It was back to the grind for me this morning. Fortunately, it hasn’t been too grindy as of yet; everyone around my office seems to be taking their own sweet time to start up the assembly line again, which is fine by me. It’s a funny thing — even though it’s been years since I last worked at the movie theater, whenever I have an extended period of time off my body clock always seems to revert to the hours I used to keep as a projectionist. This means that during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, I started staying up until 2 AM and sleeping until 10. Which means that I only managed about four-and-a-half hours of sleep last night, and I’m probably not going to be much good as a proofreader today.<\/p>\n
Slow workday or not, I am rather bummed that my holiday vacation is already over. I had a lot of things I wanted to accomplish during that time, and I only managed to do about five percent of them. C’est la vie, I suppose, but it’s frustrating to look back on some eleven days of free time — the most precious commodity our overscheduled society currently enjoys — and not have much to show for it. At least I managed to finish Stephen King’s gargantuan magnum opus, The Dark Tower<\/i> series, which, as I now recall, was one of my goals for the year.<\/p>\n
That’s not a terribly good segueway into my annual recap of the previous year’s media consumption, but it’s the best I’m probably going to manage today. As I said, I’m running on only about four-and-a-half hours of sleep…<\/p>\n
Movies Seen in 2005<\/span><\/p>\n Videos Seen in 2005<\/span><\/p>\n Books Completed in 2005 (Fiction)<\/span><\/p>\n
\nLooking at last year’s media lists<\/a>, I am amused to note that I saw exactly the same number of movies in a theater — 31 — as I did in 2004. Apparently my theater-going habits are pretty consistent. My home viewing of previously unseen movies was down slightly — only 23 titles this year instead of 25, probably because I was busily watching so many old TV shows on DVD — but my reading was up somewhat. Last year, I read only six novels and seven non-fiction books; this year I bumped fiction up to 13 titles and non-fiction to nine, for a grand total of 22 books read last year. Yay, me!
\nI’m sure the suspense is killing you, so without further ado, here are the lists for 2005:<\/p>\n\n
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\n[Ed. note: <\/strong>in case you’re wondering about the last three titles, no, Bennion did not lose his mind at the video store; I watched these, ahem, uncharacteristic flicks one Saturday evening in order to placate The Girlfriend’s twelve-year-old niece, who was staying with Anne for the weekend. Oddly enough, pre-teen girls apparently prefer these sorts of movies to the Alien<\/i> quadrilogy. Who knew?]<\/li>\n