“Broad Daylight” by Gabriel Rios
Month: November 2010
“You know what?” “What?” “We’re in trouble.”
A boring day at home, which, quite frankly, is exactly what I was hoping for.
This evening I watched The Crazies, the recent remake of George Romero’s 1973 film. As horror remakes go, it was pretty decent — not least of all because most horror remakes aren’t decent at all, and because the original wasn’t all that perfect either. I do think the original maybe did a better job of portraying madness and a town in the grips of it. (As I’ve noted before, it and The Signal, another horror movie with similar themes, make for some interesting companion viewing.) By the end, in the remake, the townsfolk are a little too standard-issue zombie. Still, Timothy Olyphant’s good in it, and the movie offers some efficient scares.
Song of the day
“Polyester Bride” by Liz Phair
Office Clean Up Day
We spent most of the day — the entire afternoon, actually — cleaning in the office. Throwing out old folders and manuscript printouts, consolidating file drawers where we could, and packing up books to be shipped back to our warehouse in Kentucky. It’s all in preparation for our upcoming move in the spring. Or maybe late winter. I don’t think that, or even how much shelf and storage space we’ll each have there, is set in stone just yet. We’ll almost definitely need to do this a couple more times before the move, but this should mean we have just that much less work to do then.
And really, some of those old papers just needed to go.
The most exciting part of the day — besides the free pizza — was when I discovered the office does have a shredder, and I could use it. Which, in retrospect, sounds almost not even a little bit exciting. But hey, that’s about you can hope for on Office Clean Up Day.