How the other half lives
Every week I try to make a point of having a very nice day set aside for myself. Usually I eventually have to work in the evening, but I've discovered how important it is to spend a morning alone, either in the house or doing a sparce few local errands, and catch up with the things I always want to devote more of my time to. As it turns out, this day is usually Monday and I have the time to work in the garden or go to the public library. Yesterday was occupied, so I moved my sluggishly important independent day to today. Spent the morning straightening up the squallor of my bathroom and the office (which essentially serves as my main work space). Since I'll be overhauling lots of these piles soon, it felt good to have an early look at everything buried in the stratified piles of papers, pictures, and random objects that make life better. It is a nice day, but the class reunion emails demanded my attention and I didn't make it outside. I did however make my weekly exchange at the library - coming home with
Edward Sissorhands (a movie I've been thinking about a lot recently) and a few other titles, none of which I am especially excited to see but felt I should take home anyway. Much to my chagrin, HBO ran
Might Aphrodite today and I had my Woody Allen fix. I did rent
Love and Death with Woody and Diane Keaton and I am excited for that one, so far, out of the films I've seen of Allen's, they seem to have the best on-screen chemistry out of any of Allen's leading ladies.
To change it up a little, I actually brought some books home with me this week, in a retro throw back to the forgotten pastime of reading. I selected two thin volumes from the Non-fiction "new releases" as it were - Will Durant's
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time and then Francis Davis's
Afterglow, a conversation with the notorious film critic Pauline Kael about a year before her death. These titles both seem interesting to different parts of my mind... and I am going for the short attention span pleasers, books I can finish in one sitting, since I can't really plan for any time longer than a sitting.
I sat and had my sushi and my seaweed salad, listening to my new cds, and actually don't mind having to go to work today... I feel like I had enough time to myself.
posted by lmjasinski at 2:40 PM
