So, what did I do today, the second day of my four-day weekend?
Well, I read some. Last night, I started Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and I read a few more chapters of it today. I’m really quite enjoying it. I’m familiar with Jackson’s work — it’s almost impossible not to be, given the annual award named in her honor — but I think I’ve only ever read the one short story, the one practically every school child has read, “The Lottery.” This week, though, I bought a copy of the Library of America’s collected volume of her work, and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it.
I watched just a little TV, namely this week’s great episode of Community and another episode of QI. I also watched The Bicycle Thieves, which I’d been meaning to watch for quite awhile. It’s one of those movies that shows up all the time on all-time best-of lists, groundbreaking and hugely influential, and it’s not hard to see why. Mostly, though, it’s just a really touching story of a man looking for a job, and a wonderful look at post-World War II Italy.
And I dropped off a package for my father at UPS, then went and bought myself a new toothbrush. Such is the exciting life of leisure I lead.