Hiatus is a weird thing.  It gets looked forward to as much as Christmas, but when it arrives there is no tree with presents.  It is a little confusing going from working 60-85 hour weeks to having 60-85 extra hours of free time.

My time is being used catching up on important things: Seeing friends I’ve been neglecting for months, backing up my laptop, cleaning my closet, etc.  I’m also unashamedly catching up with unimportant things: Organizing years worth of photos, going to the beach, catching up on TV and movies, etc. sleep-sign2

That last one is a staple.  Hiatus is basically storing up sleep for the second half of our season the way a bear stores up food for hibernation.  To start out I figured I’d catch up on some TV I’ve been meaning to watch since it aired.  Dexter is up first, followed closely by Weeds.  Well I think followed closely by Weeds, if it is still good and didn’t turn south after season one.

Figured I’d try and sit through some movies too.  After recently re-watching Idoicracy (2006), seeing all Mike Judge films seemed like an easy enough list.  Then I realized all I had left was Extract (2009) which has come and gone in theaters and isn’t yet at Netflix.  Looking for another manageable canon to conquer, I landed at watching all Cohen Brothers movies.  I have enjoyed the six I’ve seen, eight more to check out.  Last night we finished number seven with Miller’s Crossing (1990) and I realized maybe I’ve seen all the good ones.  A little nervous for the rest.

However it turns out, hiatus is a time to get a lot of stuff done.  Not necessarily a time to be productive.  Enjoy.