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Is it really September 7th?

I wonder how my customary Summer-happy stupidity/Autumn-intellection/Winter-vague depression/Spring-exaltation cycle will be affected by the climate here, where, from an Ohioan perspective, January just disappears and the other months stretch out to fill the void. For that matter, how did Vancouver affect it? I remember being adrift a lot during the rain months. I have a bit of a craving for a classically harsh winter, actually, like I tasted in Hamilton while school-visiting. Which I'll likely get soon enough, thanks to BushCo.

Been reading Underworld and Franklin's memoirs this week, both great fun for the most part. The Crossing, Murphy and "Penelope" (yes, still) are lying handy, to be finished some weekend. The town library has several Galateas. My classes seem easy enough. Been 80% unpacked for weeks. The IMAX experience of a new place is settling down to sitcom routine at last.

We got TV, real TV, despite my fervent objections. Bill Maher and John Stewart went satisfyingly left during the eight years since I last had cable, clearly. And The Colbert Report is gold. We're also experimenting with Netflix, enjoying the Beckett on Film series and Burns' Civil War DVD set.

Also I have a cellphone, which got boring fast. And clearly I can't leave the country for three years without things going straight to hell: sold at the local Kroger's are frozen corndoglike products consisting of smoked sausages wrapped in pancakes full of chocolate chips.

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how are you finding the beckett on film series? other than enjoying it, which bodes well. i've been hesitant so far, don't know why exactly. i listened to the Three Novels on tape and didn't like it at all.

Kroger's has a great, um, vegetarian corndog from morningstar farms when you're done indulging in the other version. The outside is sweet, even polenta-like, and the dog tastes like a real hotdog, if memory serves.

I got turned off by many of those films, too, but there are some great ones: Billie Whitelaw doing Winnie, and "That Time" was good as well. I liked the Krapp, too. Also, a new recording on CD of The Unnamable is just fantastic.

I don't know where in Ohio you are but if you're near Dayton or Cinci there's an unforgettable experience awaiting you at Jungle Jim's.