These are curious days. The quest for a new dog continues, with no
clear consensus of what a new dog would look like, or what anyone really
wants. As you can imagine, that's a bit stressful! The student roster
continues to temporarily inflate, as a changing of the guard approaches
with the end of the GCSE
exams. The nine hundredth Quirky Muffin is now not very far away, nor
is the end of the first year of Open University studies. Yes, it's
definitely a curious time. Please send remedial cookies.
Selecting
a dog seems to be far more fraught than it ever used to be, and more
expensive and far less organised. Hopefully, something will work out.
Tangentially, beagles really don't look at all like Snoopy, do they? Not
even the Snoopy from the very beginning of 'Peanuts'. It's odd. I don't
remember when the breed 'beagle' was attached to him, nor whether it
was earlier or later in the first few years. Ah well, he's a lovable dog
anyway. Mental note: Watch 'The Peanuts Movie' again. My, that's an
underrated movie.
What else is going on? Apart from student prep
and studies of my own, there is also the endless reading and 'Project
Watch Every DVD', which is now into the final seasons of 'The Six
Million Dollar Man' and 'The Bionic Woman' and has recently cracked open
the first season of '30 Rock'. '30 Rock' is surprisingly good, a great
show. It may even have rewatchability, by gad! 'Gilligan's Island' has proven
to be amazing, by the way, a gigantic success which never made it to
Britain. What a shame that is, as they really are an iconic set of
characters, and it's obvious why they have remained popular references
for all these years.
The reading stretches on, as endless short
story collections continue, and continue, and continue... The complete
'Father Brown' is a dense brick of entertainment especially, whose
remaining pages never seem to become fewer despite the fun of what's
going on. 'Journey to the West', definitely not a short story, is
continuing well, but at over two thousand pages it may consume the rest
of my life...
'Journey To The West' may never actually finish? Is that some kind of Buddhist or Taoist exercise?
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