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sports, weekend, and randomness
Oct. 22nd, 2007 11:43 amBaseball: yay. (I’m largely indifferent to baseball results, which is practically a travesty in this city.)
Football: yay! (Enough with the perpetual hype about the invincible Peyton Manning.)
Weekend: Good weekend. On Saturday I found a really good pumpkin for carving next weekend and hung around with people and went on a minor expedition out Concord way for no particular reason, and came home and found My Fair Lady on one of the old-movie channels I seem to get these days, so stayed up late watching that. I hadn’t seen it in years, and I forgot the couple of places where they really hit you upside the head with Pygmalion references.
On Sunday I ended up back at Wilson Farms again for my semiannual overindulgence in vegetables, demonstrated what the big deal is about cider donuts (they’re best when they’re warm), discovered (a) that Penzey’s is open on Sundays and (b) that Penzey’s is a place I should remember, bought about six kinds of spices that inspired various thoughts about cooking, filled up my sinuses with one spice blend I really didn’t like (which then made everything after it smell funny), came home and found The King and I on a different old-movie channel and watched that (the other old-movie channel was playing From Here to Eternity; I guess it was a tribute weekend since Deborah Kerr died last week).
This morning I had a terrible time getting going. The bus waited for me to run down the block, partly due to the traffic light and partly due to the two other people who were also running for the bus from different directions than I was. Just after Washington Square, we hit the aftermath of a fire truck blocking traffic in Brookline Village, and it took 15 minutes longer than usual to get to work.
I’m starting my annual resentment of the fact that it gets dark at dinnertime. My natural inclination is to stay up late and sleep late, but I also like daylight.
Random thought: why isn’t “intensive” the opposite of “extensive”? [ETA: I suppose it is, if you think in terms of college courses. You can take an intensive course, or extensive regular courses.]
Football: yay! (Enough with the perpetual hype about the invincible Peyton Manning.)
Weekend: Good weekend. On Saturday I found a really good pumpkin for carving next weekend and hung around with people and went on a minor expedition out Concord way for no particular reason, and came home and found My Fair Lady on one of the old-movie channels I seem to get these days, so stayed up late watching that. I hadn’t seen it in years, and I forgot the couple of places where they really hit you upside the head with Pygmalion references.
On Sunday I ended up back at Wilson Farms again for my semiannual overindulgence in vegetables, demonstrated what the big deal is about cider donuts (they’re best when they’re warm), discovered (a) that Penzey’s is open on Sundays and (b) that Penzey’s is a place I should remember, bought about six kinds of spices that inspired various thoughts about cooking, filled up my sinuses with one spice blend I really didn’t like (which then made everything after it smell funny), came home and found The King and I on a different old-movie channel and watched that (the other old-movie channel was playing From Here to Eternity; I guess it was a tribute weekend since Deborah Kerr died last week).
This morning I had a terrible time getting going. The bus waited for me to run down the block, partly due to the traffic light and partly due to the two other people who were also running for the bus from different directions than I was. Just after Washington Square, we hit the aftermath of a fire truck blocking traffic in Brookline Village, and it took 15 minutes longer than usual to get to work.
I’m starting my annual resentment of the fact that it gets dark at dinnertime. My natural inclination is to stay up late and sleep late, but I also like daylight.
Random thought: why isn’t “intensive” the opposite of “extensive”? [ETA: I suppose it is, if you think in terms of college courses. You can take an intensive course, or extensive regular courses.]
