10/9/25

I am watching too many movies. I know this, but for some reason I cannot stop.

Part of my debilitating habit is out of obligation: I need to do awards voting, so it’s sort of an occupational hazard. Also, if I see a small movie that I think I can make time for, I do try to catch up to it. But I think I need to slow down soon. Maybe in November I’ll take a brief break and work on other things, or maybe even *gasp* do nothing.

I’m not complaining. I prefer to be busy than to have nothing to do, but this is always the hardest time of the year, mostly because I get very little time to watch, read, and listen to what I actually want to listen to. Watching enough movies for awards voting takes its own kind of discipline. You know you need to watch x amount of movies if you’re going to fulfill your commitments.

Then again, being this deep in awards voting allows me to disassociate a bit from current events.

Right now, like the rest of the country, Chicago is under threat. ICE is roving around the city attacking residents at will, particularly on the south side of the city where