Saturday in earnest

I can’t say I slept entirely well last night, and on waking my allergies seem to have stepped up their game, unfortunately. But otherwise, it was a good day. I watched the last two or three — I lost count — episodes of season two of Justified, and I read a little bit, at least until the summer sun and falling apple blossom buds annoyed me too much and I left the back deck behind.

Then this evening, I accompanied my parents into Manhattan for dinner out and a show — specifically The Importance of Being Earnest on Broadway. They were discounted tickets, with the show was sadly playing to a not very full house, and in part an excuse to go to this restaurant my father likes, and which every year sends him a birthday coupon for fifty dollars off.

The show was great, silly fun, at times maybe a bit too Oscar Wilde-ian — I couldn’t help but be reminded of this Monty Python sketch — but quite enjoyable.

And that was Saturday.

Fried daze

Woke up early, thanks to a barking dog who convinced my father he had to go out. My father was already on his way out, so he knocked on my door and asked if I could take the dog. And so at that point, sometime around 6:30, I figured I might as well just stay up. I ended up catching the 7 o’clock train into Manhattan and, despite a delayed subway and the place where I bought breakfast being insanely over-crowded, I got to the office a little after 8.

After which, it was mostly just a regular Friday. I’m pretty tired now, but that’s to be expected.

I can tell you this much: if the dog needs walking first thing tomorrow morning, I’ll still do it, but then I’m going back to bed.

Random 10 6-3-11

Last week. This week:

  1. “Cradle and All” by Ani Difranco
    Fourteenth Street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone
  2. “The Chain” by Ingrid Michaelson, guessed by Occupant
    The bones are shifting in my skin
  3. “Lipstick Vogue” by Elvis Costello
    Don’t say you love me when it’s just a rumor
  4. “Eleanor Rigby” by the Beatles, guessed by Betty
    Darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there
  5. “Girl from the North County” by Rosanne Cash (orig. Bob Dylan), guessed by Kim
    Please see for me if her hair is hanging long
  6. “Look” by Solilaquists of Sound
    But to blame our human nature is a waste of time
  7. “For Your Love” by the Yardbirds, guessed by Occupant
    I’d bring you diamond rings and things right to your door
  8. “Dear Mr. President” by P!nk, guessed by Occupant
    You’ve come a long way, from whiskey and cocaine
  9. “God Only Knows” by Petra Haden (orig. the Beach Boys), guessed by Clayton
    The world could show nothing to me
  10. “Failsafe” by the New Pornographers
    Signing my checks with a name that’s not mine

I’m sure you know some of these, right? Good luck!