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shadowkatMigraine headache from hell has basically taken over my weekend. It's breaking up finally - now that it is raining. Making me think that it was a barometric pressure headache? It's hard to think, concentrate,
Has anything profound happened in my life? I've honestly no idea. I'm only 57, so it may still happen. I guess it depends on how we define it? I think people like to judge others, as opposed to being curious about them? Is that profound?
I guess just being born is profound? Or watching someone smile? Or birds dancing across the sky? Or the dance of fireflies in the backyard as we race to catch them? Starring at an eclipse of the moon? Starring out at the expanse of the grand canyon or a field of flowers. Knowing we're not as important as we all think we are? Nor as insignificant?
I don't know. It was a random post on Twitter that I glanced at before another bout of the headache from hell over took me this afternoon.
It's dissipated now, obviously. Or I'd not be writing this post. I listened to an audiobook dramatization most of the day, and the church service on FB (about multi-tudes of choices and being open to people and things, I think? I liked the music, but can't remember most of it - I dosed off during it, partly due to the headache). It's made me a little irritable and depressed, although at the moment, I'm mostly relieved that it appears to be dissipating. The headache felt interminable.
Television watching? I'm still in a bit of a slump, nothing is really grabbing me (well outside of the soap I watch with my mother via the phone, which is more routine, kind of like watching the news or sports or Jeopardy?).
* Baby Reindeer is getting the reviews - but Netflix kicked me out when I tried it. And I'm not sure I can watch it? The subject matter is triggering. It deals with bullying, stalking, and rape. Victim blaming ( a big thing in our society), and not believing the victim. It's also a comedy - a dark comedy. I don't know if I can handle that right now. Even time I read about it I cringe.
* Hack Your Health - a look inside the Gut - documentary on Netflix. I loved this - it was fascinating. They actually got some interesting experts, and it's a documentary based on the non-fiction book written by a leading gastrointestinologist in Germany. I found it comforting. They take four different people and examine their gut health, all the while providing information and practical advice on how to heal the gut, and why it works the way it does. Heavy emphasis on eating plenty of vegetables and fruits all week long.
* Dead Boys Detectives - it's okay. I liked Lockwood & Company better, this felt a bit stilted and awkward in places. Choppy? I also found some of the characters to be cringe inducing or awkward. Comes from Gaiman's Sandman Universe. The Dead Boys are ghosts who are evading Death to solve crimes no one cares about with a teen psychic who can see them, and who is running from the demon that they exercised out of her. It is very Neil Gaiman in places, which is a good thing and a bad thing. Not crazy about the casting, wish it was better. Although at least the leads don't look exactly. alike.
* Fallout - I went back to it, after someone raved about it on Twitter. It gets better as it goes. The third episode was better than the first two, and the pacing picks up. Also it doesn't quite go the way I expected. The lead female protagonist starts out as...kind of dumb? But by the end of the third episode she seems to figure some things out. It is ironically funny in places - but gross sight gags don't really work for me? (ie. She's caring a head around by the hair in the desert, instead of just putting it in the bag - and I'm distracted by this. Why not just put it in the bag? Doesn't it smell?)
* Vampire Diaries - decided to try a re-watch. And had forgotten how bad the pilot episode truly is - or cheesy. We have mist. A crow. And a shadowy figure. (Luckily they do away with that sometime around the end of the first season and beginning of the second. I'm guessing the fog machine got expensive? Or the crow did?) There's a lot of series on television that you really have to make through the first ten episodes to get to the meat of the series and be hooked. Vamp Diaries is among them. Makes it hard to re-watch. Because skipping over those ten episodes isn't always a good idea, since they set up the world and the characters.
* Bodies - I need to try this when I'm not suffering from a migraine headache. I was having troubles following or caring, it was interesting, but just Sahara in the 21st Century's story intrigued me.
* Infinity Crisis - Across Multiple Worlds - DC animated series Part I (MAX) - I wanted to see this for a while now, but I do not like the animated style. (It's very similar to Invinceable and Archer - and doesn't quite work for me. I'm picky, probably too picky. But there it is.)
Books?
* I know I should give up on "YellowFace" but I can't for some reason or other. It's a horror story/satire about the publishing industry. But as is often true with satire, I can't always tell where the satire ends and the truth begins? For example? She has the white female protagonist go to DC's Chinatown, to eat at decrepit Chinese restaurant, and acts like the woman has never been to a Chinese restaurant before. I find this hard to believe. Also that she'd go to a gross, dirty restaurant, with no one in it, order something she hates, and actually think - "I shouldn't think like a white person in a Chinese Restaurant." I was thrown out of the story. But I'm guessing that may be meant to be satiric? I'm just not sure? There's a lot of cringe - embarrassment humor in this novel that is borderline racist and somewhat self-righteous that is triggering me.
My other difficulty with it - is the horror aspects are kind of triggering. It has that in common with Baby Reindeer.
