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.)

May 30, 2011

    Dreamed of being introduced to scuba diving in the Pacific Ocean; walking on a semi-outdoor trail south of Amherst, N.S.; waking up in a car driving eastward on the Trans-Canada Highway in western New Brunswick toward dawn.

    Dinner was pork steak.

    At choir practice we went through all of Nabucco.

May 29, 2011

    Dreamed of a squadron of cavalry horses on the Titanic.

    Went to a Games Meetup at the Yellow Griffin.  I played Guillotine and Seven Wonders. (Still can't figure Seven Wonders out...)

    Dinner was sausage and mashed potatoes.

May 28, 2011

    Open Doors Toronto weekend!  I visited the St. James Cathedral bell tower (I was hoping to meet some of the Classical Music Meetup people, but didn't); the King Edward Hotel's unrestored but historic top-floor ballroom; Hotel Victoria; the Church of the Holy Trinity (I walked along the nearby Trinity Square maze); and the Gilbert Studio (where I saw a darkroom demonstration).

    Dinner was the rest of the Chinese food.

    We started looking at the DVD of David Starkey's documentary Monarchy, about the kings of England.  The first disc wouldn't play, so we started with the second. (It's sixteen hours long, and it's due back at the library in a week.)

    Went to a Karaoke Meetup at TKO's, near Coxwell Station.  I sang "Hold Me Now" and "Sway."

May 27, 2011

    Dreamed of showering in the back yard of my old home in Sackville, N.B. through a hole in the garden hose; the cuff on my pants getting undone; visiting a junior high school locker room; looking off a cliff to some nearby islands that turned out to be a lot closer than I thought.

    Sent an email to Henson Trust Associates inquiring about propert arrangements before applying to the Ontario Disability Supports Program.

    Dinner was Chinese food.

    Went to the Trash Palace's latest classroom film show.  Their longest film was a 1979 evangelical production Cult Explosion. I won a free DVD of classroom films in a raffle.  At the end they said the Trash Palace in its current form is ending after this summer.