September 24, 2011

    Dreamed of changing my shirt on a bus.

    Dinner was scallops.

    Started playing a Disney game called Gnometown. (I have a soft spot for these kiddie games!)

September 23, 2011

"Why do we live in a town where the smart people have no power and the stupid people rule everything?  Maybe I should just move back to Alabama!"--The Simpsons

 Dreamed of the 1970s horror movie The House on Skull Mountain (which I've never seen).

    Father was finally up to shopping.

    Dinner was frozen Indian food.

September 22, 2011

Phyllis: "It's hard to explain to people who haven't reproduced"--The Mary Tyler Moore Show

    Dreamed of a group of romantics travelling through England in the late 18th century and being given pyrotechnic rockets by their admirers.

    Dinner was butter chicken.

September 21, 2011

    Dreamed of living in Fredericton with a group of graduate students; spotting actor Danny Aiello when he was young, in a 1970s TV show about beach bums.

    Dinner was pizza.

    I missed the first Toronto City Opera rehearsal last night (they started earlier this year), but I was sick anyway.  I can't register online because all the places are (just officially) taken.

September 20, 2011

"Wonderful news, Homer!"

"Does it involve pies?"

--The Simpsons

Lou Grant (watching TV): "Is there anything real on?  Like a western?"

--The Mary Tyler Moore Show

    Dreamed of driving toward a hellish-looking Chinese industrial area at night; a real-life version of the Acme freezer on Wile E. Coyote's back which ground ice cubes and sprayed them forth as snow for him to ski on.

    Went to St. Mike's for another appointment with Dr. Scholzberg the haematologist.  There was lots of waiting and I had a book, but my cold has me so worn out that I didn't feel like reading!

    Went to Tilley's and got a new spring-autumn hat.

    Dinner was pork roast.

September 19, 2011

"I don't want to marry her, she's my friend!"--The Lion King

    Dreamed of waking up in our old home in Sackville, N.B., and realizing I was an intruder.

    I've started playing the online Zynga game Adventure World.  It's pretty easy so far.

    Dinner was McDonald's.

    Saw Disney's The Lion King (for the first time) at the Yonge & Dundas, in 3-D.  It's pretty good, an efficient story handsomely drawn and well voiced.

    Finally activated my new Visa card. (It was misplaced earlier, but we managed to find it.)

September 18, 2011

"What do you want?"

"I want nothing!"

"Which is precisely what you have."

--Tom and Viv

    Dreamed of telling someone living in the 1930s that W.H. Auden would call this period "a lowdown, dishonest decade"; the movie Peggy Sue Got Married.

    Father has a cold and now Moira and I have caught it! (Like in Contagion, which I saw yesterday.) I was going to attend a Games Meetup but wasn't up to it.

    Dinner was KFC.

    Saw the DVD of Tom and Viv.  T.S. Eliot (a miscast Willem Dafoe) came across as a cold fish.