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sanpaku_backupKeep meaning to update stuff. Not that so much has happened but I feel events pulling away from me again. The great weather lately has stirred the creative juices, at least as far as reading and scheming, as usual.
Poetry: Milosz's Road-Side Dog
Literature: Wonder Boys, The Adventures of Augie March
Music to procure: Kid A
Dissertation battle plan: Try to make it more like a social history book, with episodes and characters and so on. Write a chapter in the new style and send it off to a publisher by the end of July.
Literary project: A secret, for now.
Hobby: Trying to learn some bridge. As usual, am now at the "must work on this constantly to improve" stage as there are a lot of things to keep track of.
All of these things keep getting put on a back burner as I try merely to catch up with all the copies of the New Yorker and New York Review lying around.
Was it only last week we went to the Museum of Fine Arts? Guess so. By far the most interesting stuff for me was the exhibit of prints of Krishna. They also had some interesting Dutch stuff and a lot of miscellaneous interesting things. But, eh, not really worth the fortune it cost in parking and admission. But we had to go at least once.
Found out where not to go: Wellesley. Mrs. Sanpaku came up with what should have been a good idea: college town, coffeeshops, miscellaneous places, etc. What we found was anodyne, kind of like the town was designed as an outdoor upscale mall. We couldn't even find a bar, which in a college town is pretty surprising.
Found out where we really need to go more often: Providence. We went down to Thayer Street with my sister-in-law on Thursday and it had everything that I have not found in Boston. Bookstores, cheap restaurants, music shops, all in one tightly packed college town neighborhood. Okay, and crazy people as well as a certain feeling of not being safe, but that's OK. But a place that the second you looked at it was apparent as a million times more interesting than anything in Boston.
Breakfasted today on the sun porch-- oh how twee to say such a thing! Actually it's just a porch and it never really gets any sun, but it is the nicest part of the house. Today I think we're going to drive out near Woonsocket and go walk along one of the canals they have there. Have to do something in this great weather.
Poetry: Milosz's Road-Side Dog
Literature: Wonder Boys, The Adventures of Augie March
Music to procure: Kid A
Dissertation battle plan: Try to make it more like a social history book, with episodes and characters and so on. Write a chapter in the new style and send it off to a publisher by the end of July.
Literary project: A secret, for now.
Hobby: Trying to learn some bridge. As usual, am now at the "must work on this constantly to improve" stage as there are a lot of things to keep track of.
All of these things keep getting put on a back burner as I try merely to catch up with all the copies of the New Yorker and New York Review lying around.
Was it only last week we went to the Museum of Fine Arts? Guess so. By far the most interesting stuff for me was the exhibit of prints of Krishna. They also had some interesting Dutch stuff and a lot of miscellaneous interesting things. But, eh, not really worth the fortune it cost in parking and admission. But we had to go at least once.
Found out where not to go: Wellesley. Mrs. Sanpaku came up with what should have been a good idea: college town, coffeeshops, miscellaneous places, etc. What we found was anodyne, kind of like the town was designed as an outdoor upscale mall. We couldn't even find a bar, which in a college town is pretty surprising.
Found out where we really need to go more often: Providence. We went down to Thayer Street with my sister-in-law on Thursday and it had everything that I have not found in Boston. Bookstores, cheap restaurants, music shops, all in one tightly packed college town neighborhood. Okay, and crazy people as well as a certain feeling of not being safe, but that's OK. But a place that the second you looked at it was apparent as a million times more interesting than anything in Boston.
Breakfasted today on the sun porch-- oh how twee to say such a thing! Actually it's just a porch and it never really gets any sun, but it is the nicest part of the house. Today I think we're going to drive out near Woonsocket and go walk along one of the canals they have there. Have to do something in this great weather.
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Date: 2001-06-11 10:19 am (UTC)