October 21, 2011

"Mom, you remember Roger Garfield."
"And Pearl Harbor."

--Murder One

Diane: "I can no longer hold my tongue."

Carla: "Want me to do it for you?"

--Cheers!

Coach (on Sam): "He was a great drunk!"--ibid.

    Dreamed of going to a Meetup where we played a game like Risk, but I couldn't quite figure it out; the host accusing me of rudeness, and me criticizing him too; becoming a half-witted character in a Victorian murder mystery.

    Baked rye bread. (I had to get rye flour at John Vince the night before.)

    Dinner was shrimp fettucine.

    Saw the DVD of the first episode of the second season of Murder One.  This season looks a bit more conventional than the first.

    Saw the DVD of the first episodes of Cheers!  It's still pretty funny.

October 20, 2011

    Lay awake in bed for hours. (At such times I think about everything that makes me angry.)

    When I finally got to sleep, I ended up having an unusually relentless nightmare, in which I was travelling down the St. Lawrence River with family members, we were arguing a lot, and I ended up in an out-of-control episode of The Simpsons (about a family vacation) involving jokes about polls, being on a roller coaster, and being nibbled with teeth and poked with needles in the nether regions when I closed my eyes. (Such nightmares usually wake me up, but not this time.  Should I see a doctor?)

    Went shopping.

    Headache!

    Dinner was roast chicken. 

    Started a new DVD of Popeye cartoons.

October 19, 2011

"I'm a big girl!"

"Yes... and in all the right places too!"

--North by Northwest

"Are you the gentlemen who want to murder my son?"--ibid.

    Dreamed of a comedy about a small group of cardsharp grifters always on the move; one of them sneaking into a fancy gentlemen's club and signing the guestbook with "Yog, Monster From Outer Space" (an actual Japanese movie title); a space station; Alfred Hitchcock's line "Some directors' movies are slices of life.  Mine are slices of cake."

    Headache.

    Dinner was salmon.

    Saw Hitchcock's North by Northwest yet again, at the Scotiabank with the Movie Meetup group.  What a glorious slice of cake it is!

October 18, 2011

    Dreamed of having a big pile of laundry to do while on vacation; scrubbing the bathroom floor in our old house in Sackville, N.B., and finding a deep layer of dirt; a deep snowstorm; a deer on the sidewalk of York Street in Sackville.

    Dinner was pork roast.

    I had to leave opera rehearsal early because I wasn't feeling well. (It might have been the pork roast.)

October 17, 2011

    Dreamed of waking up at 17:00 and realizing I was going to be late for opera rehearsal.

    Dinner was the rest of the lasagna.

    At choir practice we rehearsed Norma and got to "Casta Diva."

October 16, 2011

    Dreamed of getting to read someone else's almost-finished Ph.D. dissertation; a long, controversial 19th-century French novel turned into an expensive, unreleased movie; writing on confetti.

    The cold weather's arrived!

    Went to a new Classical Music Singles Meetup organized by Mia.  Seems that Mary's group gave her some trouble, so she's discontinuing the group as a Meetup. (I encouraged her to start a Facebook group.) I had a Very Berry crepe.  They were disorganized and we had a long wait before breing served.

    Dinner was lasagna.

    I've been enjoying the City of Wonder game, but now I can't load it!

October 15, 2011

    Dreamed of trying to play a tenor saxophone. (I briefly played an alto sax in my youth.)

    Went out and bought a new watch at Zeller's, along with a new pair of pants.

    Dinner was butter chicken.

    Went to Beatrice and Adolfo's concert at Blythwood Baptist Church. [She sang and he accompanied her.] It was mostly jazz and ragtime, and pretty fun. (Giovanni gave me a lift home.)