{"id":5214,"date":"2010-11-19T22:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:35:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:35:49","slug":"this-feels-like-my-third-friday-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5214","title":{"rendered":"This feels like my third Friday in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, what did I do today, the second day of my four-day weekend?<\/p>\n

Well, I read some. Last night, I started Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle<\/i>, 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<\/a> 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<\/a> of her work, and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it.<\/p>\n

I watched just a little TV, namely this week’s great episode of Community<\/i> and another episode of QI<\/i>. I also watched The Bicycle Thieves<\/a>, which I’d been meaning to watch for quite awhile. It’s one of those movies that shows up all the time<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,14,28,17],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}