Dreamed of watching the Kids in the Hall perform in person; saying I didn't like their comedy, and becoming the butt of their slapstick jokes. (I actually haven't watched them much.)
Dinner was lamb stew.
We rehearsed The Marriage of Figaro. Gerald's surtitles include lines like "Traitors, I'll punish you to the max!" Britney is really funny as Cherubino.
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!
Dreamed of a non-existent thriller subplot in the Marx Brothers comedy A Night at the Opera involving a wife killing her husband.
Dinner was the rest off the churrasco chicken.
At choir practice we started learning Il Trovatore for our spring concert. First we had a discussion about the choir's future. (Tony Fusco didn't show up.) I ended up joining an incipient committee.
Dreamed of reading that someone had published background stories about all the supporting characters in the Hitchcock thriller The Lady Vanishes; recalling the 1986 version of The Fly and wondering why someone as gorgeous as Geena Davis would get into a relationship with someone as creepy as Jeff Goldblum; a mine becoming a deep hiding place for refugees in France during the Nazi occupation.
Went to another Games Meetup at Foxes Den. This time I played Kingsburg and Ticket to Ride. (It was the first time playing the North American version of Ticket to Ride that I completed all my tickets!)
Donald came over for dinner, which was churrasco chicken.
Someone from the Aspergers Meetup emailed me a link to an old computer game called Train, which involves laying track so a train can have a complete path from a starting point to a finishing point. (My game The Amazeing Labyrinth reminded her of it.) It's as addictive as she says! [I eventually learned to put the train on a closed loop where it can go around forever and accumulate an infinite number of points...]
Dreamed of seeing a New York City parade that went on for days; filling out a form on web searches showing their advantages and disadvantages, and under one image search putting "Shows images," under both "Advantages" and "Disadvantages."
Went to a Games Meetup at the Ryerson Student Centre, where I played Ticket to Ride and Puerto Rico. In the former game, If I'd just completed the Las Vegas to San Francisco link I'd have scored 146 points, but time ran out and I only got 60.
Dinner was a rice and beef recipe that Moira made.
Went to a Classical Music Meetup and heard a musicologist's lecture about Mozart and his piano concerti. (My streetcar took forever to arrive so I was was late.)
Dreamed of a movie where Owen and Luke Wilson's food supply business was endangered by people bullying Luke; sending our piano's damper pedal out for repairs.
Today I remembered to cook the fettucine alfredo, which was our dinner.
Started reading the essays at the end of the Lapham's Quarterly medicine issue.
Saw Crazy Heart at the Varsity with the Movie Meetup. Quite good.
"The reputation of the just alone shall be immortal among gods and men"--Greek saying
Baked rye bread.
I was going to cook fettucine alfredo for dinner, but I was working on learning Greek and lost track of the time. (Mother says I get my one-track mind from her!) We ate KFC instead.
Finished Seven Years in Tibet. (Now I want to see both the movie version and Kundun again.)
We had a Marriage of Figaro rehearsal on Thursday instead of Wednesday, because Beatrice and several others were in the Coro Verdi concert last night. I was disappointed that I had to miss a Movie Meetup where they saw Creation, but I did get to see parts that the chorus isn't in.
