Saturday August 26 2006
Woke up about 7 and did the big walk with the dogs. Whatever that nice little streak of cool breeze was that we had last week is gone. It’s back to nasty, humid, pretty much unbearable weather. Did some chores and went home and took some of my stuff with me. I have to look and see if this Apple battery re-call thing affects mine. Maybe i’ll just go to the Mac store. I’m disappointed in myself. I didn’t really get much done while I was here at Hopkins. I pictured myself writing a new album, or illustrating my book, but instead, the days just flew by. Oh well. This isn’t my best season, summer. Went to lunch at South Street with Tom Littlefield, and I don’t know if I will go back there for a while. It was just so filling and it put me out of comission for 2 hours. Only the dogs really wanted to do something during that time, so I couldn’t really sleep. They were being pesty. So I finally got up and took them around and it was still so disgustingly hot, and my stomach was upset from the lunch, it truly felt like some kind of low point in the week. Which I was happy to put behind me. Made soup, salad and toast for my grandma, and we had a nice dinner and conversation. I thought about some of the Millenium Problems and read a great article about the Poincare Conjecture.
Then Leslie came home and I heated up some soup for her. She was hungry. We took the dogs around and she went home, to Clayton. Liz Workman called, and she was having a birthday party for her brother, and I contemplated going, but my skin looked terrible and I had this huge zit, plus my stomach was still iffy, so I stayed home and watched a French movie called “Sex is Comedy” or something like that, and I was switching back and forth between that, and this documentary called “Sexual Healing”, where these REALLY unattractive people meet with therapists and discuss their sexual problems. Yuck. Sheryl Crow was on Larry King and I like her so much. She’s so grounded and cool. She was talking about global warming and cancer treatment and the world is so complicated now! I mean, I’m kind of worried about it. I just don’t know what else we can do besides stop driving cars immediately, at least gas-powered ones. I mean, it’s already so hot outside, I couldn’t take it if it got any hotter! I haven’t seen the Al Gore movie yet because I know it’ll just make me more concerned. I just wish things weren’t as dire as they seem. I wish it was like it was in the 40’s or 50’s. But then again, science has come so far since then. Medicine anyway. I guess every generation has it’s own problems to deal with, and these our ours. Oh…I watched this morbidly fascinating thing on the History Channel about Caligula. What a baddie.