So I’m taking the whole week off from work. I’d been looking forward to relaxing and doing fun things and so on. But now I feel like the time is just slipping away. My ambitions never seem to match reality. I still have four and a half days left, but I’m not sure where the first six and half have gone. I’m sure that by the end, though, I’ll look back and appreciate having had time to do nothing.

I’ve been sleeping horribly, though. The last few mornings, I’ve been waking up at around 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. and tossing and turning for three hours or so before falling back asleep. Then I finally wake up around 11 or noon but I still feel like a walking zombie. It’s been an insomniac’s vacation for me. I hope this goes away soon.

Last night we finally saw The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I read the first book years and years ago when I was a little kid, and I don’t remember anything about it except Turkish Delight. I didn’t know what Turkish Delight was at the time – I pictured it as a dish consisting of turkey and gravy, and it never occurred to me to wonder why Edmund would consider this to be his favorite dish. As of last night, I still didn’t really know what Turkish Delight was. Matt still had to explain it to me afterwards.

Anyway, I enjoyed the movie, although I liked the first half better than the second. The whole battle thing seemed to come out of nowhere for me, and while I found Lucy adorably cute and clever in the first half, she was grating on me in the second half.

Let me say, however, that I will feel less skeevy about myself once Skandar Keynes (Edmund) turns 18, for reasons I don’t care to go into.