Sunday Night

Can't remember what I did this week, but some highlights: eating Red Mango frozen yogurt with mango and raspberry toppings (it's creamy and mildly sweet!); seeing Deerhoof at Le Poisson Rouge with Aaron (loud but an energetic and quirky performance); coming across one of the best personal essays ever, "The Referendum," by Tim Kreider. I must have read the essay like 10 times.

The problem is, we only get one chance at this, with no do-overs. Life is, in effect, a non-repeatable experiment with no control.

Eloquently put. So you do the best with your own life experiment. Good luck.

And my experiment of the day was to give facial a second chance. I like it, and I don't. The pampering is enjoyable, but the cleaning is not.

Now off to cooking a late dinner.

Happy Friday

Met up with K & B tonight to see Julie & Julia. Such a joyful movie! A feast for the heart. Made my week, which was starting to go down hill...

Hopes for this weekend: gym class (cycling), some fall shopping (it's getting cooold), maybe a museum or park if weather permits.

Oh, and I'm going to try to start blogging again. Got inspired by the movie. Of course, then it would seem like I blog all the time. Ah well! I guess I'm just a blogger.

Sleepy

It's Oscar night. My head is giddy. My nose has stopped running, but I'm still feeling under the weather. Can't wait to go to bed.

Polke

Sigmar Polke paintings at Michael Werner Gallery. Great stuff.

Overeating

I've set my longest dinner record: five hours at a Japanese all-you-can-eat restaurant. The details are a little painful, so no need to elaborate.

A Christmas Tree

Tonight I saw a giant blue Christmas tree in the plaza of a large building complex. It was lovely.

Death of a President

In the morning my radio alarm went off and for two hours while I labored to wake up I heard the name Gerald Ford mentioned again and again. Gerald Ford, the 38th president, had died.