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quislibetIt's another non-entry in the form of miscellanea!
- To my annoyance, I utterly forgot to watch or record the Boudica movie on Masterpiece Theatre, looking again closely at the Post-It note on the television that was meant to remind me it was going to be on only after it had aired. Despite widespread critical disdain, I am still morbidly curious; I don't suppose anyone in a vaguely Boston-ish area taped it?
- Yesterday was irritating: I hate wearing Holter monitors. Also: One gets oversensitive to random twinges and pains when one has to record them in a little diary. (Fear not, dear readers: I am likely as fit as Tony Blair, probably with an adjustment in my favor for age, if less dedicated to my work.)
- I must remember to cancel my emusic.com membership. Not only are they changing the terms of service at the end of the month to restrict MP3 downloading considerably, but I have found the site less responsive lately and downloads more likely to result in "error" messages. Plus, that Die Laughing track I just listened to was all whacked, not something I mind so much at the moment, but when each track begins to count against a monthly maximum, such things will be rather vexing.
- At the Salem Public Library I found among "new nonfiction" a very recent biography of Nero I had not heard anything about. Huh.
- I discovered the other day that "quislibet" is perfectly good medieval Latin, so that's somewhat less embarrassing. Still, be careful when choosing a username, ladies and gentlemen, especially if it's in a foreign language and you suspect that ridiculous numbers of people will one day be reading your journal because you've done something allegedly clever in that language.
- An update to the "baseball, motherhood, and apple pie" entry: It turned out that J.'s mom learned at a crucial and belated moment that she had no flour, so not only did the Sox lose, but there was, in the end, no pie.
- To my annoyance, I utterly forgot to watch or record the Boudica movie on Masterpiece Theatre, looking again closely at the Post-It note on the television that was meant to remind me it was going to be on only after it had aired. Despite widespread critical disdain, I am still morbidly curious; I don't suppose anyone in a vaguely Boston-ish area taped it?
- Yesterday was irritating: I hate wearing Holter monitors. Also: One gets oversensitive to random twinges and pains when one has to record them in a little diary. (Fear not, dear readers: I am likely as fit as Tony Blair, probably with an adjustment in my favor for age, if less dedicated to my work.)
- I must remember to cancel my emusic.com membership. Not only are they changing the terms of service at the end of the month to restrict MP3 downloading considerably, but I have found the site less responsive lately and downloads more likely to result in "error" messages. Plus, that Die Laughing track I just listened to was all whacked, not something I mind so much at the moment, but when each track begins to count against a monthly maximum, such things will be rather vexing.
- At the Salem Public Library I found among "new nonfiction" a very recent biography of Nero I had not heard anything about. Huh.
- I discovered the other day that "quislibet" is perfectly good medieval Latin, so that's somewhat less embarrassing. Still, be careful when choosing a username, ladies and gentlemen, especially if it's in a foreign language and you suspect that ridiculous numbers of people will one day be reading your journal because you've done something allegedly clever in that language.
- An update to the "baseball, motherhood, and apple pie" entry: It turned out that J.'s mom learned at a crucial and belated moment that she had no flour, so not only did the Sox lose, but there was, in the end, no pie.
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Date: 2003-10-21 04:05 pm (UTC)He'd better not be saying I'm fat!
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Date: 2003-10-21 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-21 04:26 pm (UTC)Ah, there is no joy in Mudville... no baseball, no apple pie... next you will tell me there are no hotdogs!
Boudica
Date: 2003-10-21 04:49 pm (UTC)Re: Boudica
Date: 2003-10-23 09:16 am (UTC)Re: Boudica
Date: 2003-10-23 06:12 pm (UTC)I miss a lot of good stuff. Too many channels.
Champlin's Nero
Date: 2003-10-21 04:40 pm (UTC)Re: Champlin's Nero
Date: 2003-10-23 09:21 am (UTC)re: names in foreign tongues.
Date: 2003-10-21 10:02 pm (UTC)Re: names in foreign tongues.
Date: 2003-10-23 09:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-22 08:21 am (UTC)It was kind of like an episode of Xena with a big budget and some historical advisors, along with somewhat blatant rip-offs of Julie Taymor's Titus when it came to the gilded decadent Romans and Braveheart when it came to the rousing speeches of the Celts. Alex Kingston looked like she was having barrels of fun as Boudica though, and that was contaigious so while I wouldn't say it was _good_, I enjoyed watching it.
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Date: 2003-10-22 08:59 am (UTC)Also, J. appears to have been adopted.
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Date: 2003-10-23 09:18 am (UTC)