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shadowkat1. Did laundry this morning -- bright and early, around 7:30-8AM, around a guy who got there at 6 am - and had taken all but one washer. He had a one year old. I took the left-over washer, and sat and waited for his to finish, because after me, a guy with an 18 month year old popped up. Then after I filled two washers -- and took out the clothes from the washer I had filled (I had warm delicates, towels, and cold delicates - so three washers) and put in the dryer or took upstairs to hang dry, another person showed up. We only have four washers (three small, one big) and three dryers. So, I sort of coordinated around people. It was a bit more stressful than usual, because I'm leaving for a trip on Thursday morning, bright and early, and have to get laundry in before then. And I work Monday - Wed, and the laundry is only open from 6AM-8PM, with half of the people in the apartment doing it on Sunday morning. (No, people don't go to church any more or they are Jewish -- and do it on Saturday.)
2. During laundry, a sick sinus headache started to build -- I felt off at any rate. Pretty much felt off all morning. I was partly doing laundry in the morning because I'd hoped to hang out with a friend I hadn't seen in a while in the afternoon -- but cancelled because I didn't feel well. Put it down to not eating breakfast before laundry, so had an omelet. It made me feel a little better but not much. Then called my friend back, we talked for a while about a lot of things. (We've known each other since roughly 1985, and have met each others families.)
Still felt off, but figured I have lunch, a dessert I bought yesterday (some meringue and cream concoction), and watched "Grand Hotel" -- a mostly Hispanic soap located in Miami created by Eva Longeria. (It's okay. Better than most of the summer series I've seen to date, but not great either. I'll be surprised if it lasts.)
And after it? I got up to look for something and careened across my living room as if I were on the deck of a ship, during a rocky passage. I steadied myself, wandered into the bedroom, found what I was looking for (a hot pink, linen swimsuit cover up that fit better when I was fifty pounds lighter), and almost lost my balance. The room started to spin. I sat down. Then got up and took two tynenol sinus + pressure pills. And put ice on my neck.
Didn't do any good. The vertigo came back. Lay down. The bed spun. Closed my eyes.
It stopped. Then it would start again. This went on from about 1pm to roughly 6pm.
I took two antihistimines, including xzyafal -- the stronger version of Loratadine.
And that finally began to clear it up by about 7pm.
What does it feel like? Being seasick. It's the worst feeling in the world. You can't go anywhere. You can't lie down. The best position is to sit up or head between knees and don't move the head at all. I rubbed the back of my head, that helps, and take antihistimines -- which helps. I call it the vertigo headache from hell.
A year or so ago, I'd get them every other weekend, and they'd last almost all weekend. It's a sinus headache, in which sinus fluid builds behind on near the inner ear and throws off balance and causes naseau -- and it makes migraines seem like a walk in the park (I know I've had migraines). I was afraid to leave my apartment until it cleared up - well after 7:00, which was too late for me to really do anything. Had no pre-arranged plans.
I fear getting it on plane flights or traveling. I may take anithistimines with me, and prior to leaving on Thursday morning, along with the Tynenol Sinus med (which is acematephine and phenylphrine. I can't take sudephredrine due to blood pressure and my tremor -- it causes anxiety and my blood pressure to sky-rocket. Although the advil and xzyafal combo worked better today.
All plans went out the window today. I'd intended to take a walk outside -- it was a pretty day and 85 degrees, but alas no. I stayed in and watched tv. Couldn't work on my book or write or read...it wouldn't let me.
3. Started watching Little Drummer Girl finally. This is the Limited Series that appeared on AMC way back in November. I haven't been in the mood to watch it until now -- it kept putting me to sleep. But today, recovering from vertigo headache from hell -- it captivated me for some reason. Binged three hours of it. Have three to go.
It stars Michael Sheen, Alexander Skarsgard, and Florence Pugh, and is much better than expected. (You do have to be in the mood for it though, since the first episode is told in a somewhat jarring out of order narrative style, and it's well adapted from a John Le Carre novel and Le Carre requires concentration. Fluffy, this isn't.)
"Little Drummer Girl" is actually the only Le Carre novel that I've actually read outside of maybe The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. And I wouldn't say the novel is very good -- nor was the film adaptation with Diane Keaton. This miniseries however is exceptionally good -- if you are in the right mood for it. It's deeply serious, has a sly dry wit, and requires a lot of concentration -- plus a bit on the dour side, with muted colors -- feels like it was filmed in the seventies, and I can't help but wonder if that's the intended time period? Has a 70s feel to it.
