AJM got home from work at 15:30. I had just finished painting the bedroom ceiling, showered, and was sitting wrapped in a towel, combing the tangles of of my hair. With the impulse of young lovers, we dashed to the Alamo Drafthouse at the Village to watch
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
If ET was carrying his cell, they wouldn’t be waiting for him to phone home.
A long walk to Japantown…lunch at a floating sushi restaurant…book-buying at Kinokuniya…the stationers…sushi for dinner.
Surprisingly funny. Well, we were surprised.
I rode all the way to Pleasant Valley today. The air was heavy with moisture blowing up from the Gulf of Mexico, typical weather for this time of year. When the clouds burn off this afternoon, it will just be hot. We broke down and turned on the air conditioner two nights ago–but only at night. I study kanji indoors during the heat of the day and only go outside
Nothing in my history could predict I would love twenty books about two men fighting naval battles in the Napoleonic Wars, but I do!
Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Tracy Chevalier.
HarperCollins Publishers. 1999.
Maybe it’s a guy thing.
To everything, there is a season…and, no, Christmas doesn’t start in September.
If you’ve spent the last forty years or so complaining that “they just don’t make movies like that” anymore, then you’ll be happy to know they just have.