The day off.

I taught all day yesterday, so today I am rewarding myself with a (planned vacation) day off from my regular job. The timing is pretty excellent, since I stayed up late-late (for me) last night watching the Academy Awards, which ran long, as usual. I was so thrilled to see The Hurt Locker win a crapton of awards. Tim and I watched it on Saturday night and we both loved it. It’s difficult to make a movie about the current war in the Middle East without a) being political; or b) being manipulative, and I thought The Hurt Locker managed to not do either. I can’t stand movies where I feel like my emotions are being manipulated–that’s why I hated Crash, which won a few years ago. I thought The Hurt Locker showed us people who were real and heroic and flawed and broken, and I loved it for that. I am also thrilled that finally, after 82 years, a woman won the Best Director award. I thought Mo’Nique’s speech was inspiring and I was creeped out that everyone sitting in James Cameron’s section seemed to be wearing Avatar-blue.

So it was a late night for me after an eventful week (teaching all day Sunday, guest-speaking in the fantastic Dorothea Salo’s collection development class on Saturday–seriously, GSLIS is lucky to have her as an instructor) and I am happy to have the day off to unwind.

The plan for today: I’m going to grocery shop and buy ingredients to make a lasagna. I’m going to go to lunch with Tim, who is working diligently upstairs in his office. I’m going to read, since I have a pile of books to review and an impending deadline. I may watch some or all of the Masterpiece Classic adaptation of Emma, which is sitting on the Tivo. If I get really ambitious, or if I need any of the stuff in the sink for cooking, I might do the dishes. I was going to take pictures of some new yarn acquisitions and add them to Ravelry, but the fog and rain is making this a bad day for that.

Also, I am going to knit. I haven’t picked up my needles in over a week. You’d think that, given the stressful time I’ve been going through, I’d be knitting like mad right now, but I’m not. I’ve been coming home from work and sitting with Tim, talking and making jigsaw puzzles or watching TV. I have so many projects that are thisclose to being finished, and I’d like to get there on a few of them before it gets too warm to wear handknit socks and handknit shawls. I’d also like to make sure that I have a handknit gift for my mother, whose birthday is on May 2. (She has come to expect handknit gifts from me, and I don’t blame her!)

So now, on with the day.