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verbminxDid I mention earlier that I slept for something like 14 hours last night? I went to bed a bit after 4AM and woke up at 7PM. Then I opened some silly horoscope thing I get in the mail every day, and it said "Sleep is the most productive thing you can do today." I'm hungry but I want to sleep soon. I could make myself an egg sandwich, or wait another hour until McDonald's opens (shame! the shame!) and let them make me an egg mcmuffin, but the healthiest thing to do would be to try to get to sleep.
I'm embarrassed to be on pins & needles re the Felicity repremiere tonight. Heh.
I played a long game of Bejeweled: The Obsession (hitherto referred to as "BTO", soon to be available in limited edition board-sets, blah blah blah...) and made it to almost 6K without trying. Mechanically clickclickettyclicking away. It's almost zen. (well, if "evil brainsuck" and "zen" can be used interchangably... you think?)
I read more of TMM tonight (even though I really want to finish Georgiana & get into Deus lo Volt!), and found some web resources for studying it. Mann suggested that it be read twice through before a reader tries to make sense of it. It's 700pp long and I'm not that enthralled with it, so I doubt that's going to happen. But I'm on about p130 (of Woods) and noticing motifs already. Symbolism of Krokowski's office lighting, etc. I wish that just once, Our Hero could be called Hans (simply Hans!) and not Hans Castorp. I don't care for Clavdia; think that her "slavic openness" these study guides mention is a racial stereotype, but then, each of the characters in this book is meant to be just such a thing, various types of people and national characters found around Europe prior to WW1.
I have to admit I'm going a little mad with boredom. I have a pretty serious GI infection and I have to work out a treatment for it (I've had it before, and it requires a nastily restricted diet, so I have to make a list and do the shopping and some cooking for it). At the same time, the air up north did me some good. Until I took my big spill, Autumn even said that I was looking a lot healthier than I had in a while. I had more energy & was getting used to walking a few miles a day. However, since I came home it's been hot and I haven't had definite opportunities for activity or exercise. So I've been feeling a little better than usual, but I'm bored. I desperately need to find more in-house activity, and I desperately need to get out more, be more social, even if it's just something like joining a few support groups (there is a fibromyalgia support group - I don't know if it takes CFIDS people, though - and I'd also like to find some kind of knitting group). I'm stir-crazy. There is always the option of sorting through my (too much) stuff, which I'm sure I'll take, but I need to have more out-of-the-house activities that are not being driven to a bookstore by my mother, where I sit for a few hours and then am driven home.
I tried to do this survey that I got from the delectable Sparklegirl. It was about favorite music, least favorite music, etc. But my tastes are not defined enough for that. I have at least 4 or 5 "favorite bands" and a ton of solo artists I adore. I can say that Cocteau Twins and The Cure are probably my top favorites, but I have so many others. So it didn't work out, and if you want to see the survey or (heaven forfend) answer it, you should just go look at her journal page and pick it up for yourself.
I'm embarrassed to be on pins & needles re the Felicity repremiere tonight. Heh.
I played a long game of Bejeweled: The Obsession (hitherto referred to as "BTO", soon to be available in limited edition board-sets, blah blah blah...) and made it to almost 6K without trying. Mechanically clickclickettyclicking away. It's almost zen. (well, if "evil brainsuck" and "zen" can be used interchangably... you think?)
I read more of TMM tonight (even though I really want to finish Georgiana & get into Deus lo Volt!), and found some web resources for studying it. Mann suggested that it be read twice through before a reader tries to make sense of it. It's 700pp long and I'm not that enthralled with it, so I doubt that's going to happen. But I'm on about p130 (of Woods) and noticing motifs already. Symbolism of Krokowski's office lighting, etc. I wish that just once, Our Hero could be called Hans (simply Hans!) and not Hans Castorp. I don't care for Clavdia; think that her "slavic openness" these study guides mention is a racial stereotype, but then, each of the characters in this book is meant to be just such a thing, various types of people and national characters found around Europe prior to WW1.
I have to admit I'm going a little mad with boredom. I have a pretty serious GI infection and I have to work out a treatment for it (I've had it before, and it requires a nastily restricted diet, so I have to make a list and do the shopping and some cooking for it). At the same time, the air up north did me some good. Until I took my big spill, Autumn even said that I was looking a lot healthier than I had in a while. I had more energy & was getting used to walking a few miles a day. However, since I came home it's been hot and I haven't had definite opportunities for activity or exercise. So I've been feeling a little better than usual, but I'm bored. I desperately need to find more in-house activity, and I desperately need to get out more, be more social, even if it's just something like joining a few support groups (there is a fibromyalgia support group - I don't know if it takes CFIDS people, though - and I'd also like to find some kind of knitting group). I'm stir-crazy. There is always the option of sorting through my (too much) stuff, which I'm sure I'll take, but I need to have more out-of-the-house activities that are not being driven to a bookstore by my mother, where I sit for a few hours and then am driven home.
I tried to do this survey that I got from the delectable Sparklegirl. It was about favorite music, least favorite music, etc. But my tastes are not defined enough for that. I have at least 4 or 5 "favorite bands" and a ton of solo artists I adore. I can say that Cocteau Twins and The Cure are probably my top favorites, but I have so many others. So it didn't work out, and if you want to see the survey or (heaven forfend) answer it, you should just go look at her journal page and pick it up for yourself.