The acting is superb. Skarsgaard disappears into his role, as do the others. And it's morally ambiguous like all of Le Carre -- in which it's not entirely clear who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. The Mossad (the Israelis) aren't that much better than the Palestine Terrorists they are fighting, and they go to the same level -- justifying their actions -- because they are going after terrorists.
Charlie aka the Drummer Girl, who cares about both sides and wants a more pacifist result, after her own background playing with the radical left in London...gets manipulated into joining the Mossad's clandestine sting on the Palestine terrorists.
She's basically employed to go undercover with the terrorists. And how they convince her to do it, why they do, and how they prepare her for it -- is fascinating and well-played. Also compelling -- and rather disturbing at the same time, to both Charlie and the viewer. Depicting how easy it is to get manipulated into thinking a certain way, and justifying certain actions for a cause you believe is just.
Worth a look at any rate, if you can find it.
4. Banter with Chidi about God on Friday.. (Chidi by the way disposed of his glasses and is wearing contacts, possibly so he will look less like Chidi.)
Chidi: So you have ceiliac? That's real?
Me: Yep.
Chidi: So God really spent a lot of time working on you didn't he? Lots of layers there?
Me: Yes, it thought -- hey, I'll make her celiac too, and not let her get diagnosed with it until 2005 -- just to see how she handles it. That will be fun.
Chidi: Wait, "It"?
Me: Or the Universe, whichever. It has a wicked sense of humor.
I refuse to give God a gender. I don't believe in a personal God. I believe in force that is beyond human understanding or imagination. We don't understand nature or ourselves, why would we understand god?
2. During laundry, a sick sinus headache started to build -- I felt off at any rate. Pretty much felt off all morning. I was partly doing laundry in the morning because I'd hoped to hang out with a friend I hadn't seen in a while in the afternoon -- but cancelled because I didn't feel well. Put it down to not eating breakfast before laundry, so had an omelet. It made me feel a little better but not much. Then called my friend back, we talked for a while about a lot of things. (We've known each other since roughly 1985, and have met each others families.)
Still felt off, but figured I have lunch, a dessert I bought yesterday (some meringue and cream concoction), and watched "Grand Hotel" -- a mostly Hispanic soap located in Miami created by Eva Longeria. (It's okay. Better than most of the summer series I've seen to date, but not great either. I'll be surprised if it lasts.)
And after it? I got up to look for something and careened across my living room as if I were on the deck of a ship, during a rocky passage. I steadied myself, wandered into the bedroom, found what I was looking for (a hot pink, linen swimsuit cover up that fit better when I was fifty pounds lighter), and almost lost my balance. The room started to spin. I sat down. Then got up and took two tynenol sinus + pressure pills. And put ice on my neck.
Didn't do any good. The vertigo came back. Lay down. The bed spun. Closed my eyes.
It stopped. Then it would start again. This went on from about 1pm to roughly 6pm.
I took two antihistimines, including xzyafal -- the stronger version of Loratadine.
And that finally began to clear it up by about 7pm.
What does it feel like? Being seasick. It's the worst feeling in the world. You can't go anywhere. You can't lie down. The best position is to sit up or head between knees and don't move the head at all. I rubbed the back of my head, that helps, and take antihistimines -- which helps. I call it the vertigo headache from hell.
A year or so ago, I'd get them every other weekend, and they'd last almost all weekend. It's a sinus headache, in which sinus fluid builds behind on near the inner ear and throws off balance and causes naseau -- and it makes migraines seem like a walk in the park (I know I've had migraines). I was afraid to leave my apartment until it cleared up - well after 7:00, which was too late for me to really do anything. Had no pre-arranged plans.
I fear getting it on plane flights or traveling. I may take anithistimines with me, and prior to leaving on Thursday morning, along with the Tynenol Sinus med (which is acematephine and phenylphrine. I can't take sudephredrine due to blood pressure and my tremor -- it causes anxiety and my blood pressure to sky-rocket. Although the advil and xzyafal combo worked better today.
All plans went out the window today. I'd intended to take a walk outside -- it was a pretty day and 85 degrees, but alas no. I stayed in and watched tv. Couldn't work on my book or write or read...it wouldn't let me.
