random memories while I work pt.2

- the Doctor Who episode set on Pluto, where people almost never see the sky (Sun Makers?)

- I was young child at a friend's house out in the country housing development suburb area. Either for a birthday party or just visiting. It was an afternoon, possibly a weekend or day off. The rain had been coming down for a while and it was so dark outside that you might think it was night time. The house was bright and warm inside and should have felt like a cosy shelter but all I knew was that I was away from home, with strangers, alone.

- the smell, taste, and overall sensory impression of a dozen small-town attempts at high-class restaurants that I've visited in my life (mainly in my youth). There's no other place quite like a 'classy' restaurant in a rural area.

- for a brief time, actually enjoying Beverly Hills 90210 at the Orchard Street house where my to-be wife and I lived in college...TV on, wintertime, windows glowing after the sun set early and everything was cold and like but unlike coming home from school before dinnertime when I was a young child

- much later, suddenly...getting off the bus in the late afternoon from a school field trip to Canada, to the Shakespearean festival in Stratford...i think it was a weekend day and I think that it was early on in high school or late in junior high...the school was deserted and we didn't go in, which was weird, we just got into cars and drove home after all the traveling and camaraderie

- Dazed and Confused (the Linklater film)