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Mar. 17th, 2024 06:22 pmGoing to attempt to go back to the office tomorrow. Hopefully won't cough on the way, or at the office. Coughed less today - although I did launch into a coughing fit at the grocery store checkout lane for no apparent reason. I've no clue why. It ended after I left. I don't know if I inhaled something I was allergic too, or if something tickled the throat. But it was annoying and involved a lot of coughing into my my sleeve and apologizing profusely.
Every night like clockwork - I wake up at 3-3:30 am and cough for about an hour and a half, then when I'm about to consider od'ing on cough meds to put myself out of my misery - it stops. I do not cough most of day, just in spasms, usually in the evening.
Had another sinus migraine headache today - which I could not quite decide was due to the blood sugar dropping (having not had lunch) or sinuses. I decided to have the rest of the Red Bean Soup (Annie's Organic Soups) that I'd fixed last night. Along with an apple with lemon juice, cinnamon, dipped in chocolate. Up went the blood sugar. Took a walk to get groceries.
Down went the blood sugar.
But the headache appears to be gone at least. I started watching or binging the Web/Streaming Soap The Bay on Prime. It's fun. And there's no commercials - which is odd. I'm trying to figure out Prime's policy on this? And am at a loss. Each segment is thirty minutes if that. And it kind of requires a bit of figuring out - as to what is going on. Because the action like in all soaps starts in the middle, and we flashback as to what actually happened. It doesn't require a high level of attention.
Last night watched the movie musical The Color Purple - which had been nominated for multiple film awards this year and last year - it came out in 2023. It was better than expected. I've read the book and seen the Spielberg Film. But couldn't remember most of it. (I read the book in high school in the 1980s, and saw the Spielberg Film shortly thereafter.) This has Alice Walker involved in the adaptation. It's basically the musical based on Spielberg's film adaptation.
The songs are good, and it works as a musical. Not everything does. This does - because of Shug Avery who is a singer in it. Also, the musical aspects help bridge various stories and push the plot and character arcs forward, not to mention highlight the uplifting moments in the story - since there's bits that are rather brutal. (It highlights spousal abuse, and foster parent rape among other things.) I felt, however, that it kind of demphasized the sexual relationship between Shrug and Celie, that was more apparent in the book. I can't remember Spielberg's movie. But in the book - it's clear that Celie finds her pleasure in women, and falls in love with Shug Avery. At least that's what I remember from it - I may have remembered it wrong? The book - I adored as an adolescent - the epistolary style of it, and the idea of being beautiful but not seen.
Very heavy on Jazz, Blues and Swing - so I enjoyed it. I love Jazz, Blues and Swing.
Still making my way through Yellowjacket - which has several paragraphs on cultural sensitivity readers. I can't quite decide if I'm supposed to be annoyed at the idea of cultural sensitivity readers, appalled, or impressed that they have them now and all for it? Guessing the last bit. There's a clever bit - where the anti-hero (June's) agent is asked to get Candice (the junior editor) who is requesting the sensitivity read to back off. The agent (Brett) asks if Candice can't just be the sensitivity reader for a book about the Chinese Labor Movement during WWI by a non-Asian writer? Candice retorts back that no, she can't, because she's Korean not Chinese. I smiled. ( Read more... )
The difficulty I'm having with Yellowface is that RF Kuang's Athena and June kind of comes across as a wee bit...entitled to me. And whiny. I may need to read her fantasy novels to get a better read on this?
The cultural sensitivity thing I'm on the fence about. ( basically me figuring out where I stand on this and arguing with myself about it, I do that a lot, not being one to ever take anything at face value. )
Every night like clockwork - I wake up at 3-3:30 am and cough for about an hour and a half, then when I'm about to consider od'ing on cough meds to put myself out of my misery - it stops. I do not cough most of day, just in spasms, usually in the evening.
Had another sinus migraine headache today - which I could not quite decide was due to the blood sugar dropping (having not had lunch) or sinuses. I decided to have the rest of the Red Bean Soup (Annie's Organic Soups) that I'd fixed last night. Along with an apple with lemon juice, cinnamon, dipped in chocolate. Up went the blood sugar. Took a walk to get groceries.
Down went the blood sugar.
But the headache appears to be gone at least. I started watching or binging the Web/Streaming Soap The Bay on Prime. It's fun. And there's no commercials - which is odd. I'm trying to figure out Prime's policy on this? And am at a loss. Each segment is thirty minutes if that. And it kind of requires a bit of figuring out - as to what is going on. Because the action like in all soaps starts in the middle, and we flashback as to what actually happened. It doesn't require a high level of attention.
Last night watched the movie musical The Color Purple - which had been nominated for multiple film awards this year and last year - it came out in 2023. It was better than expected. I've read the book and seen the Spielberg Film. But couldn't remember most of it. (I read the book in high school in the 1980s, and saw the Spielberg Film shortly thereafter.) This has Alice Walker involved in the adaptation. It's basically the musical based on Spielberg's film adaptation.
The songs are good, and it works as a musical. Not everything does. This does - because of Shug Avery who is a singer in it. Also, the musical aspects help bridge various stories and push the plot and character arcs forward, not to mention highlight the uplifting moments in the story - since there's bits that are rather brutal. (It highlights spousal abuse, and foster parent rape among other things.) I felt, however, that it kind of demphasized the sexual relationship between Shrug and Celie, that was more apparent in the book. I can't remember Spielberg's movie. But in the book - it's clear that Celie finds her pleasure in women, and falls in love with Shug Avery. At least that's what I remember from it - I may have remembered it wrong? The book - I adored as an adolescent - the epistolary style of it, and the idea of being beautiful but not seen.
Very heavy on Jazz, Blues and Swing - so I enjoyed it. I love Jazz, Blues and Swing.
Still making my way through Yellowjacket - which has several paragraphs on cultural sensitivity readers. I can't quite decide if I'm supposed to be annoyed at the idea of cultural sensitivity readers, appalled, or impressed that they have them now and all for it? Guessing the last bit. There's a clever bit - where the anti-hero (June's) agent is asked to get Candice (the junior editor) who is requesting the sensitivity read to back off. The agent (Brett) asks if Candice can't just be the sensitivity reader for a book about the Chinese Labor Movement during WWI by a non-Asian writer? Candice retorts back that no, she can't, because she's Korean not Chinese. I smiled. ( Read more... )
The difficulty I'm having with Yellowface is that RF Kuang's Athena and June kind of comes across as a wee bit...entitled to me. And whiny. I may need to read her fantasy novels to get a better read on this?
The cultural sensitivity thing I'm on the fence about. ( basically me figuring out where I stand on this and arguing with myself about it, I do that a lot, not being one to ever take anything at face value. )