Moot Thoughts & Musings

On Wednesday afternoon some of us theory/musicology folks were sitting around before class, and it came up that no one else had seen What's Up, Doc? (1972, Barbara Streisand and Ryan O'Neal)!!! This is the only movie I can think of that features a musicologist trying to get a research grant, which cracks me up in and of itself. Also funny is that I can think of real life musicologist counterparts to the ones on the movie. It's a must-see for all musicologists.

When I realized that no one else had seen it, I rashly announced a "What's Up, Doc?" party at my house. Friday evening, Erica and Jack came down presumably to follow up on my invitation. I made yummy pumpkin stuffed pasta with a salad, steamed vegetables, and bread with fabulous Spanish sheep's cheese. I had called all over New Orleans to find this movie; it is only carried by one place across town. After we all enjoyed a nice dinner and pleasurable company, we voted that we were too tired to watch a movie. So "What's Up, Doc?" party has yet to be held.

Saturday, Chris got up early to go to school to help a kid and to work on their computers. I ran some errands, and then took my friend Abby to the bead shop for her 4 yr old birthday outing. She made a necklace strung with pink beads and pink plastic animals. She's a very sweet girl and good with details, summoning the patience to string some of the small ones on herself, which is a lot for the small hands to manage. Later at her house, we ate cake with pink frosting on pink plates washed down with pink juice. (Do we see a pattern?) She's pictured right with her new necklace and her Dora the Explorer (or as I say, Explorah) bday cake.

In the evening I played church lady and got all my stuff together for the fellowship lunch on Sunday.

And yet again, we forgot the time change, which isn't so bad in the fall. The fact that even though we were running late and got a good parking place (as in, no other cars) clued me in. It was kind of nice, because we were grumpy that we were running late, and it turned out that we were actually super early. So we came back home, got our minds in better order, and came back in good time.

On our way home from evening service, we took a roundabout route through neighborhoods to spy out cute trickortreaters. We saw a few, but what we saw more of were older kids trickortreating without having dressed up! Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose!!? Was it somehow uncool this year to wear a costume?? Chris and I made fun of them to ourselves, e.g. "I went as a loser." Really. All one needs is a paper bag to have the beginnings of a costume! $5 at a thrift store is a pretty good start, too.

Thirteen more years until the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

Rumor has it that Fall is supposed to start this week.