October 22, 2008

For the second time, I forgot that my singing lesson was at 13:00 instead of noon!  This time I waited inside Giuseppe's house because it was cool outside.

On the way home, I bought some Cinematheque tickets and the "Il Balen de Suo Sorriso" score, which had arrived at Remenyi's. (The "Vagua Luna" score still hasn't.)

At mrcranky.com, Riding Fool changed his avatar to a Halloween pumpkin, so I posted "It's the Pumpkinification of Riding Fool!" (Coaster actually understood my reference to the Roman satire "The Pumpkinification of Claudius.")

Dinner was steak.

The opera chorus had an acting session.  We did an exercise imagining individual characters for ourselves at the start of Carmen. (I'm Ferdinand Gonzalez, a Valencian peasant who joined  the army for excitement but finds army life boring and is preparing to desert and join a smuggling band...)

Looked at another George Carlin concert DVD.

Finished and returned Freakonomics.  Enjoyable, pretty light reading.

October 21, 2008

 Went shopping on Tuesday, for a change.

I made a dessert out of a pureed squash and three of our remaining Gravenstein apples.

Dinner was the rest of the fettucine alfredo.

First cold weather of the fall. (It looked close to snowing!)

The Carmen rehearsal was on the demoralizing side.  I was late, which I'm not usually.  The male singers are so far behind the women that it's embarrassing.  We sang "Compagnon Ecoute" and "Le Douanier" for the first time.

Father seems to have figured out what was causing the background noise on the upstairs DVD player:  a faulty surge protector(?).

October 20, 2008

 Dinner was fettucine alfredo (which I cooked).

Saw the first half of the Canadian Opera Company production of Don Giovanni. (It was a Classical Music Meetup event.) I left in the intermission because I'm going to see it agains this weekend anyway.  It was a strange production, with the minuet scene including a conga line at one point.  I liked Leporello's hopping.

October 19, 2008

Leporello after the duel: "Who got killed, you or the old man?"--Don Giovanni

"Did you ever notice that women who oppose abortion are never the sort that you'd want to fuck in the first place?"--George Carlin

Dreamed of getting up in the morning and being about to leave for school, but letting the time drag and deciding not to go because I couldn't see any point; getting involved in a deadly left vs. right struggle like the Spanish Civil War (on the left side).

Went to the Brunch Club Meetup at the 33B Bistro.  It looked expensive, and it was. (They do a big tourist trade there.)

Dinner was scalloped potatoes and ham.

Saw the DVD of a 1976 Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman star Louise Lasser.  Was she on drugs, or just weird?

Another headache.

October 18, 2008

Last night at choir practice (it was Friday instead of Monday because of Thanksgiving) we did "Din Don." I really like our song "Lu Piante de le Staggiune."

Father and I both bought mustard separately!

Saw the Doctor Who adventure "The Pirate Planet" on DVD.  Written by the famous Douglas Adams, it's the one about a hollow planet that teleports through space and surrounds other planets, which it crushes for their precious minerals.  I guessed the twist:  the nurse treating the captain turned out to be a new version of the planet's ancient queen. (Don't ask...)

Dinner Was McDonald's.

Used the vegetable chopper to puree one of the squashes from our garden.  Mother made it into an applecrisp-like dessert.

October 16, 2008

"Just because you've sold your sold to the Devil doesn't mean you need be teetotal"--The Devil and Daniel Webster

"Shall we... dance, Belle?"--ibid.

Dr. Who (using a bobby pin to open a high-tech door): "Sophisticated systems are the most vulnerable to primitive attack."

Went shopping.

Baked raisin bread.

Dinner was salmon.

Went to 2Q Video and rented William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster (for the second time). It's a classic!

Headache!

October 15, 2008

We drove out to Orchard Home Farm and picked apples.  In addition to Jonagold, Mutsu and Golden Delicious, we got some Macintoshes for Donald.

Dinner was Moira's turkey pie.

Went to the Davenport library and borrowed Freakonomics.

Went to 2Q Video and rented Sir No Sir!  It's a documentary about American soldiers who opposed the Vietnam War, a group who aren't remembered as much as they should be.