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Mar. 7th, 2018 08:36 pmOw. I went to bed last night, didn't quite fall asleep as quickly as I wanted to thanks to an excess of blankets overheating me but, eh, close enough to on time. Had a long and involved and very vivid dream that was basically the plot of Nerd Girls Save The World and woke up absolutely knackered. As tends to happen when I have vivid dreams but okay, okay already, brain. I get the point.
Extra bonus ow because although I decided what the hell I'm going to start doing the scene by scene at work today, work decided it was going to pile everything on today so I had wholesale orders, a pile of regular mail orders, hey I guess the slump time is over! Augh. Argh. Brain. Hurty. So tired. Don't want to capoeira just because it may involve games and require brain. I could do drills, but one-on-one? Ahahahah fuck that. (Though really if there's a new student one-on-one will only require lizard-brain of 'shit a thing is coming at my head get out of the way' rather than strategic chess playing game so that wouldn't be awful.)
Wednesday Reads. I finished Monkey, an English version of the Journey to the West stories with a focus on the Monkey by David Kherdian. It was all right, I didn't read it for enjoyment but if you like folk tales it's a good translation (I can't vouch for the accuracy) and easy to read. I started The Curse of the Mistwraith finally, rolling around in some nostalgia reading. It's more complex language than I remember but the imagery and characterisation hold up so far. And now I remember why I was obsessed with Arithon and Lysaer, heh. We'll see if that continues when I pick up the rest of the books that I didn't get into.
I also picked up two books from the library that I need to get through relatively soon, one called The Runaway Universe about space science developments and The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh which I read a long time ago, I think it was my mother's copy, and recent events (Dingbat Foccacia) have caused me to think of it again, so I figured I'd pick it up to read it. It might also help me rebalance after the first two months of the year were so fraught. Although I am feeling better now, after a week or two of distance from various forms of argh. Day by day, as nothing chaotic or awful happens, and with lots of sleep and attention to myself.
Extra bonus ow because although I decided what the hell I'm going to start doing the scene by scene at work today, work decided it was going to pile everything on today so I had wholesale orders, a pile of regular mail orders, hey I guess the slump time is over! Augh. Argh. Brain. Hurty. So tired. Don't want to capoeira just because it may involve games and require brain. I could do drills, but one-on-one? Ahahahah fuck that. (Though really if there's a new student one-on-one will only require lizard-brain of 'shit a thing is coming at my head get out of the way' rather than strategic chess playing game so that wouldn't be awful.)
Wednesday Reads. I finished Monkey, an English version of the Journey to the West stories with a focus on the Monkey by David Kherdian. It was all right, I didn't read it for enjoyment but if you like folk tales it's a good translation (I can't vouch for the accuracy) and easy to read. I started The Curse of the Mistwraith finally, rolling around in some nostalgia reading. It's more complex language than I remember but the imagery and characterisation hold up so far. And now I remember why I was obsessed with Arithon and Lysaer, heh. We'll see if that continues when I pick up the rest of the books that I didn't get into.
I also picked up two books from the library that I need to get through relatively soon, one called The Runaway Universe about space science developments and The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh which I read a long time ago, I think it was my mother's copy, and recent events (Dingbat Foccacia) have caused me to think of it again, so I figured I'd pick it up to read it. It might also help me rebalance after the first two months of the year were so fraught. Although I am feeling better now, after a week or two of distance from various forms of argh. Day by day, as nothing chaotic or awful happens, and with lots of sleep and attention to myself.