A quiet Sunday

A quiet Sunday, mostly, spent hanging around the house with the dog and doing the Times crossword. (He’s more into the jumble, actually.) I joined a couple of friends (and a new member, an acquaintance of a friend) for our weekly free-writing group, and I had a couple of photos accepted for inclusion in Small Beer Press’ A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011. I quite liked this year’s planner, and Gavin Grant recently put out a call for photos, so… And then finally, Kaleidotrope #9 got its first official review. (An unofficial one came in the other day.) It’s always nice to get feedback on an issue, good or bad, but especially when it’s good.

I went for another short walk, had pizza for dinner with my mother, and tried some homemade ice cream from a new local creamery. And that’s about it as far as Sunday goes.

Oh! But that blood drive that I thought was yesterday but wasn’t? It was actually today. Which I knew, because I’d written in my calendar that it was August 1. But I spent a lot of yesterday morning thinking Saturday was the first. But I was quickly disabused of that notion and was at multiple times reminded throughout the day that Sunday was actually the first. But I never made the connection in my brain between the corrected dates and the blood drive. I just happened to be walking past the church where it was being held earlier this evening. Had I eaten anything recently — I skipped lunch — and had it not been winding down anyway, I might have gone in to donate. Maybe next time.

♪ July, July, July! It never seemed so strange… ♪

Wondering what new, or newly discovered, music I was listening to in July?

  1. “1985 (live)” by Richard Thompson
  2. “21 Guns” from American Idiot (orig. cast recording)
  3. “Home” by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
  4. “Welcome Home (the SFWA Song)” by Janis Ian
  5. “Black Winged Bird” by Nina Persson
  6. “Nirvana, by Kurt Cobain” by Drew Danburry
  7. “Creep” by Scala and Kolacny Brothers
  8. “Take It In” by Wye Oak
  9. “Square One” by Tom Petty
  10. “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” by Jill Hennessy
  11. “Audience” by Cold War Kids
  12. “Youthless” by Beck
  13. “Stop in the Name of Love” by Toadsuck Symphony
  14. “Holocaust of Giants” by Rasputina
  15. “Call It a Ritual” by Wolf Parade
  16. “Terrible Things” by April Smith and the Great Picture Show