Day 4 - 29 -- Catch Up Time

I spent much of the afternoon catching up on an historical TV series I'd recorded earlier. I watched the first three hours of the PBS series Victoria. It took a bit of time to see the "Impossible Girl" as the queen, but part way through the first hour, she'd made me forget her sojourns through Doctor Who. While the story is not new, even the expected storyline is presented well and in a fair bit of detail -- some poetic license there with the conversations, I expect, though Queen Victoria's diaries were fairly detailed. I will continue to record the new episodes to view later, since they are on late on Sunday evening -- a night I try to get to sleep early due to a very early wakeup time on Monday mornings.

The other catch-up was with an online course I'd signed up for that began January 4th. The term did not start as expected this year, so I've been a bit behind for some time. Today I watched the first three of the concluded four weeks. Each presents an hour lecture with some prep for the next week, such as podcasts, videos and reading. The theme deals with an exploration of foodways as folklore. The man reading so far is an autoethnographic book deconstructing a woman's life through the recipes she cooked. Food as performance, history, and tradition have been discussed to date. I'm looking forward to the rest of the course. One of my friends once said that I use knowledge acquisition as others use recreation. <smile>  I guess she was right. In just the first three sessions I've had many ideas of ways to pursue some of my current research interests. Imagine! It is like a free time to 'play' with something I enjoy.

I have an odd song to share here today.It was a B-side on a single release, thus less well known from the quartet that was now a trio -- and not the trio (well, there have been two other trios) that they became in later years. <smile>. The title fit my activities today, but the lyrics don't mention fun anywhere in them and may even be a bit on the creepy side. The banjo work on this one is fun, though. I said it was an odd choice. Enjoy!

Good Clean Fun -- The Monkees (Jones, Dolenz & Nesmith)