Jul. 12th, 2009

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As far as birthday weekends go, it was a very nice one.

On Friday night I did in fact take myself out for dinner at Lineage, where I had the most expensive meal I've ever had, but it was worth it. Arugula salad, followed by sea scallops, followed by blueberry bread pudding (which arrived with a candle in it because I mentioned it was a birthday dinner).

Before I went to dinner, I went to Brookline Booksmith and bought Schott's Original Miscellany, which I've looked at in bookstores three or four times now. I love it, partly because it's so random. (Just for instance, page 81 consists of a list of decimal prefixes, a list of the 12 labors of Hercules, and a list of Santa's reindeer. You can also look up how to read cattle brands, how a symphony orchestra is arranged, the list of English monarchs from 1410-present, and the Braille alphabet.) The Original is from 2002; I looked at the 2008 version, but it's arranged by subject, and less fun.

Saturday consisted of a trip to NH, involving seeing Public Enemies in Merrimack. They got it mostly right, history-wise, but the way they handled the plot came out somewhere around pretty good. I'm glad I saw it, but I don't need to see it again. Oh well, it was a good day anyway, and I didn't have to wait at all for three of the six trains involved in getting there and back. And I got home about two minutes before it started to rain HARD, last night.

Today I should've done a lot of things I didn't do, but I didn't do anything I really shouldn't have done, so it all comes out even.
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In case of sudden discovery of grillionpede in bathtub, what you do is: you go and fetch Lily, and put her in the bathtub, and show her the grillionpede at the other end. Five minutes later she will have dispatched and eaten the grillionpede and you can wash what's left down the drain.

You do not, under any circumstances, go and fetch Snip, or you end up punctured in about twelve places.
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