Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much sleepy fish, ruminating on the little fact that today is the last day of September. This month has flown by, like a gazelle listening to the music of Gustav Mahler whilst vacuuming. And tomorrow will be October and it is my fervent hope and prayer that October will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. I, myself, am not listening to the music of Gustav Mahler, but I am listening to the wonderful music of American composer John Alden Carpenter and his most well-known piece, Adventures in a Perambulator, conducted by another great American composer Howard Hanson, in wonderful Mercury Living Presence stereophonic sound, whilst eating some popcorn as my evening snack. That is what I’m doing. I’m also in the middle of a motion picture that I’ll finish after posting these here notes, entitled Signs. Well, the notes aren’t entitled Signs, the motion picture is. It’s another M. Night Shyamalan movie I’ve never had any desire to see. So far, fifty minutes in, I’m enjoying it, I suppose, but I’ll see how I feel when I finish it. Otherwise, yesterday was a sleepy day. I was what you’d call a sleepyhead. That was me. A sleepyhead. I got to bed around three, was up at four-thirty for about ninety minutes, then slept until noon. So, around seven and a half hours of sleep. I ordered food from Daughter’s Deli – the turkey papa sandwich – same as the pastrami papa but with turkey – turkey, coleslaw, Swiss cheese, and 1000-Island dressing. It got here an hour later and was really good. Side dish was a tiny thing of cucumber salad. Then I did do a little lyric writing on the last song, just setting down lines I like and figuring out the form and also the focusing it, so it does what it’s supposed to do, as it ends the short piece it’s from. Then at around three-thirty I sat on my couch like so much fish and went to the Tube of You and before I could even choose anything to watch I was out like a light and remained so for almost three HOURS. I did keep waking up every few minutes, and each bout of sleep between wakeups contained some weird dream, one after another. I don’t remember any of them specifically, but boy they were weird. Then I answered some e-mails, then chose Signs to watch on Prime. About thirty minutes in, I fell asleep again and woke up at the sixty-minute mark. Ridiculous. I reversed back to the last scene I watched and watched until the same point where I woke up. I had a telephonic conversation, watched a bit more of the movie, then it was time to write these here notes and here we are.
Today, I’ll be up by eleven at the latest, I’m going to preorder food and have it arrive at noon. I’ll eat whatever it is, then I have to go have a brief visit just five minutes from here, then I’ll go to the mail place and hopefully pick up two important envelopes, then I’ll come home. I’ll do some work at the piano and begin setting whatever lyrics I have to music. Then at some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow will be a new month, so I’ll do banking, Wednesday is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, so I may buy something that resembles Jewish food, and the rest of the week is more of the same.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven at the latest, eat at noon, have a brief visit at two, hopefully pick up two important envelopes at the mail place, work at the piano, then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite movies starring Mel Gibson, star of Signs? Let’s have load of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, having had quite enough of the sleepyhead for one day.