately 3% of my brain was making a list of things I'll need, like a good backpack and hiking boots, as well as a set of journals where I could write my simple musings on nature all Walden-style.

(That part of my brain doesn't really know what else I would need for such a hike, though I assume there is a lot.)

Even as the film ended, I thought to myself that I could probably be ready for the hike by fall.

This is not the only quixotic horror movie-induced dream I've had.

Hush is a movie about a deaf-mute author who lives alone in the most perfect little cabin in the woods. Oh. And like, she's completely cut off from the world when a masked killer comes to call.

I won't give anything else away, but it's a great movie by the creators of Midnight Mass, and it's available on Netflix if you need a movie to watch this weekend.

But, just know, that as I watched that movie with my heart racing, 3% of my brain wanted my own little cabin in the woods to write in. As the story unfolded and the terror ratcheted up, I was mentally rearranging the house for better flow and to be more conducive to writing.

I do want the record to show that I don't always get visions of my best life while watching horror movies. For example, when I watch zombie movies, I think to myself, "If I'm ever in this situation, I'm just gonna let the zombies take me. It looks way too hard to survive."

So do with that information what you will.

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