It’s getting past time to recap my Thanksgiving weekend. I was off for five days, the longest vacation from work I’d had in a long time, and on Sunday night I was feeling something I hadn’t felt in a long time – sad. Sad to be going back to work the next day. (Fortunately I bounced back Monday morning.)

Wednesday afternoon, as I’ve said, we saw The Odd Couple.

Wednesday night I went out to dinner with Matt P. and his boyfriend Marc, then had drinks at their apartment.

Thursday morning we fast-TiVo’d through the Thanksgiving Day parade (the M&M-balloon debacle bumped off the scheduled pre-taped performance from Wicked on CBS).

Thursday afternoon we made trips to K-Mart and the Astor Place wine shop before heading over to Port Authority, where the DeCamp bus area was so crowded that we had to stand on the bus ride to New Jersey. Once there, we had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, mainly cooked by my mom.

Friday afternoon we saw Rent, the movie. I missed “Today 4 U” because I had to step out and use the bathroom. I wasn’t too impressed with the movie; what annoyed me more than anything else was that certain lines that are sung during the musical were spoken in the movie, for no apparent reason. Also, nearly nine years after seeing the Broadway show, I realize how dumb the plot is. And what was with “Take Me or Leave Me” being sung at an engagement party? Why do people who adapt other people’s work feel the need to change things that don’t need to be changed? Despite generally being annoyed at the change, though, I did think the scene was cute. And I’m still in love with Anthony Rapp, and Adam Pascal looked kinda sexy.

Friday night I went out for drinks in Chelsea with my friend JP and his friend Duke. It had been ages since I’d last been out in Chelsea. I met them at Gym and we eventually went to G. After we parted ways, I walked home. I took great pleasure that I live close enough to Chelsea that I can walk home from there. I’ve officially been a New Yorker for five months, but I still don’t think it’s totally hit me yet.

Saturday I stayed in (Matt actually had to convince me that it’s okay to do nothing on vacation) and watched about five hours of classic Days of our Lives episodes on SoapNet featuring Bo & Hope. Matt alternately peppered me with questions about various characters and silently made fun of me. But for me it was a real treat to see characters and hear incidental music that I hadn’t heard since the mid-80s.

Early Saturday evening I had dinner with Jon, who happened to be in the neighborhood. Later that night Matt and I went out to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with Jon, JP, Michael and Andy. It was my first Harry Potter movie (I’d read the first book several years ago but that was it). I enjoyed it. Rupert Grint is cute. So is Robert Pattinson. And Daniel Radcliffe has developed nicely. Three words: hot tub scene, which simultaneously left me aroused and disturbed. (Uh, he’s only 16!)

Afterwards, we went to XES for drinks.

Sunday I started out bored but at some point decided to finally watch some of the features on the two Return of the King appendix DVDs (I’ve only had them laying around for a year). Then I re-watched the first hour or so of the movie itself, trying to fight off end-of-vacation sadness. Then Desperate Housewives, more movie, some reading, and bed.

And now: only about 52 hours until we leave for Montreal!