Saturday I finished both Ragtime and At the Back of the North Wind. Now I'm back to reading the foreigners issue of Lapham's Quarterly.
On Sunday I went to the book club to talk about the latter book, which was at the same place as my memoir group! John Snow was feeling unwell, so I played host. Just four people came, and John's decided to disband the group. (He still has the Dickens-Hardy book club.)
On the way there I noticed a big rally at Queen's Park to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian genocide. I also notice a pro-Turkish counter-demonstration across the street from it. One of the Turkish signs said: "Armenian hate propaganda has no place in multicultural Canada." That's why I don't like outlawing "hate speech"--it's a slippery slope.
Last week at the choir we started doing the song "Can You Can-Can" (to Offenbach's melody) from the kitschy Nicole Kidman musical Moulin Rouge. For the first time I wondered whether I really want to be in that choir! This week we started "Pie Jesu" from Requiem by (please don't laugh) Andrew Lloyd Webber.
My cipralex ran out so I went for a refill and I turns out I have to go to see Dr. Hassan tomorrow to renew the prescription! And I thought it was just a short time since the last renewal.
On The Huffington Post recently there was a report about a Satanist suing the state government. I posted, "If I had to live in Oklahoma I'd probably become a Satanist too!" Someone responded "I'm from Oklahoma, and that is so not nice," so I wrote another post: "You Oklahomans have my sympathy, but not as much as Floridians."
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