August 29, 2011

Boarding school survivor: "People wonder how Hitler got millions of followers.  I never have"--Flirting

    Dreamed of fooling with a jigsaw puzzle only to find that it was two puzzles (the same picture with different cuts); the actual Casablanca line 

"If that plane takes off and you're not on it, you'll regret it.  Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life"; 

thinking that she would have regretted it.

    Dinner was teriyaki chicken (and another apple pie Moira baked).

    Saw the DVD of John Duigan's Flirting, an appealing story of romance at Australian boarding schools.

    Headache!

August 28, 2011

"Doctor, that patient's a prisoner of war!"

"So are you, sweetheart, you just don't know it yet."

--M*A*S*H

    Dreamed of the actual quote that British soldiers in World War I were "lions led by donkeys"; a tape recording of a Latin lesson.

    Saw Robert Altman's movie of M*A*S*H (for the third time, but the first on a big screen) at the Scotiabank with the Movie Meetup group.  It's one of the only movies to capture the craziness that's part of war, but it's pretty dated. (The scene where a showering Hot Lips gets exposed to the whole base is cruel and unfunny.)

    Dinner was the rest of the Indian food we had yesterday.

    Went to a Classical Music Meetup at the Mad Bean Coffee House.  A violin maker and a violin player talked about violins.

August 26, 2011

    Dreamed of composing a painting of Spartacus describing Mount Everest to a group of slaves.

    Baked whole wheat bread.

    Went to Beguiling in Mirvish Village and bought some comic strip reprints, including the first years of Rip Kirby (the coolest guy in the world when I was 11 or 12!).

    Dinner was spaghetti.

August 25, 2011

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was salmon.

    Went on a Queen Street art walk and visited a couple of galleries and a boutique called Art 47.

    Got my new iron pills at Shoppers Drug Mart.

August 24, 2011

    I was going to meet the Asperger's group for lunch at Chipotle, but I couldn't find them.

    John and Kathrine brought dinner over.  Once again, I sneaked out to KFC afterward.

    Posted a YouTube clip of Danny Kaye singing "Inchworm" in Hans Christian Andersen, on the Asperger group's Facebook page. (The song reminds me of Asperger's Syndrome.)

August 23, 2011

    Yesterday I went to a welfare office near Yonge & Eglinton and they gave me a phone number to call to start the process of getting onto Ontario Disability Support Payments. [I have Asperger's Syndrome.]

    Today I had my appointment with Dr. Scholzberg, the haematologist at St. Michael's Hospital. (I was late, but still ended up cooling my heels for a while.) She prescribed a new kind of iron pill for me.

    Dinner was roast pork. (Moira baked a pie with some of the apples we picked last week.)

August 21, 2011

    Went to a Classical Music Meetup event:  a chamber music concert at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.  The group performed string quartets by Mozart and Dvorak.  The weather started out fine, but during the intermission we hurried from the outdoor marquee to an indoor chapel, and barely escaped a downpour complete with thunder!

    The rain largely ended before the concert did, so we made a pilgrimage to pianist Glenn Gould's grave. (The cemetery people drove us there in a couple of CNE-like minibuses.) We saw a deer in a wooded area!  I'd borrowed an illustrated guide to the place from the library, but didn't get around to doing much exploring.

    Dinner was African stew.

    In the Kingdoms of Camelot computer game, the leader of our alliance has set up a city for collecting resources, so I've started sending my huge reserves there.