Lazy weekend

This week was a three-day work week for me, because my mom came to visit on Halloween and stayed till Tuesday. Since I had a glut of vacation days remaining (thank you, switches!), I took the whole time off.

The short week suits me just fine, especially since Tuesday was election night, which is like the Super Bowl for geeky journalists. It also, however, means a day of complete chaos and disorganization for the understaffed copy desk. I didn't leave the newsroom until 2:30 a.m. and wanted to sleep for days.

My weekend starts tomorrow, and I'm faced with a very rare situation: an entire day with nothing planned. What shall I do? I'm sick right now, so the responsible thing to do would be to stay in bed all day and recover, but what fun is that? I could work on my projects, but again ... that's no fun. Maybe I'll go see a matinee. Or do some Christmas shopping, even though I'm massively early. Or paint something. Or try out some new pumpkin recipes (I can't get enough pumpkin these days). Who knows.

I've been reading like a fiend recently, mostly the books from my childhood I wrote about a few entries ago, but also a few really fantastic books, including Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (fantastic!), Ender's Shadow (possibly more fantastic), Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus (still reading, and liking it so far), and Neil Strauss' The Game (frighteningly enlightening and fascinating).

I decided not to do NaNoWriMo this month, simply because November is too nuts to voluntarily add some more stress. But it has gotten me thinking -- it's been a ridiculously long time since I've painted or done any creative writing. The closest I've come for either is writing and drawing in my journal; blogging; writing stories for the paper, which doesn't really count, regardless of how creative; and working on essays for the book my mom, sister and I are working on. I can tell, too. When I forget to give myself a creative outlet outside work, I tend to get a little blue and feel really restless.

Maybe tomorrow will be a painting day, after all. And maybe tomorrow, I'll also scan and post some delicious grammar mistakes I've stockpiled. :)

Comments

[cami]

haha, super bowl! (laughs nerd laugh here)