It’s a good thing to take time off. And much as I enjoy trips like Ravencon, they don’t count. Time off involves kicking back, being unstructured (I’m overly organized and rarely pull this off) and having as few obligations as possible (with four pets to take care of, I usually have some). So I schedule one work day off a month.
As TYG left Thursday on a mini-vacation (back tomorrow), this seemed like a good week for it. I know from experience that watching over the pets full-time doesn’t promote focus. So three days of work, Thursday to do blogging and the like, Friday to watch movies.
It didn’t work so well. Monday, for various reasons, we got back late from the dogs’ physical rehab sessions, which threw off my morning. I got distracted by various little tasks that ate into my time. And I also spent a lot more time than I should have doing research reading. After thinking about the number of Jekyll/Hyde films that include sex workers, from Ivy in the Fredric March version to the murdered streetwalkers of Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.
I researched the topic online and discovered Russell Campbell’s Marked Women, a book about prostitution in the movies. It’s quite dense and I spent all day Tuesday finishing it. I think it was worth it though (review to come soon). Then yesterday, after I drove around for a bunch of errands, I wound up cleaning out my email — I try to do that once a week — and that sucked up more time than anticipated. So I’m blogging much of today rather than crashing and lounging. Such is life.
I did get in a Local Reporter article on the improved parking situation in Carrboro (much like Destin, parking is a hot topic there). I also got up an Atomic Junk Shop post about a strange 1970 Supergirl story (were 1970s college students really into Greta Garbo?) and Steve Rogers being a jerk to his girlfriend Sharon Carter (as shown below. Gene Colan art).
Stan Lee was still doing good work on Spider-Man but I don’t think he had any idea what he was doing with Captain America.
The end result, this was neither as productive nor as relaxing a week as I’d hoped. Perhaps June’s day off will be better.
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