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Those film capsule reviews I’ve been threatening are finally up on the sidebar. It’s funny, but I could have sworn I’d seen more movies.

[Forgot one: Muppet Treasure Island, which I watched with members of the Monty Python Society maybe a month ago. Not much to say about it, but it’s there now.]

So. I spent the weekend in Maryland, visiting my sister, who’s in school just outside of Baltimore. I don’t, however, have any photographs, which is a shame, since the weather was quite wonderful and both the Inner Harbor and Fell’s point are really very nice. But that’s okay, we had a good time. The Aquarium, though overcrowded and sometimes overheated, was fun. We ate well. We enjoyed ourselves. It was nice to be away for awhile.

But I think I need another day off to re-acclimate myself. I am so not ready to be at work right now.

It’s Friday, just barely. I’ll be in Maryland all weekend, visiting my sister with my parents. Most likely, you will not be. Enjoy whatever it is you’ll be doing. In the meantime, the Friday Five:

1. Did you vote in your last elections? No. I voted in 2000 (for Nader), but I didn’t re-register when I moved this August. It’s okay, though. The only candidate I knew anything about and for whom I would have voted is now our governor-elect anyway.

2. Do you know who your elected representatives are? Governor, yes. Senators or representatives? No.

3. Have you ever contacted an elected representative? If so, what was it about? I posed for pictures with a couple of town and county representatives when I became an Eagle Scout, and I once wrote (printed but never mailed) a letter (scroll down; there’s also an HTML version here) to John Lawless.

4. Have you ever participated in a demonstration? Does this count?

5. Have you ever volunteered in an election? What was the result? No, never. I’ve only ever voted in three — two presidential elections and one school board election. I’ve never volunteered.

When I moved, I didn’t re-register to vote. So I won’t be voting today. You should, if you can.

I also won’t be participating in Nanowrimo this year. Not that I have before, but it’s an interesting idea, and I need an excuse to keep writing, an incentive to finish what I write. But November is a bad month for big projects. I’ll be away all this weekend in Baltimore, visiting my sister with my parents, and then there’s Thanksgiving. There’s also the squirrel-fishing event the Monty Python Society is planning, but that looks like it will be on a weekday, so I probably won’t be able to attend. Which is a shame, but even that doesn’t free enough time to seriously work on a novel. I’ll have to look for other excuses and write smaller things.

If you have the time to participate, though, you should. There are worse things in the world than bad novels.