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1. I saw the Shakespeare Meme going around, and...the only Shakespeare plays that I remember seeing are:
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2. Depressed and tired. Procrastinating making dinner. Hunted through my "meetup groups" to find something socially to do. But alas, it's all dinners and drink socials. OR painting and drinks in a park on a sheet. Or drawing naked people. OR scavenger hunts with alcohol and 100s of people after work no less. Or all day hikes in New Jersey, which requires a car.

Eh. no.

I'll probably go to church on Sunday, or try to, and maybe catch a movie after. Been a really bad summer for me socially speaking. Last year was much better. This could be adding to my depression. Well that and the state of the world at the moment.

We had two more mass shootings. This time in Texas and Ohio. ( rant )

And people wonder why I'm watching Marvel movies.

3. Finished We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix -- which won the Good Reads Award for Best Cult Horror Novel. (The taste of the folks on Good Reads continues to boggle my mind. It got a few other awards too. I do not know why. I think people liked the overall theme -- which is sort of screamed at you repeatedly throughout the book, then posted in big letters at the end, just in case you did not get it. Uplifting its not, inspiring maybe, if you are into heavy metal music, Dolly Parton, and steel string guitars and like Stephen King light.)

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1. Well, talked myself into buying the Kindle versions of White Fragility and Black is my Body - Stories from my Grandmothers, my Mothers and my Time by Emily Bernard.

Flirted with the audio versions, but the Kindle were cheaper. Also I don't listen to books well...my attention wanders. I need to look at the words. My parents are the same way, as is my brother, so this my be a genetic thing?

I bought the books for Church Book Discussions. I've already read one of the three books they are discussing -- "Where the Crawdad's Sing".

Also reading the books will help with the novel I'm writing. I'm writing a book about an African-American female Iraqi/Afghanistan War Veteran, who defused bombs under a covert Government operation -- who was presumed dead by the man she loved.
The man is a queer white, highly successful sex therapist/nightclub owner.

I know, it's weird. I got annoyed at the contemporary romance novels I'd been reading, so began to create my own. I wanted to subvert the gender trope. Make the woman tough as nails, she's an auto mechanic, bomb defuser, and kick boxer. And he's a singer, therapist, and softer around the edges. Also she's black and he's white.
She's straight and he's queer. Both have inherited wealth -- so I threw the whole money/classicism thing out the window.

Probably doesn't work, most likely won't ever get published. But it won't let go of me, so I'm writing it regardless. Sometimes finishing a novel that may not work as a published novel, opens up another novel that will. That's what happened last time.

Also, it's worth noting that I tend to write for myself anyhow.

Of the two books, I purchased, the second one looks more interesting and less aggravating. We shall see if I can read either.

2. I don't know if I'm getting hot flashes...or something else. I get really warm one moment and cold the next, then it passes. I'd think it was a fever, but I sweat. So hot flashes? Had them before, but don't remember feeling chilled afterwards.

3. This is somewhat disconcerting -- I've been noticing that I've been increasingly typing the wrong word in posts. Such as "heard" instead of "hard", or "Fictional" instead of "fiction", or forgetting words here and there. And I don't realize it until long after the fact. As if some gremlin is typing this instead of me.
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