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Y2/285 - Still in Plague House
Dec. 27th, 2021 04:38 pmAfter much or more hemming and hawing, have decided to fork over $275 buckaroos to pay for a PCR test at Main Street Medical tomorrow morning. This is the test the airlines consider accurate, and has a same day turn around. We want to know if this is COVID. I don't think it is or hope it isn't. It could be a cold or RCV, respiratory circulatory virus - which you recover from in two weeks and is the leading cause of bronchitus and pneumonia.
I'm wondering if I should ask for the other two to be tested?? I may when I get there - since I'm paying so much for the one.
I am feeling better. Coughing less. Less congested. Have more energy. Helped by the beautiful weather - clear blue skies, sunshine, in the 70s. Wish I brought shorts - am wearing out the cargo pant capris.
Still have brain fog though. I find it hard to focus on things for long. Or care. Just feel tired most of the time, like I wiped out on my bike or something. Mother and I went to Dolphin Head - a local, but rather unfrequented beach, with a long boardwalk, and a little park. We wandered about briefly, and sat for a bit, then went home. Neither of us were up for much beyond that.
This has been an odd Christmas. None of our plans have gone as expected. But at least we are together - which is better than most folks have.
We have watched a few things...
1. Power of the Dog - a rather creepy film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jess Plemmens, and Kodi..(?). It takes place in Montana in the 1920s. Good, highly recommend, but also unsettling.
2. Tick...tock..Boom! - the adaptation of Jonathan Larson's one-man autobiographical musical by Lin Manuel-Miranda. It's rather good, but takes a while to get into, much like Power of the Dog does, and focus on Larson's attempts to get his musical Suberbia launched via a Broadway workshop. He's told the writing is great but they want to see what he does next, because this isn't it. And to write what he knows. He eventually does. Some great cameos by top-Broadway stars, including a rather good impression of Sondheim by Bradley Whitford.
3. Don't Look Up - Adam Mckay's comedic satire about a pair of astrophysicists who attempt to warn the world that a comet is about to destroy the earth, and their general reaction is "meh". Like VICE - it's too long and needs an editor. Leonardo Dicaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as the physicists, with Meryl Streep as the President, Jonah Hill -- her chief of staff, and Cate Blanchett - a broadcast journalist of a talk show that they keep appearing on. I found it slow, and kind of depressing. Satire doesn't quite amuse when the media has turned everything into one.
4. Finding You - an entertaining YA romance about a violinist who after failing her audition at the conservatory in New York, travels to Ireland on a high school exchange program, the same one her brother did. She meets a famous young actor of fantasy films on a plane. They strike up a rapport. And as part of her course work - forms a friendship with an elderly woman, estranged from her sister (played by Vanessa Redgrave). Also works on her violin with a fiddler - so she can re-audition with the conservatory.
5. Hawkeye - fun. I liked it better than expected. Has some nice twists, and is among the few of the Marvel series that ends without a cliffhanger. It ends neatly. Also, happily. And the actress who plays Kate Bishop is well cast and likable in the role. It's a film that actually focuses more on the female characters than the male lead, and they steal the movie from him. It's more Kate Bishop's film than Renner's. And the other women featured, Maya, and Yelena, are just as strong. Better pacing than Marvel's other efforts as well. Right now, my favorite of the Marvel series, and possibly the only one you can watch without having seen the films. Mother was able to follow it without any problems.
I'm wondering if I should ask for the other two to be tested?? I may when I get there - since I'm paying so much for the one.
I am feeling better. Coughing less. Less congested. Have more energy. Helped by the beautiful weather - clear blue skies, sunshine, in the 70s. Wish I brought shorts - am wearing out the cargo pant capris.
Still have brain fog though. I find it hard to focus on things for long. Or care. Just feel tired most of the time, like I wiped out on my bike or something. Mother and I went to Dolphin Head - a local, but rather unfrequented beach, with a long boardwalk, and a little park. We wandered about briefly, and sat for a bit, then went home. Neither of us were up for much beyond that.
This has been an odd Christmas. None of our plans have gone as expected. But at least we are together - which is better than most folks have.
We have watched a few things...
1. Power of the Dog - a rather creepy film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jess Plemmens, and Kodi..(?). It takes place in Montana in the 1920s. Good, highly recommend, but also unsettling.
2. Tick...tock..Boom! - the adaptation of Jonathan Larson's one-man autobiographical musical by Lin Manuel-Miranda. It's rather good, but takes a while to get into, much like Power of the Dog does, and focus on Larson's attempts to get his musical Suberbia launched via a Broadway workshop. He's told the writing is great but they want to see what he does next, because this isn't it. And to write what he knows. He eventually does. Some great cameos by top-Broadway stars, including a rather good impression of Sondheim by Bradley Whitford.
3. Don't Look Up - Adam Mckay's comedic satire about a pair of astrophysicists who attempt to warn the world that a comet is about to destroy the earth, and their general reaction is "meh". Like VICE - it's too long and needs an editor. Leonardo Dicaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as the physicists, with Meryl Streep as the President, Jonah Hill -- her chief of staff, and Cate Blanchett - a broadcast journalist of a talk show that they keep appearing on. I found it slow, and kind of depressing. Satire doesn't quite amuse when the media has turned everything into one.
4. Finding You - an entertaining YA romance about a violinist who after failing her audition at the conservatory in New York, travels to Ireland on a high school exchange program, the same one her brother did. She meets a famous young actor of fantasy films on a plane. They strike up a rapport. And as part of her course work - forms a friendship with an elderly woman, estranged from her sister (played by Vanessa Redgrave). Also works on her violin with a fiddler - so she can re-audition with the conservatory.
5. Hawkeye - fun. I liked it better than expected. Has some nice twists, and is among the few of the Marvel series that ends without a cliffhanger. It ends neatly. Also, happily. And the actress who plays Kate Bishop is well cast and likable in the role. It's a film that actually focuses more on the female characters than the male lead, and they steal the movie from him. It's more Kate Bishop's film than Renner's. And the other women featured, Maya, and Yelena, are just as strong. Better pacing than Marvel's other efforts as well. Right now, my favorite of the Marvel series, and possibly the only one you can watch without having seen the films. Mother was able to follow it without any problems.