Rereading: A Tale of Two Cities

Learning: the inspiration for the triangular ("vee," in poly-speak, except unrequited) romantic entanglement.

Listening: The dishwasher. Again. Nocturnes.

Moving: Walked 3.5 miles

Viewing: Magpies. Way too much television.

26 November 1999: U.S. Boxing Day

No "My So-Called Life" marathon on MTV to detoxify on. We had to think of something else.

After having pie for breakfast, I suggested going to the zoo with its new Komodo dragons and one visiting particularly monstrous one. We went to the zoo on Christmas Day 1996 and I think again in 1998, our two solitary (or duo) Denver Christmases, and we'll be away this Christmas, so I thought it'd be a good holiday thing to do. Except that everyone else wanted to do it too who wasn't shopping or going to the Museum of Natural History next door. I then suggested the John Fielder photographs at the Colorado History Museum (this man rephotographed all these Colorado scenes that someone or other whose name I forget documented a century ago), but everyone who wasn't shopping, at the zoo, or at the Museum of Natural History, was at the Denver Art Museum or the Colorado History Museum (or had parked in their lots to shop downtown). Then we heard on the radio that KBCO's newest "Studio C" album is out--live performances at the radio station--so we went to a Wherehouse Music to acquire that, but everyone who wasn't at the malls, the museums, or the zoo was there in a line more than a quarter-mile long. I told RDC I'd drop him off, but he wanted to go home.

So we came home and went for a walk.

And I call it Boxing Day because Usans tend not to have the 26th of December off but a lot of us do have Thanksgiving Friday off. And we buy things and put them in boxes.