September 11, 2010

    Dreamed of coming to Ottawa as a newly elected MP in a by-election; sitting with a committee, getting sleepy and worrying that the camera caught me dozing; saying that I felt like I was in a dream and wondering if I was about to wake up.

    Went to see the live cinemacast of Last Night at the Proms at the Yong & Eglinton with the Classical Music Meetup.  This time we found seats close to the back. (I was afraid I'd have to sit further back than the rest of the group.) I didn't get a headache and managed to stay for the whole concert!

    Dinner was turkey pie.

    Rented the DVD of Great Expectations (yet again).  It's a real classic, one of Dickens' best books turned into one of David Lean's best movies.

    Finished the sports issue of Lapham's Quarterly, so I'm finally up to date with no backlog! (Later I renewed my subscription online.

September 10, 2010

"If I had my way, no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine"--H.L. Mencken (quoted in Lapham's Quarterly)

    Dreamed of a map of Alberta showing its rivers and watersheds; the Toto song "Rosanna"; a jigsaw puzzle with pieces the size of my hand. (I've been doing some online jigsaw puzzles.)

    Dinner was frozen Indian food.

    Went to Mary's games night.  I played Ticket to Ride and The Amazeing Labyrinth. (In the latter game I had a big lead at first, but lost the endgame.)

September 9, 2010

Singles bar talk: "How's your work?" "It pays." "Good.  Then we won't have to talk about it."

--Life During Wartime

Boy to his mother (after finding out she lied to him about his father being dead): "Fuck you, bitch!"--ibid.

"Can you forget and not forgive?"--ibid.

"China is the future.  We're finished.  It's a matter of time"--ibid.

    Dreamed of the German movie Effi Briest; meeting H.G. Wells.

    Dinner was salmon.

    Saw Todd Solondz' Life During Wartime at the Cumberland. (It's a sequel to his Happiness, but with all the roles recast!) Solondz makes geek movies, and his world is disquieting but oddly believable.

September 8, 2010

    Baked rye bread.

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was turkey pie.

    Went to the Games Meetup.  I played The Amazeing Labyrinth (twice) and Smallworld, where my races were berserk halflings and fortified tritons.  Someone brought a game he'd created on his own, involving Marvel Comics superheroes and supervillains, but it was too complicated for me.

September 7, 2010

"Who are you?"

"I'm nobody..."

--The Jewel in the Crown

"We're fighting because you're a moron.  That's why we're fighting!"--Curb Your Enthusiasm

    Dreamed of the 1978 movie of Harold Robbins' potboiler The Betsy (which I haven't seen); visiting a museum with exhibits about the French Revolution.

    Got my hair cut at the Hungarian place.

    Went to the Sheppard Grande and bought tickets for six upcoming Metropolitan Opera cinemacasts.

    Dinner was felafels.

    Saw the DVD of the first episode of The Jewel in the Crown (for the third time). Unusually intelligent.

    Then we saw the DVD of the first episodes of the latest season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.  What an antihero!

September 6, 2010

    Dreamed of having my own apartment in Halifax.

    I was going to go to the CNE with the Aspergers Meetup, but they changed the meeting time from noon to 11:00, and that was too early for me.

    Dinner was turkey.

    Saw the DVD of Paul Cox' The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, documenting his slide into insanity.

    I've broken 50,000 a few times in the Train video game! [I also figured out how to put the train on a closed loop and get an infinite score...]

September 5, 2010

    Dreamed of seeing a movie that combined Ghost with The Sixth Sense; a DVD with a menu so huge that I couldn't figure out where to start it.

    Went to a Walking Meetup.  We walked around the Music Garden and the Irish Memorial and saw some of the CNE air show.

    Dinner was leftover fettucine and lasagna (which we'd had in the freezer!).