February 2, 2010

    Dreamed of an actual 1979 Charles Addams cover of The New Yorker showing the many residents of a farm, all staring; thinking that I might as well quite my Ph.D. program because I hadn't worked on my thesis for years (only to wake up and remember that I did finish it a decade since).

    Went to the Bickford Centre in the morning and helped Barbara and Gerald unload the opera costumes. (Part of one costume is a four-in-hand tie, so I'll have to get a black clip-on since I can't remember how to tied that knot!)

    Went shopping.  We looked around Dufferin Mall but couldn't find that black clip-on tie. (Walmart now has escalators for shopping carts!)

    Dinner was spaghetti.

    I waited 20 minutes for the bus.  But it didn't matter because opera rehearsal started late, what with everyone trying out their costumes. (I'd done that earlier.) We did Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.  The Bell Chorus from Pag is still giving us trouble.  We went till past 23:00!