{"id":10908,"date":"2013-11-27T23:52:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T04:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2013-11-27T23:52:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T04:52:44","slug":"wednesday-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10908","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It rained and rained and rained all night, and although it let up quite a bit by morning, it rained and rained and rained again all day.<\/p>\n

I was just as glad not to be at work. Our office closed early for tomorrow’s holiday, but I’d taken the day off altogether, in the same plan that’s had me burning up left-over vacation days with three-day weekends lately. This will be a five-day weekend, thanks to Thanksgiving and the Friday after, and I won’t go back to the office until next Tuesday. Just last week, we were talking to our UK boss about Thanksgiving, and he was saying, “That must be nice. And I suppose lots of people take the Friday off as well?” He was actually shocked when we told him the office was closed, that both Thursday and Friday are paid days off, and that a four-day weekend for Thanksgiving is a pretty typical American custom.<\/p>\n

I went and got a haircut this morning, to at least try and pretend like I had some kind of schedule. But mostly I just sat around, watched an episode of Sleepy Hollow<\/i>, tried to explain iTunes to my mother, and avoided going back out in the rain. I only replied to a single work e-mail. Not exactly an eventful<\/i> day off, but I’m not complaining.<\/p>\n

Last night, I watched Star Trek III: The Search for Spock<\/i>, which I seem to remember having watched in theaters, even if the movie itself wasn’t perfectly familiar. It wasn’t bad — not as good as Wrath of Khan<\/i> or as much fun as The Voyage Home<\/i>, perhaps, but I think history has been kind to the movie, and there’s a certain hokey nostalgia that hangs over it. A lot of the practical effects are dated, and there’s a fair amount of scenery chewing — Christopher Lloyd’s no Ricardo Montalban, but his Klingon and Shatner’s Kirk trade a good bit of yelling — but it’s entertaining.<\/p>\n

Wake in Fright<\/a>, on the other hand, which I watched this evening…well, it was interesting. It’s set in the Australian outback in the early 1970s and starts to feel like a horrible fever-dream after a while. I think the moral of the movie is “don’t drink so much that butchering kangaroos in the dead of night seems like a good time.” Seriously, the kangaroo hunt<\/a> is bloody and graphic and awful to watch. Though maybe the disclaimer about this at the end is strangely preferable to the “No animals were harmed during the making of this picture” we often see — and which it turns out might not be worth a damn<\/a>. Still, that doesn’t make the scenes any easier to sit through.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s been my Wednesday. Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving, and then I have three more days of weekend to get through. I wonder how I’ll manage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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