Doctorow

“I’m like most people: I don’t usually understand what’s happening to me while it’s happening. I have to reconstruct it later, like a detective.”

-- E. L. Doctorow at The Paris Review

Pop and Kay

I am on a lucky streak as far as Pop and Kay are concerned. He left to spend a couple of days over there. He did not say what the happy occasion was, but I am happy nonetheless. He left dressed all in black, even topped off with his black cowboy hat. ((It has been a while since he has worn his hats, maybe a couple of months.)) Since I am in a good mood, rather than feeling annoyed, I genuinely thought he looked good, for a little old Mexican. For a 73 year-old, he looks fantastic. ((Lord, is there any chance, twenty-five years from now, I will be looking back and reading this entry and saying to myself, "I did it, too!" in my seventies, still carrying on with my books and writing?))

Science

“Physics is music, and math is its poetry.”

-- Anonymous

Holiday Music

It has been a long time since I listened to SIRIUS'S love songs. Having the house to myself, I thought I'd tune in and maybe listen to some old favorites during my reading breaks. However, I was stunned to hear, of all things, Christmas music. They have already gone to holiday programming! I was deeply confused at first. "It isn't even Halloween yet!" But then I remembered that we are in the middle of November. True, it is the early 'middle', but Halloween has certainly passed us by already, and Thanksgiving is rather near. ((God, is Pop going to have guests again??)) Still, I wish they could wait at least until Thanksgiving week before they start airing "White Christmas", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and the whole cheery program. Four weeks would be plenty long enough. Well, I don't really listen to it anymore anyway. There's always YouTube.

Nighty Night

I was hoping to have a late night, even looking to have a bowl of ice cream and starting a movie at Amazon, but by 9:30 I was already having trouble keeping my eyes open and holding my head up. Sleepy, sleepy. And I am just going to go with that.