Yesterday, completely by accident, I observed 3.14… pi day with a tasty piece of saskatoon pie with ice cream at lunch. I think I should also note that yesterday, being exactly 1 month after Valentines Day, has also acquired a popular ‘off colour’ nickname among those people who would not fit well into Victorian society. I’ll leave you to investigate March 14 further in the Urban Dictionary.
I ended up eating out twice, when I went to supper with my parents. Upon leaving the restaurant the Lincoln that we parked next to had a man putting a straightened clothes hanger poking through the door gap. His son had locked the door without taking the keys out of the ignition. He’d done this before apparently. He was headed to the same play we were headed to and figured CAA wouldn’t arrive in time. I asked him if it was his worst nightmare to be caught slim-jimming a car in broad daylight in the middle of Regina. Another couple hassled him a little too as they left the restaurant and walked by to their car.
The Importance of Being Earnest was the play I saw, and it was done very well. It wasn’t as funny as I thought it might be, but many of the characters and actors were very good. I’d seen one of them before in the Alice Nocturne at the Globe. Afterward they presented an award to an alumnus of the UofR, but the speeches were much too long for a surprise captive audience. The actress who had won was from Stoughton, SK originally, and has appeared on This is Wonderland, Soulpepper theatre in Toronto, and MVP (now canceled I’ve heard).
One of the actresses from the show looked just like Cheri Oteri from Saturday Night Live when she did her vapid Victorian stare. The makeup must have been good too, because some of these 20-somethings played convincing old people.
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And today is the Ides of March. Ides means 15th of the month, if my memory works. Perhaps it just means middle? Anyway, there are Ides of any month, not just March. Traditionally this day is a day to be wary wary careful if hunting wabbits. Also some dude named Julius (seriously) was offed by another dude named Brutus. You too, Brutus, eh? Strangely enough, this Julicide was made famous (again) in a play.
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[...] Beware the Ides of March after having pi pie Beware the Ides of March after having pi pie March 15th, 2008 Yesterday, completely by accident, I observed 3.14… pi day with a tasty piece of Saskatoon pie with ice cream at lunch. I think I should also note that yesterday, being exactly 1 month after Valentines Day, has also acquired a popular ‘off colour’ nickname among those people who would not fit well into Victorian society. I’ll leave you to investigate March 14 further in the Urban Dictionary. I ended up eating out twice, when I we [...]
David B | 15-Mar-08 at 3:12 pm | Permalink
How come nobody sent out pi day announcements? If I’d known (or looked at the calendar) I could have got myself a piece of pie too - except I would have eaten it at precisely 1:59.26 in the afternoon. More precision than that is just not possible with pie.
Saskboy | 15-Mar-08 at 3:22 pm | Permalink
Pumpkin pie would have been perfect.
Louise | 15-Mar-08 at 4:06 pm | Permalink
I would have preferred saskatoon pie to Saskatoon pie, but that’s just me.
Saskboy | 15-Mar-08 at 4:11 pm | Permalink
Good point Louise. I fixed it. “Saskatoon” pie could be any pie in Saskatoon.
Louise | 15-Mar-08 at 8:22 pm | Permalink
I think Saskatoon pie might have been a bit too crunchy.
huffb1 | 15-Mar-08 at 9:08 pm | Permalink
I love Saskatoon Pie! with ice cream.
Louise | 15-Mar-08 at 9:55 pm | Permalink
I do too, Huff, but there’s big difference between the sweet little berry and the city that goes by the same name. The one with the capital letter I am sure would be full of concrete and asphalt and other nasty stuff. Ice cream wouldn’t quite do it. ;-)
Louise | 15-Mar-08 at 9:56 pm | Permalink
BTW, Saskboy, your blog is acting really, really slow. Do you have a server problem or something?
Saskboy | 15-Mar-08 at 9:58 pm | Permalink
Quite possibly Louise. I’m loathe to spend money on upgrading the serving (especially since I don’t know the best way to make it better). It could even be a plugin or the WP-cache messing things up. Thanks for the bug report though, I’ll dig into it.
Louise | 16-Mar-08 at 4:47 pm | Permalink
Whatever you did, it worked.
Saskboy | 16-Mar-08 at 5:23 pm | Permalink
What in particular was loading slowly? I noticed blogrolling was slow yesterday, and so the main page would be sluggish. I turned off my caching software (so hopefully no links from Digg, is all that means).
Louise | 16-Mar-08 at 7:14 pm | Permalink
The whole thing took forever to open up.
Saskboy | 16-Mar-08 at 9:37 pm | Permalink
Testing comments after switching back to Akismet.