Sunday afternoon operatic radio blogging
Happiness is coming home from an afternoon’s grocery-store trip, turning on the Sunday Opera Matinee in mid-broadcast, thinking "hey, is that Strauss?" and then realizing, as the strains of Baron Ochs’s waltz emerge from the radio, that they’re playing Der Rosenkavalier, and one has arrived home in time to hear all of the last act.
…Well, happiness if you’re me, at any rate. Now if you’ll excuse me, Act Three has already begun and I don’t want to miss the Trio at the end.
(Updated slightly later to link to an especially apt quotation courtesy of About Last Night.)
Oh that sounds like happiness in the extreme. Well done.