* I'm really enjoying the audio dramatizations of the Kate Daniels books.
Has anything profound happened in my life? I've honestly no idea. I'm only 57, so it may still happen. I guess it depends on how we define it? I think people like to judge others, as opposed to being curious about them? Is that profound?
I guess just being born is profound? Or watching someone smile? Or birds dancing across the sky? Or the dance of fireflies in the backyard as we race to catch them? Starring at an eclipse of the moon? Starring out at the expanse of the grand canyon or a field of flowers. Knowing we're not as important as we all think we are? Nor as insignificant?
I don't know. It was a random post on Twitter that I glanced at before another bout of the headache from hell over took me this afternoon.
It's dissipated now, obviously. Or I'd not be writing this post. I listened to an audiobook dramatization most of the day, and the church service on FB (about multi-tudes of choices and being open to people and things, I think? I liked the music, but can't remember most of it - I dosed off during it, partly due to the headache). It's made me a little irritable and depressed, although at the moment, I'm mostly relieved that it appears to be dissipating. The headache felt interminable.
Television watching? I'm still in a bit of a slump, nothing is really grabbing me (well outside of the soap I watch with my mother via the phone, which is more routine, kind of like watching the news or sports or Jeopardy?).
* Baby Reindeer is getting the reviews - but Netflix kicked me out when I tried it. And I'm not sure I can watch it? The subject matter is triggering. It deals with bullying, stalking, and rape. Victim blaming ( a big thing in our society), and not believing the victim. It's also a comedy - a dark comedy. I don't know if I can handle that right now. Even time I read about it I cringe.
* Hack Your Health - a look inside the Gut - documentary on Netflix. I loved this - it was fascinating. They actually got some interesting experts, and it's a documentary based on the non-fiction book written by a leading gastrointestinologist in Germany. I found it comforting. They take four different people and examine their gut health, all the while providing information and practical advice on how to heal the gut, and why it works the way it does. Heavy emphasis on eating plenty of vegetables and fruits all week long.
* Dead Boys Detectives - it's okay. I liked Lockwood & Company better, this felt a bit stilted and awkward in places. Choppy? I also found some of the characters to be cringe inducing or awkward. Comes from Gaiman's Sandman Universe. The Dead Boys are ghosts who are evading Death to solve crimes no one cares about with a teen psychic who can see them, and who is running from the demon that they exercised out of her. It is very Neil Gaiman in places, which is a good thing and a bad thing. Not crazy about the casting, wish it was better. Although at least the leads don't look exactly. alike.
* Fallout - I went back to it, after someone raved about it on Twitter. It gets better as it goes. The third episode was better than the first two, and the pacing picks up. Also it doesn't quite go the way I expected. The lead female protagonist starts out as...kind of dumb? But by the end of the third episode she seems to figure some things out. It is ironically funny in places - but gross sight gags don't really work for me? (ie. She's caring a head around by the hair in the desert, instead of just putting it in the bag - and I'm distracted by this. Why not just put it in the bag? Doesn't it smell?)
* Vampire Diaries - decided to try a re-watch. And had forgotten how bad the pilot episode truly is - or cheesy. We have mist. A crow. And a shadowy figure. (Luckily they do away with that sometime around the end of the first season and beginning of the second. I'm guessing the fog machine got expensive? Or the crow did?) There's a lot of series on television that you really have to make through the first ten episodes to get to the meat of the series and be hooked. Vamp Diaries is among them. Makes it hard to re-watch. Because skipping over those ten episodes isn't always a good idea, since they set up the world and the characters.
* Bodies - I need to try this when I'm not suffering from a migraine headache. I was having troubles following or caring, it was interesting, but just Sahara in the 21st Century's story intrigued me.
* Infinity Crisis - Across Multiple Worlds - DC animated series Part I (MAX) - I wanted to see this for a while now, but I do not like the animated style. (It's very similar to Invinceable and Archer - and doesn't quite work for me. I'm picky, probably too picky. But there it is.)
Books?
* I know I should give up on "YellowFace" but I can't for some reason or other. It's a horror story/satire about the publishing industry. But as is often true with satire, I can't always tell where the satire ends and the truth begins? For example? She has the white female protagonist go to DC's Chinatown, to eat at decrepit Chinese restaurant, and acts like the woman has never been to a Chinese restaurant before. I find this hard to believe. Also that she'd go to a gross, dirty restaurant, with no one in it, order something she hates, and actually think - "I shouldn't think like a white person in a Chinese Restaurant." I was thrown out of the story. But I'm guessing that may be meant to be satiric? I'm just not sure? There's a lot of cringe - embarrassment humor in this novel that is borderline racist and somewhat self-righteous that is triggering me.
My other difficulty with it - is the horror aspects are kind of triggering. It has that in common with Baby Reindeer.
* I'm really enjoying the audio dramatizations of the Kate Daniels books.