Dreamed of walking on the Trans-Canada Trail near Moncton; walking up to what seemed to be a steep cliff but turned out to be a gentler slope; being in a movie with a Brat Pack actress.
Went shopping.
Dinner was grilled pork steak. (Moira baked another fine apple pie.)
At opera rehearsal we did the Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly. (I have the first half ot our Die Fledermaus part memorized!)
"Games are something we've made up to help us forget we've forgotten how to play"--Birdy
Dreamed of reflecting on how I've always disapproved of the Canadian government applying the War Measures Act in 1970.
We dropped off some old computers at a recycling place on Jane Street.
Finished spading the garden before winter. (I also pruned the plum tree. Hey, that's a pun!)
Dinner was beef stroganoff.
At choir practice we had a substitute pianist who didn't know the score quite as well as Adolfo does. I decided to get tickets for the family to see the Friday Lucia di Lamermoor performance. (John might want to come over Sunday.) Parts of the mad scene have been going through my head.
"Before you know it, if you're not careful, you can get to feeling sorry for everybody and there's nobody left to hate"--Birdy
First snow of the season! I took out my long johns.
Went to a Games Meetup at the Foxes Den. I played Archaeology and Smallworld. (The latter game I played in the expanded version for the first time, but didn't try any of the new races or powers; just commando skeletons, berserk ratmen and alchemist tritons. I won!)
John and Kathrine came over for dinner, which was Indian food.
Finally saw Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the Underground. (Dion Conflict introduced it.) Gothic corn, stylish and disturbing. Afterward I bought some TV kitsch DVDs from DC.
Read over 60 pages of Birdy!
"Hell, no good psychiatrist would be working for the stinking army. If he were even average, he'd be in the air corps"--Birdy
Dreamed of being the US president inside the White House; the TV show The Waltons; the Shakespeare line "The evil that me do outlives them"; the votes being counted at a Presidential nomination convention.
Went to a nearby Aspergers Meetup (the Tim Horton's at Vaughan & St. Clair). We ate some Halloween candy.
Dinner was grilled chicken.
Went to a Games Meetup. I played rummy, Monopoly and The Amazeing Labyrinth.
"Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say.... Sometimes, somebody'll get like they're listening, but they're only waiting back in their minds for you to say something, something they can jump on or kick off on themselves"--Birdy
Dreamed of the cinema in my hometown Sackville, N.B. showing a series of movies of W. Somerset Maugham's writing; a reprint of New York Times crossword puzzles from 1974.
Former Maclean's magazine editor Peter C. Newman bought a book from us! (It's Thomas Raddall's The Paths of Destiny.) I got a glimpse of him when he picked it up.
Dinner was McDonald's.
We did an extra choir rehearsal to make up for Thanksgiving week. After going through Lucia di Lamermoor, we started on the Christmas songs.
Dreamed of a big diagram of a cake filled with ice cream showing the ingredients in each part.
Dinner was frozen fish.
Saw the first episode of the DVD of the documentary King Arthur's Britain.
"Birdy never was dumb, most thing he did made sense in a special kind of way. I'm still not sure about this crazy business either. What's crazy? Wars are crazy for sure"--Birdy
"It's the first time Birdy and I really begin to learn something of what a mean shitty world it is"--ibid.
I gave in and spent real money to buy some horseshoe currency in the online game Frontierville, something I never expected to do.
Baked raisin bread.
Dinner was ham quiche.
Went to a Games Meetup at Snakes and Lattes. I poayed Scrabble (which I won by a street) and Taboo.
