I thought I would write about pro-drop and subject ellipsis today as well as similar phenomena.
I’m just not feeling it.
Instead, a brief summary:
1. Acorn squash for lunch. Same procedure (cut in half, seasoned, baked/roasted in the oven for about an hour) as for the delicata. What I love about the delicata is that you can eat the skin; what I appreciate about the acorn is that it has a firmer and more flavorful flesh that better integrates the spices.
2. And another baked apple, this time one of the Granny Smiths I had left over. What’s amazing about baking an apple is that you can get it to the point that it almost ‘explodes’ … trap too much steam in it, etc. One common technique to avoid this is to score the apple around the middl, puncture the skin, or similar. Another is to peel them first. It’s similar to how we bake potatoes.
3. I’m in the first third of season three of ‘BSG’ right now. It’s been a few years since I last watched it. The whole season is good and I love its intensity, and I’m one that does like its philosophical turn. That having been said, since I know what’s coming, part of me would just like to skip to the end of the season and then to the middle of season 4.
4. Today Ms. S. went shopping with her father a bit in the afternoon; I had a chance to pass along a list of recommended books from Oxford UP’s ‘Very Short Introductions’ series. I like the series as a whole and it is worth a little more reflection, though I’m not going to dedicate much in the way of thought or words to it right now. On the one hand it’s just a high-class “… for Dummies” or “Complete Idiot’s Guide to …,” and it dilutes its ‘brand’ once it branches out into some of its more superficial topics. On the other hand it recalls the 18th-century, in publishing and culture, when as part of what we call the Enlightenment authors and publishers took to producing all sorts of encyclopedias and dictionaries, almanacs and guides … to/for all sorts of topics, including fashion, diet, and hygiene, but also grammar and language skills, and so on.
5. It’s Friday night, so we get to relax after a long week, and in addition to beginning season 2 of ‘The X-Files’ we’ll likely open a bottle of wine. Now I just need the proper dinner to go with it.
