Yesterday

Dinner with Dr. MacLaine at the East Side Mario's on University Avenue was nice, although I missed him for 10 minutes--I didn't see him, but I hadn't thought of looking into the bar area for him. The food was good, and the conversation was quite enjoyable, centering mainly on the problems of university education in the 21st century. (More on this later.)

In the evening, I set up with the parents for the beach--Stanhope, actually, just a kilometre away from Dalvay-by-the-Sea. The weather was kind of cool, but the view--as always--was spectacular despite the very high price for entry--if you're a native, you need season passes. Lying on the blanket, I read A.H. Clark's Three Centuries and the Island, a historical geography of PEI that was written in the 1950s; one can only imagine what he would have thought of recent developments (30% growth in population, collapse of the farming population, and so on).

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More Queer as Folk Notes

This Monday past, I watched my fourth episode of Queer as Folk, and I found myself oddly involved: not necessarily entertained, I don't think, as opposed to stunned. I can think of three reasons why this might be:

• The scope of their self-destructive tendencies takes me by surprise, and makes me want to watch.

Between rampant promiscuity, drug use, and a whole broader range of self-destructive tendencies, it's surprising that some of the characters are still around. It's all rather interesting to watch in a train-wreck sort of way.

• I envy the stupid bastards.

Given the barrenness of my personal life (as opposed to my professional life), it's plausible though terribly sad to suggest that I might actually want at some subconscious level to be in that kind of world. It's short-term and sterile, but at least it fills the long hours.

• I might actually be a fan of the show, regardless of what the characters do to themselves or others.

What else is there to say to this?

I suspect that an objective evaluation would say all three factors would play a role, though I myself would prefer the first factor to be the dominant one and prefer the third to have a minor role (while the second is too depressing). I'll probably watch the upcoming episode, though.