Wednesday, March 30

Slept late on this very chilly morning, but did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. Mother came over while I was getting ready for the day. She chopped carrots, onions, and celery, while Hubbie peeled potatoes and sliced them in the food processor. Then she simmered the potato and veggie mixture in preparation for making soup for supper.

I did this and that household chores for the remainder of the morning. After lunch, Hubbie peeled another batch of potatoes, which I boiled for making potato salad tomorrow. Mother chopped more celery and onions, as well as bell peppers for the salad.

Then we sat down to watch the rest of the musical stage production of "Les Miserable." This is a wonderful show, and I want to buy the DVD so I can watch it again and again in the future.

When the show was over, Mother finished the potato soup, and I made a batch of bran muffins to go with it. Very satisfying meal on this cool evening.

Mother went home afterward,and Hubbie and I continued watching TV. We saw the 2010 R-rated movie, "Agora," starring Rachel Weisz as the beautiful astronomer and philosopher, Hypatia. In Ancient Egypt, under Roman rule, she leads a group of disciples in a fight to save the wisdom of the Ancient World, after Christians destroyed the great library of Alexandria. She is obsessed with solving the puzzle of how there are seasons of the year during the rotation of the earth around the sun, if the earth revolves in a perfect circle (she finally realizes that the rotation is actually elliptical). She was eventually brutally killed by a Christian mob, who condemned her as a pagan and a witch.