Up 7:15.
Laundry day - helped Bree take it down.
Started picking away at today’s bridge graf earlier than usual. Did a pass, then today’s form notes. (By the way: 1948 had 25% AABAs + a couple other 32-bar forms, the most of any year/set so far; the first disc of 1949, so far, only has 3!).
Exercised - it took about as long as Jimmy Witherspoon’s two sided version of “Ain’t Nobody’s Business,” the record that made Jerry Lieber want to become a lyricist when he heard it working as a busboy at (I think) Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown LA.
Watched a few more poetry videos, tried to close a few more tabs. Waffling about ordering some recordings.
Coffee, breakfast, about 9.
Read to p. 72 in Eleanor to get the jump on the afternoon.
Walk. Helped Bree bring laundry up. A lot of handwashing.
Worked 11-1. Sent 2 grafs! (Really 1 long technical one that read better w/ a break.) But I’m not a day ahead anymore.
p. 100 Elanor + about 15 p. of Poetic Closure by 2. The notion of “terminal modification” (i.e. a variant refrain or a couplet at the ending of quatrains) as strengthening closure is interesting; and she notes that a return to a norm after a deviation (I.e. - a bridge!) can also have this effect. Her psychologizing can feel overgeneral, universalizing - this is def. criticism before “theory.”
Lunch. Tried to change our grocery delivery order, but we’d missed the window.
Continued reading w/ breaks, ’til 5.
Bree thinks she has a mild cold - maybe I had one last week.
Watched an old Rankin-Bass special, Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1970), voiced by Danny Kaye, Vincent Price, Casey Kasem, and Paul Fries.
Wrote 100 words from a prompt.
Bree too tired to do much about dinner. Ate what was around (1/2 sweet potato, cheese) and made some quinoa.
Emptied a box in the living room, moved some things.
Read another chunk of Elanor.
Lights out 11:30.