I’m sitting in the Duke Pub in Toronto right now, listening the the Hurricane Dance Band. They’re fantastic. I’d forgotten how much I love Big Band music. Live, it has incredible drive and complexity. Everyone in the band is old — like, in their sixties and over, but the energy is amazing. So much fun.
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I’m really enjoying my French novel, but it’s been a slow read for me. The author has an extensive vocabulary, which means I have to stop a lot to find out what new words mean.
Of course, extending my French vocabulary is the entire reason I’m reading the novel in the first place, so it’s silly to be frustrated by this. But I am impatient to find out what happens next!
(Today’s new word: “fiacre” — a horse-drawn carriage or hackney cab)