Item: Finished my fifth book (

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I thought I had more to talk about, but I guess not. I'm off now to have breakfast and look at the newspaper, and then head out in an hour or so for a faux-European day (an Irish film this afternoon (The Wind That Shakes the Barley), a belated birthday dinner with my sister at a Spanish restaurant, and finally a concert of Russian music (Rachmaninoff's "Vespers") to cap things off). And tomorrow it's a visit to my folks and then playing in the political sandbox.
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ETA: For the sake of accuracy (not that it really matters to anyone but me, I suppose), I didn't manage to see The Wind That Shakes the Barley on Saturday. Instead, I saw Mira Nair's new film The Namesake. Barley is still on the "films to be seen list", though.