Cooler with lots of sunshine
Oct. 9th, 2022 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatBut I've been meandering through most of the weekend with brain fog. It doesn't stay, it kind of weaves in and out - the brain fog - so I'm not really certain who the culprit is.
Finally met up with Wales - which was a minor miracle of sorts. I was meeting her at 1PM on the corner of Bergen and Smith streets, which is about fifteen minute subway ride from home, and a five-six minute walk, not including the steps and two minute walk from the platform on her end.
I was prepared - but at the last minute - had to go to the restroom. Then discovered I needed to change my jacket, made it outside, half down the block and realized the shoes weren't working - so changed them. Then left again, made it all the way to the subway platform only to discover I'd left my phone behind.
It's been that sort of year. I don't know if it's the onslaught of menopause, having had COVID (possibly more than once), or the stress that is causing the brain fog...or just living during a pandemic. But it's been weaving in and out for some time now. Wales was struggling with it today too - she just wanted to space out at one point - when I was fine again.
We went into a crowded book shop - and we both felt dizzy, wondering if we had been drugged by the Brunch place - or maybe we're light weights, and a mimosa (myself) and bloody mary (wales) were too much for us.
Me: You at least laugh at my one liners.
Wales: Of course I do, or we wouldn't be friends.
Good to know. Sharing the same sense of humor is an important ingredient in all friendships.
**
Still watching the BBC's documentary series on Africa, which I find comforting and informative. It shows both the wonder and brutality of nature, often simultaneous. And beyond beautiful in its majesty. But also depicts how the planet is changing constantly.
I'm slowly falling in love with Africa's majestic and dangerous beauty. I'd love to go there - but am partly scared to. I love the natural world. It leaves me breathless. And all I need to do is look at it - to see God.
Some, I suppose see the face of God or lack thereof in people, but I see God in the natural world and the infinite expanse of space.
I've come up for a metaphor for my life - I'm a dung beetle attempting to push camel dung up a sand dune in the middle of the Sahara.
**
Alaska Daily pilot was good, and it appears to be worth watching, simultaneously reminding me of why I could have been a really good investigative journalist and why I chose not to. (I have the same pit-bull mentality and intellectual curiosity, also I will drive folks nuts with questions and dig. But I don't like conflict, and I don't like destroying lives even if it is for a good cause.)
Anyhow, I like the lead character played by Swank and the supporting cast.
***
Still working my way through Rings of Power - mainly because I love the character of Galaderial, and find various others fascinating. Also, I'm curious about the back stories of various bits referred to in Lord of the Rings.
Rings of Power isn't exactly published fanfic - for two reasons, 1) the rights were acquired by Amazon to all of Tolkien's published and "unpublished" works, or the side materials. (Many of which I saw on display at the JP Morgan Library back in 2018. The artwork on the covers and inside Tolkien's novels was done by JRR Tolkien - he was an accomplished artist. He designed his own maps, drew the characters, and designed his own covers.) Tolkien was kind of brilliant - or had a brilliant imagination - he created his own elfish language from old English, his own folklore, mythos, and world - and started it at an early age. 2) They are accessing Tolkien's other works [ETA - apparently I'm wrong, it's just the finished published works (Lord of the Rings, Hobbit) along with all the Appendices to those works, the estate won't give anyone the rights to his unfinished stories] and Tolkien created a detailed enough world - that it kind of writes itself.
I'm not just dipping into Tolkien (one of my two childhood fan obsessions), I'm dipping back into Star Wars. I picked up from Amazon on the Kindle, a romance novel about Princess Leia and Han Solo's marriage and courtship post Return of the Jedi, or rather what happened to them immediately after that movie ended. I've always been curious - and kind of want to read a story about it. I found it via Smart Bitches - it's called... Star Wars: The Princess and the Rogue by Beth Evans.
I've always been willing to buy published fanfic relating to Star Wars, weirdly it's the only fandom that I've done that with - possibly because Lucas left a lot off the screen, and I always wanted more.
Finally met up with Wales - which was a minor miracle of sorts. I was meeting her at 1PM on the corner of Bergen and Smith streets, which is about fifteen minute subway ride from home, and a five-six minute walk, not including the steps and two minute walk from the platform on her end.
I was prepared - but at the last minute - had to go to the restroom. Then discovered I needed to change my jacket, made it outside, half down the block and realized the shoes weren't working - so changed them. Then left again, made it all the way to the subway platform only to discover I'd left my phone behind.
It's been that sort of year. I don't know if it's the onslaught of menopause, having had COVID (possibly more than once), or the stress that is causing the brain fog...or just living during a pandemic. But it's been weaving in and out for some time now. Wales was struggling with it today too - she just wanted to space out at one point - when I was fine again.
We went into a crowded book shop - and we both felt dizzy, wondering if we had been drugged by the Brunch place - or maybe we're light weights, and a mimosa (myself) and bloody mary (wales) were too much for us.
Me: You at least laugh at my one liners.
Wales: Of course I do, or we wouldn't be friends.
Good to know. Sharing the same sense of humor is an important ingredient in all friendships.
**
Still watching the BBC's documentary series on Africa, which I find comforting and informative. It shows both the wonder and brutality of nature, often simultaneous. And beyond beautiful in its majesty. But also depicts how the planet is changing constantly.
I'm slowly falling in love with Africa's majestic and dangerous beauty. I'd love to go there - but am partly scared to. I love the natural world. It leaves me breathless. And all I need to do is look at it - to see God.
Some, I suppose see the face of God or lack thereof in people, but I see God in the natural world and the infinite expanse of space.
I've come up for a metaphor for my life - I'm a dung beetle attempting to push camel dung up a sand dune in the middle of the Sahara.
**
Alaska Daily pilot was good, and it appears to be worth watching, simultaneously reminding me of why I could have been a really good investigative journalist and why I chose not to. (I have the same pit-bull mentality and intellectual curiosity, also I will drive folks nuts with questions and dig. But I don't like conflict, and I don't like destroying lives even if it is for a good cause.)
Anyhow, I like the lead character played by Swank and the supporting cast.
***
Still working my way through Rings of Power - mainly because I love the character of Galaderial, and find various others fascinating. Also, I'm curious about the back stories of various bits referred to in Lord of the Rings.
Rings of Power isn't exactly published fanfic - for two reasons, 1) the rights were acquired by Amazon to all of Tolkien's published and "unpublished" works, or the side materials. (Many of which I saw on display at the JP Morgan Library back in 2018. The artwork on the covers and inside Tolkien's novels was done by JRR Tolkien - he was an accomplished artist. He designed his own maps, drew the characters, and designed his own covers.) Tolkien was kind of brilliant - or had a brilliant imagination - he created his own elfish language from old English, his own folklore, mythos, and world - and started it at an early age. 2) They are accessing Tolkien's other works [ETA - apparently I'm wrong, it's just the finished published works (Lord of the Rings, Hobbit) along with all the Appendices to those works, the estate won't give anyone the rights to his unfinished stories] and Tolkien created a detailed enough world - that it kind of writes itself.
I'm not just dipping into Tolkien (one of my two childhood fan obsessions), I'm dipping back into Star Wars. I picked up from Amazon on the Kindle, a romance novel about Princess Leia and Han Solo's marriage and courtship post Return of the Jedi, or rather what happened to them immediately after that movie ended. I've always been curious - and kind of want to read a story about it. I found it via Smart Bitches - it's called... Star Wars: The Princess and the Rogue by Beth Evans.
I've always been willing to buy published fanfic relating to Star Wars, weirdly it's the only fandom that I've done that with - possibly because Lucas left a lot off the screen, and I always wanted more.