December 14 - Gray Areas


Up early grading Quiz 14 and Reviews for the Music Historians,


meeting with many of the latter


Diablo Valley College students over an extended habit-forming period,


unexpectedly adventuring homeward via 4 and 80


(past Refinery Valley


and


Canyon,


up


and


over


the


American


Canyon


Grade,


towards the Fairfield Foothills and


Pyramids,


Poverty Hills,


and the


Lagoon Mountains) to pick up a


hoagie and namesake at the local Philly Cheese Steak Shop


for late lunch


with Harriet, while reviewing Brief Encounter (David Lean's 1945 film, after Noel Coward's Still Life, 1936), finishing the pdf of Spectral Preludes: IX. Blue (4 pages total), and composing Double Piano Concerto: III (page 16) and The Decameron - Third Day: VII (18).


In the evening,


off to Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012, after J.R.R. Tolkien's novel, 1937),


returning home for late night refreshment.