October 23, 2010

"The doctor-major keeps trying to pump me about Birdy....  So far, he's been talking like a doctor but I'm waiting for the old military manner to strike again.  All doctors in the army ought to be privates"--Birdy

    Saw the cinemacast of the Met production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.  It's one-of-a-kind powerful, of course. (The Holy Fool had a Dostoyevskian look.) It started at noon and I barely made it in time, thanks to Father driving me.

    Dinner was lasagna.

    Finished the documentary series A History of Scotland.  I would have liked more about the overseas Scots, but it's a superb, well-structured show.

    I'll be glad when Halloween is over at the Frontierville game.  When you clobber or scare a critter, you now have to scare its ghost too!