Is it just me, or does R.E.M.'s "Bang and Blame" sound like exactly the same song as "Losing My Religion," but with different lyrics?

Anyway.

I'm taking tomorrow off. Call it a mental health day. We didn't get MLK day off and I'm in severe need of a long weekend. I'm planning to spend the day working on my manuscript, but then I haven't been sticking to my plans much lately, so we'll see.

I found out last night that Matt Ashford and Melissa Reeves have both returned to Days of Our Lives as Jack & Jennifer, respectively, and I cannot express the thrill I felt at seeing Matt-as-Jack again. Jack & Jennifer were the Spike & Buffy of my high school years. I stopped watching that show when they left and were replaced by different actors. Now that I know they're back, I'm going to have to fight the urge to watch DoOL tomorrow (I also have to fight the urge to watch Passions to find out who this Timmy is that Spike's always so concerned about).

Once I start watching daytime television, it's all over. You can count on my not getting anything done for the rest of the day if I so much as check to see who the guests will be on Regis. So I'll do my best to write and be productive and ignore the siren call of daytime television, but my will is weak.

I probably won't get online any this weekend. If I owe you e-mail, I'm sorry. Answering e-mail feels like an impossible chore right now. I'll do my best to write next week when things are better.

I'll probably go see Shadow of the Vampire at some point this weekend, since I love John Malkovich, and I love Nosferatu, and I dig campy vampire drama, and by the looks of things this has all three. So look for some kind of review on that come Monday.