Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day — his birthday was Saturday — which means that my office was closed for the day.
I spent it not doing an awful lot. I finished reading The Best American Comics 2010, which I quite enjoyed, but which has now left me with a longer list of additional comics I want to check out. I watched a movie, Sleeping Dogs Lie, which is a decent, if not altogether perfect, dark comedy about secrets and relationships, and which is surprisingly funny and sweet for a film that starts — be forewarned — with a woman performing oral sex on a dog. (Entirely off-screen, and not particularly graphic, but dear god what kind of search requests am I inviting with this?) Then this evening, I watched The Social Network. It’s this tiny independent movie — you’ve probably never heard of it — but I think it has an outsider’s chance of winning a couple of awards this season. (In all seriousness, it’s really quite good.)
And that’s really it. It’s back to work tomorrow. Unless, you know, it snows too much or something. But I’m not really expecting that to happen.
Oh, the keywords you’ll get now! Glad you had a day off. I wish we had a mid-January holiday here. No long weekend through the cold month seems unjustified. And cruel.