May 7, 2003

Got up at 9:30.

Dreamed of being in a cynical comedy with Richard Gere (like Chicago), realizing I was going to be the butt of the humor, and trying to leave before the ending; meeting two women (one in military uniform) and trying to draw them into a menage a trois.

Had a dance lesson with Dawn.  She's really pleased with my progress.  On the way home, I picked up the molasses.

Dinner was salmon.

Another drama class.  I went through the Bethune monologue quite a few times, but only the first time from memory.  I did the Enchanted scene with the teacher, Liz, because Danielle wasn't there.  People say I'm very good. (Tijuana was with me in the beginner course and says she's impressed with how much I've grown.) I'm getting to enjoy that Rob and Tijuana scene from Otherwise Engaged with repeated viewings.  Two other students performed a scene from Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady. ("If you don't give a crap, I don't give a crap." "Hey, watch your goddamned language!")

May 6, 2003

Dreamed of the tidal dam outside Sackville, N.B.; a subway stop in Sackville (?); an adventure inside a haunted house.

Got up at 7:28.

Showed Dr. Hassan the photograph of me dancing with Cynthia.

Went shopping.  Forgot to get molasses.

Baked multigrain bread.

Cleaned the windows in my room, which took a while.  The nerve-racking part is making sure you don't put them back in the wrong way.

Dinner was roast chicken.

Finished memorizing my Bethune monologue.  It's quite a challenge.

Went to the Fossil & Haggis karaoke.  There's a smaller crowd now that the students have gone home, and I had time to sing three songs: "Hey Jude," "Memories Are Made of This," and "Can't Help Falling in Love." 

Jim sang a couple of Springsteen songs, and two people did a duet of the Grease song "Summer Nights," with the line "I wonder what she's doing now" having "what" changed to "who"! Someone sang "White Rabbit," and "The Red Queen's off with your head" became "The Red Queen's giving me head"!

Forgot to shave till I came home from karaoke.

May 5, 2003

Got up at 9:22.

Dreamed of finding a coded message in a New York Times Sunday Magazine article with the key that the first word began with "A," the second with "B," etc.

Hoed the garden in the morning.  I'm glad I got it done then because it poured rain in the afternoon.

Another dance lesson.  We almost have the rumba routine down pat, and we've put the swing routine together.  At one point I pulled Cynthia too hard, which shows I'm getting strong arms.

Dinner was lasagna.

Finished printing out this diary's March entries.

May 4, 2003

Dreamed of finding a bathtub in a house near our Sackville cottage; meeting a man with a dog brain-damaged in the back of his head; the movie The Great Race, which I saw when I was four; Shelley hosting a waterfront screening of The Scorpion King.

Got up at 10:56.

We drove down to Humber Bay Park.  People were racing remote-controlled boats.

Finished the spading.  Next comes the hoeing.

Donald, John and Rae came over for dinner, which was roast beef and macaroni.

Saw the Sopranos episode where Tony wouldn't invite Ralph to Thanksgiving dinner.

Memorized the first half of my Bethune monologue.

May 3, 2003

Got up at 9:57.

Started spading the garden.

Dinner was McDonald's.

Went to a Mensa games night.  I played a game of Upwords in which I was stuck with a surfeit of consonants for almost the whole game.  Then I played Balderdash, in which people make up fake definitions for a word, then guess the real one.  It was pretty fun.

May 2, 2003

Dreamed of a piano book from the time when I played the piano; visiting my parents at a hotel; going to return some videos; noticing they were on the watch for counterfeit currency.

Got up at 8:36.

Father and I went to Canadian Tire and bought a new shovel and a spatula.

Finished shovelling the garden.  Spading it with the fork comes next.

Dinner was pork chops.

Moira bought the first issue of Radar magazine, with its list of loathsome celebrities.  Pretty mean.

Sergei taught a swing class with new stuff like the throwaway.  Lisa led a new samba line dance.

May 1, 2003

Dreamed of downloading a page with an ad for the musical Annie; meeting some of Rae's pre-adolescent girlfriends in Sydney, N.S.; going out on the streetcar to a British movie wearing a bathing suit; a magic well; being pursued by a large airborne object.

Got up at 10:17.

Started typing out the diary entries for March.  Finally got started with shovelling the garden.  After adding on the bottom layer from the compost (I think the smell is still faintly on me), I came back and spread on a layer of peat moss.  Of course, it'll still have to be dug in.

Baked brown bread.

Dinner was roast chicken.

Went to see Leo McCarey's The Milky Way, with Harold Lloyd, at the Cinematheque.  It was one of his few sound movies, and pretty funny. (It's about a milkman who gets packaged as a champion boxer.) [The host mentioned that we're lucky we can see it today, because when Samuel Goldwyn remade it a decade later as the Danny Kaye vehicle The Kid From Brooklyn he bought up and destroyed every print he could find!]

I also saw three hilarious silent shorts in which McCarey directed Laurel and Hardy.  I was also going to see McCarey's Six of a Kind, with a cast that included W.C. Fields, but the print had shrunk so much that they couldn't run it in the projector.  Oh, well.