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I got dragged to see ET as like a four-year-old -- very much against my will, and my parents bloody well knew he freaked me out and I didn't want to have to see him onscreen. (The only child movie my parents ever took me to themselves, rather than fobbing me off on a grandmother to take me, and it was so blatantly because they wanted to see it and felt like they needed a kid as a prop to explain their presence in a kids' movie.) I spent much of the movie kneeling in my chair with my back to the screen, checking the reflection in my mother's glasses to see if it was safe to turn around and peek at the screen. Nowadays I'm invariably knitting in front of whatever screen I'm in front of, and when something comes up I don't want to see, I get very focused on my work. A bit harder in a movie theater, where I can't really see my knitting, of course. (I make very sure I always have at least one plain stockinette project on the needles -- something I can do while paying very little attention, and can even do by touch in the dark -- so, yes, I knit in movie theaters. Not as conveniently as at home, though.)

Being the unashamed introvert that I am, on reflection what I'd really like to do is take off not just that Friday (giving me the option of either sleeping late after a midnight movie or just going to see it Friday afternoon when the theater is largely empty) but also that Thursday from work -- but then just stay home and watch the DVDs that afternoon and evening. (I already have both Iron Man movies and have been vaguely meaning to buy Captain America and perhaps even Thor, so.)