paradise

day off,

waking up slowly, reading an article by terry castle from a december edition of the london review of books,

(gordonthegorilla i salute you, really surprisingly swift checkmate...)

i overhear auntie E talking with C about the money i owe her, she says no it's fine R will sort me out later, he left me a note, C gently insists, which means i won't have to pop into auntie E's today, which is both a shame and a good thing, popping into auntie E's can take a long, long time. but that's it, that's why this is paradise, i have time.

i also have 10 - 20 backissues of the london review of books to keep me going, the next (current) one will be here in about two weeks, no way i'll digest this flood before then, maybe i'll keep a current one on the go with a couple of back ones until i get through it all?

you know i also have almost within my grasp, the last two episodes of six feet under... apparently they really rock...

josiah was going to be at home today, so i was looking forward to a trip to the amazon with her and grace, but she found a way, grace's dad looking after grace in lew of the nanny, so she's at college, so maybe i'll go to manolis on my own.

BW rang this morning to tell me how much he likes the music, really captures the piece so he says. very nice. listened to it once already this morning, that first tune... i can hear a slight speeding up in one section of that lovely first tune but otherwise it's perfect, the last tune is slightly different tempos galore but it's also the one representing the mad, mad energy of the play so that works for me...

the calm after all that frenetic energy getting that music together, looking around at the chaos that process wreaked on my room, not that it's not chaotic almost all the time anyway, but this is a particular flavour of chaos...

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