Today has been a rather quiet day, but I can’t say I don’t relish it, especially after spending the better part of my week with almost 200 high school students for eight hours a day.

I began the day with my weekly long run. We did 7 miles on a surprisingly sunny morning, considering the clouds to the west of us and the drenching rains we had the day before. Seven of us ran–almost all of them were from Aaron’s workplace–and we attempted the additional mile by going up a hill of mass proportions. I’m getting better because I never fail to do my three mile runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at least for three weeks now. Next weekend is my 5K, so we’l see if it pushes me to be any faster than I was last year.

After my run, Lesley left for a work party and Justin was still at Danforth, so I made a list of what needed to be done. Shower, grocery shopping, bank, cooking, and cleaning were all on my list. However, I spent a great deal of my day reading or listening to my book on CD while cooking and cleaning.

Right now I am working on a Mitford series book and I just finished In the Company of Cheerful Ladies on CD. I don’t know why it is called that, but it’s in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. I like series in books because I get to know the characters and I can follow them throughout their life. It’s not like you just get to know them and 300 or 400 pages later, they are yanked from your attention. I think I’ll get another book on CD because it’s something to do while driving, cooking, and cleaning besides talking on a cell phone. Let’s just give a big “hurrah” for the public libraries for making all of this entertainment possible!

Speaking of entertainment, last night, Justin, Lesley and I went to the Intiman Theater (our member venue) to see Moonlight and Magnolias, a play about the legendary producer David Selznick and his team’s adventure in writing the screenplay for Gone With the Wind. Hilarious as it was, the main message seemed to be how producers really control the content and message of a movie, and they sometimes feel that they have to please “the masses” rather than themselves when making a movie.

More about our weekend adventures another day…