June 7, 2011

    Dreamed of writing a test that asked how I'd organize a protest against car dependency for maximum impact; wanting to write that I'd stage the protests near places with high traffic, but writing erratically, skipping to different pages of the test paper, changing pens and crossing out many words; driving in southwestern Ontario and seeing an explosion that seemed to be an A-bomb but turned out to be a space shuttle launch; stopping in a town called Jughead; gathering large piles of leaves.

    Baked multigrain bread.

    We went to Fiesta Gardens and bought some more seeds.

    Dinner was stir-fry (using the leftover pork).

    Moira and I bought some more seeds at Canadian Tire, near St. Clair & Keele. (She wants to plant kale this year, and we finally found some kale seeds.)

    Saw the DVD of the first episode of the Kevin Brownlow series D.W. Griffiths:  Father of Film.

June 6, 2011

    Dreamed of trying to explain the cleverness of the script for the murder mystery The Last of Sheila.

    Father and I walked to the nearby No Frills and bought some seeds for the garden.

    Finished the ditch, and started evening the garden surface with the hoe.

    Dinner was McDonald's.

    At choir practice Giuseppe was saying that we should sculpt our words, and that even when you throw your chisel it'll leave a mark!

June 5, 2011

    Dreamed of "waking up" at about 08:30, in plenty of time for today's concert. (I actually woke up at around 10:00, still in enough time.)

    Took part in a Coro Verdi concert as part of the festivities marking the sesquicentennial of Italian unification.  We sang several folk songs, along with a few opera classics.

    Dinner was pork roast.

    I've been posting a lot in a Huffington Post forum about Pentagon whistle-blower Bradley Manning. (I was this active three years ago in a form about Proposition 8 and the African-American victimology.) Some of the posters are really full of hate!  But there was one who said that the question wasn't whether Manning had the right to leak the information but whether the U.S. government had the right to keep it secret!  I fanned him and added "Couldn't have said it better."

June 4, 2011

    Dreamed of the Bergman movie Fanny and Alexander (which I have seen).

    Went to a Games Meetup at Jeffrey's townhouse.  I played 7 Wonders, Incan Gold and a new game called Betrayal at House on the Hill.  The last is a game where we're all exploring a haunted house and after a while someone goes insane and tries to kill the others with some supernatural help.  I managed to kill the traitor because I was the one with a spear and a suit of armor.

    Dinner was stir-fry.

    Saw the DVD of the first episodes of 500 Nations, a documentary series about North American Indians.

    Then I saw the DVD of the uneven Concert for Bangladesh.  Goodness knows it isn't as fun as Monterey Pop or Woodstock, but Billy Preston has a show-stopping number. (And you can't get too much of Ravi Shankar...)

June 3, 2011

"Jan, what will it be like if we can't talk to each other any more?"

"The boat is here now."

--Shame

    Dreamed of being called on to join a high school play at the last minute; riding a bicycle without a safety chain and with only one brake around the streets of my hometown Sackville, N.B.; opening a bag of jelly beans.

    Yesterday Father and I went to Scotiabank and I got an interest cheque they'd failed to send me.

    I've been redigging the ditch around the garden.

    Finished the DVD documentary series Monarchy. (Moira missed half the episodes because she can only watch for a while in the early evening before getting sleepy.)

    Dinner was shrimp curry.

    Saw the DVD of Ingmar Bergman's Shame.  A curious meditation on the debasement of humanity in wartime, it feels pretty real.

June 1, 2011

    Baked raisin bread.

    Went shopping. (We bought ice for the hot weather.)

    Dinner was KFC.

    Started the work issue of Lapham's Quarterly.

    We had an extra choir rehearsal for Sunday's concert.

May 31, 2011

 Dreamed of a non-existent Australian movie about a family leaving on an airplane, a story retold with the adults played by children, then by pet animals.

    Finished the book Empires of the World.

    Dinner was spaghetti (which I cooked).

    Finally finished forking the garden. (Rainy weather delayed me.)