Got up at 9:25.
Dreamed of looking into the back yard of our Sackville house in the winter and seeing a black eagle eating a bird, and a bear; attending an evening class, like the copy editing course, and asking the teacher the difference between manse, parsonage and rectory. (According to my dictionary, though they're often interchangeable, an American manse can be a Presbyterian minister's residence, a parsonage its Methodist equivalent, a rectory its Anglican equivalent.)
Today we put on the air conditioning for the first time.
We picked up a new thermostat at Home Depot.
Went to the Folly Kids store and bought the new Harry Potter book [the fifth].
Dinner was fettucine alfredo, which I cooked. I used shredded mozarella instead of grated parmesan.
Looked at Robert Kaplan's Atlantic Monthly article on how to manage the American empire. It was semi-educated ("emulate Second-Century Rome") and wrongheaded, e.g. its insistence that the world would be "infinitely worse" under United Nations management because the UN "worships peace and consensus" above all. I was especially amused by his apologies for the School of the Americas [where they trained murderous Central American soldiers]. Neo-liberal wishful thinking.
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