Up for a while around 5:30 am; back to sleep 7:30, dreamt Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez was gently but firmly lecturing me about indigenous land rights while I ate white chocolate M&Ms. Got up for real 9:30. Not optimal. Breakfast/coffee. Tried to learn about the Patricia McCullogh, the PA judge who has stayed the certification “to the extent that there remains any further action to perfect” it.

Watched Without Honor (Irving Pechel 1949), a strange hour-long b-not-a-noir-exactly w/ Laraine Day (against type), Dane Clark, Bruce Bennett, and Agnes Moorhead. Did some ear training exercises (intervals) online. Downloaded a metronome app for practice. Played piano for 15 min. (but not w/ metronome); just chromatic scales and ii-V changes.

Called my dad 1-2 pm. Wrote 3-4:30; 500 words about defining the bridge, which I’ll cut by half. Did the rest of my intended piano practice. Started cooking w/ Bree at 5:30, delayed a bit by a call from my friend Jenny, with whom we’ve spent a number of Thanksgivings. Roasted a butternut squash, made green beans, heated up a smoked duck breast we ordered instead of some huge bird. Dinner music: 2nd disc of Blue Note Bud Powell, the Code Girl CD, and some Bidú Sayão arias. We ordered 2 pies, apple and pecan/chocolate, for dessert - good but almost disconcerting when you’ve barely been eating sugar for months. Big meal, for us - leftovers will last a few days, but it was not so bad not to be faced with an array of starches.

Cleaned up, more or less, called our friend Ron in CA. Bree stayed on longer; I took out several days of trash and recycling. Allowed myself to order a few Black Friday items from oldies.com — non-Blue Note Bud Powell, News From Babel, Ben Watt’s North Marine Drive w/ bonus tracks (w/ Wyatt), 2 comps of UK experimental/art-rock. Read 2 poems in Ashbery, Commotion. “…the comedy-on-the-train operetta, a huge success when it opened in Shanghai.” Lights out 11:15.