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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Reunion: Monday mini-update
I had hours left to kill at LAX before my 11:15 (10:30 boarding) flight to Chicago, the dreaded red-eye.
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Tagged food, learning my lines, leaving on a jet plane, music, teaching
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Reunion: Sunday mini-update
To continue Saturday: after lunch I wandered around campus a bit, saw Mason, for example, took some pictures, and eventually ended up at Little Bridges for the Glee Club concert, which included a nice selection of music from many centuries. … Continue reading
Reunion: Saturday mini-update
Friday I met Nate — after a few difficulties finding each other at Union Station — and we took the Metrolink to Claremont. Upon departing Nate started talking with a guy who might have been a Pomona or Claremont Colleges … Continue reading
Reunion: Friday mini-update
Thursday night in Santa Monica with Leena … great Asian food and a nice walk on the 3rd Street Promenade. I, curiously enough, had never been there during my years at Pomona.
Said the barista; “Oh my god … oh. You didn’t hear that.”
As for the barista, who served me my coffee but was cleaning up near the window when he said that, I think he was partaking of a little people-watching as a particularly attractive young woman walked by.
I’m off to see the wizard …
The taxi will be here at 4:40 in the morning. I’ll be at the airport shortly after 5, for a 6-am-ish flight. To Denver then Ontario.
It’s Martini Time
Chatted with some old “friends” this evening.
It was shorts and mini-skirts weather.
The day in review:
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When all else fails … cornbread
It’s Sunday evening and I just want to ramble a bit. One of the more difficult social tensions (dialectics) to solve is between involvement and distance.
Ian McKellen reading the phone book …
I re-watched X-Men – The Last Stand (aka X-Men 3) today, and with the commentary. It’s hard to take the commentary seriously, which is to say, when the director and writers talk about how much they “love” a certain shot, … Continue reading