3. Started watching Little Drummer Girl finally. This is the Limited Series that appeared on AMC way back in November. I haven't been in the mood to watch it until now -- it kept putting me to sleep. But today, recovering from vertigo headache from hell -- it captivated me for some reason. Binged three hours of it. Have three to go.
It stars Michael Sheen, Alexander Skarsgard, and Florence Pugh, and is much better than expected. (You do have to be in the mood for it though, since the first episode is told in a somewhat jarring out of order narrative style, and it's well adapted from a John Le Carre novel and Le Carre requires concentration. Fluffy, this isn't.)
"Little Drummer Girl" is actually the only Le Carre novel that I've actually read outside of maybe The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. And I wouldn't say the novel is very good -- nor was the film adaptation with Diane Keaton. This miniseries however is exceptionally good -- if you are in the right mood for it. It's deeply serious, has a sly dry wit, and requires a lot of concentration -- plus a bit on the dour side, with muted colors -- feels like it was filmed in the seventies, and I can't help but wonder if that's the intended time period? Has a 70s feel to it.
The acting is superb. Skarsgaard disappears into his role, as do the others. And it's morally ambiguous like all of Le Carre -- in which it's not entirely clear who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. The Mossad (the Israelis) aren't that much better than the Palestine Terrorists they are fighting, and they go to the same level -- justifying their actions -- because they are going after terrorists.
Charlie aka the Drummer Girl, who cares about both sides and wants a more pacifist result, after her own background playing with the radical left in London...gets manipulated into joining the Mossad's clandestine sting on the Palestine terrorists.
She's basically employed to go undercover with the terrorists. And how they convince her to do it, why they do, and how they prepare her for it -- is fascinating and well-played. Also compelling -- and rather disturbing at the same time, to both Charlie and the viewer. Depicting how easy it is to get manipulated into thinking a certain way, and justifying certain actions for a cause you believe is just.
Worth a look at any rate, if you can find it.
4. Banter with Chidi about God on Friday.. (Chidi by the way disposed of his glasses and is wearing contacts, possibly so he will look less like Chidi.)
Chidi: So you have ceiliac? That's real?
Me: Yep.
Chidi: So God really spent a lot of time working on you didn't he? Lots of layers there?
Me: Yes, it thought -- hey, I'll make her celiac too, and not let her get diagnosed with it until 2005 -- just to see how she handles it. That will be fun.
Chidi: Wait, "It"?
Me: Or the Universe, whichever. It has a wicked sense of humor.
I refuse to give God a gender. I don't believe in a personal God. I believe in force that is beyond human understanding or imagination. We don't understand nature or ourselves, why would we understand god?
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Date: 2019-07-14 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-14 02:10 pm (UTC)The clothes and hairstyles scream 70s. Although some of those have come back into fashion now (unfortunately) so it's hard to tell. Also the architecture is very 70s, along with the furnishings, computers and radio/tape recorder. Late 70s would make sense to -- since the motivating factor for the Isralei's is the hostage crisis at the Munich Olympics in the late 1960s.
Eh, I finally looked it up. We're right -- late 70s. It was published in 1983, and apparently based on a real person.
The Little Drummer Girl is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1983. The story follows the manipulations of Martin Kurtz, an Israeli spymaster who intends to kill Khalil – a Palestinian terrorist who is bombing Jewish-related targets in Europe, particularly Germany – and Charlie, an English actress and double agent working on behalf of the Israelis. Despite the plot, some reviewers thought it transcended the spy novel genre. "The Little Drummer Girl is about spies", said William F. Buckley, writing in The New York Times, "as Madame Bovary is about adultery or Crime and Punishment about crime." The real-life person believed to be the model for the title character was Janet Lee Stevens – American journalist, human rights advocate, and scholar of Arabic literature nicknamed "the little drummer girl" by Palestinians. She gave John le Carré a tour of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon. She died in the bombing of the U.S. embassy of Beirut in 1983.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Drummer_Girl
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Rotten Tomatoes placed in the late 1970s
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Date: 2019-07-14 04:21 pm (UTC)I've noticed this change. Back when I moved here I used to do grocery shopping on Sunday mornings for that reason, but while it was never empty I've noticed stores got busier and busier. So now since my schedule is flexible I tend to do it on a midweek morning.