December 7, 2010

"Never return what you've stolen.  People will know that you stole it!"--South Pacific

    The other night I dreamed of finding some rare Rip Kirby Sundays in my comic-strip collection. (Rare, indeed:  Rip Kirby was actually a daily strip only!)

    Went shopping. (I wore my winter boots for the first time this season.)

    Saw the DVD of the Mission:  Impossible episode where they faked a fountain of youth (which I saw at the time).

    Dinner was curried shrimps.

    Joined the Classical Music Meetup at Bill's condo party room and saw the DVD of Joshua Logan's movie of the famous Rodgers & Hammerstein musical South Pacific.  Kinda pedestrian.

December 5, 2010

Dreamed of watching the movie This Boy's Life on DVD; switching to the extras after reaching the scene where Robert de Niro gives Leo di Caprio a beating; being in Great Britain and not knowing when I was going to return home; wishing my Ph.D. thesis hadn't been a dead end; finding some DVDs from zip.ca that we hadn't seen, which got packed away.

    Last night I went to the Classical Music Meetup Christmas party. (I baked some gingerbread for it.) Some people from the Guitar Society of Toronto performed for us.

    Met Evghenia and Dave (from the Aspergers Meetup) at the latter's place on Ellsworth Avenue to play The Amazeing Labyrinth. (We played five games!

    Hope I'm not getting a cold...

    Dinner was stir-fry.

     

November 30, 2011

Rhoda's mother: "Can I ask you something?"

"What?"

"Don't go up there!"

--Rhoda

    Dreamed of reaching the end of my diary volume; Sammy Davis Jr. ordering cocktails but skipping the vodka martini.

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was samosas.

    Went to the last opera rehearsal before the new year.  I have my parts largely memorized.

November 29, 2010

Brenda: "Lenny, you promised no toe talk in front of strangers!"--Rhoda

    Dreamed of preparing to fly to Los Angeles; a tycoon's hard-pressed secretary about to give him a piece of her mind just as a group of old classmates came to visit.

    Dinner was tuna casserole. (Father tried a new recipe.)

    At choir practice we went through the Christmas program in order.

November 28, 2010

    Performed in the Toronto City Opera fundraiser, for which I'd baked gingerbread.  To my surprise, almost all the food got eaten and there were no leftovers to take home!

    John and Kathrine came over for dinner, which was Indian food. (But we forgot to make rice!)

November 27, 2010

    Dreamed of procrastinating in April; a skit on the children's TV show The Electric Company that culminated in an armed robbery.

    Snow on the ground this morning!

    Had lunch at What a Bagel with the Introvert Meetup. (I ordered a Swiss cheese omelet.)

    Dinner was McDonald's.

    Went to karaoke at Barplus again, this time with another Introvert Meetup.

November 26, 2016

    Dreamed of the top part of my penis falling off; the Mark Twain novel The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.

    Baked multigrain bread.

    Headache!

    Dinner was roast chicken.

    Baked gingerbread for Sunday's Toronto City Opera fundraiser. (For some reason it fell after I took it out!)