Doing without AC for the second year for eco-moral reasons, last night was very hot so went down to the restaurant in my basement for pineapple vegetable fried rice, two tequilas, and a mescal. And then...
Coming home, started to play a Chopin Nocturne (Op 15, No 3 I believe). Always something new to learn...
A. Unique dissonances in this piece I haven't found elsewhere
B. Could just as well have been a Mazurka
C. Tchaikovsky wouldn't exist without Chopin
D. Erik Satie's Gymnopedies wouldn't exist without this particular Nocturne
But in the middle the phone rang. With a few curses, fearing it was a late-night work call, I answered, and it was a very nice-sounding pollster for CNN. He had a zillion questions and most of them had us both laughing...
Like, it was really fun to be able to say of each Republican primary candidate that they were 'extremely unattractive' (unattractive wasn't the word but it was something equally unpleasant.
I had the very strong feeling the pollster agreed with everything I said, and in general I'm to the left of even Bernie.
Then we said a pleasant good evening, and I went back to the piano...
The point is that I had that one little chance to sway the poll results in a way that most of us here would like them to be...