when i look at you, i see the glory in your eyes

[lunabee34]

1. I have an appointment with a rheumatologist for May 26. As it took me 6 months to get my first endocrinologist appointment, I am counting this as a win. Also in the win column, this flare is dying down. I have been much less exhausted and achy over the last few days.

2. A colleague organized a concert reading tonight of a couple of short suffragist plays from the early 1900s, and it was so much fun. My colleague read one character, and students read the others; they dressed in costumes and put on accents, and it was utterly delightful. Not to mention I was really surprised by how funny the plays are; I expected them to be kind of stuffy and moralizing, and instead they were super entertaining. Yay!

3. Josh bought me a Slanket or a Snuggie or whatever you call it for our impending anniversary. I got him file because he kept making sad faces at the gumbo he made last week. LOL I didn't grow up putting file on gumbo because my people are MS Gulf Coast people, but Josh's people were LA transplants to MS so he did. I grew up with seafood gumbo (shrimp and crab bodies and sausage and some chicken but mostly seafood) and had to be convinced that chicken gumbo is worth my time, but OMG Josh's gumbo is worth my time. It's harder to make a rue with gluten free flour, but he is a champ.

4. Week after next is spring break, and the girls have that Monday off, so I think we're going to do a movie day, probably Onward. Looking forward to it.

5. How is the semester half over? This is nuts.

Comments

[kore]

Those suffrage plays sound really fun!

[lunabee34]

OMG, they so were. In the first one, an anti-suffragist canvasser talks to a charwoman who ends up being a suffragist and who has a counter for every one of her arguments about why women shouldn't vote. In the second, a woman slowly reveals to her boyfriend at a ball that he's going to have to sentence her to jail for protesting the next day.

[mecurtin]

Where does one find suffragist plays? Which ones? They sound FASCINATING!

[lunabee34]

I'm not sure where she found them (she's a drama expert), but they're called "A Chat with Mrs. Chicky" and "The Maid and the Magistrate." So much fun.

[timespirt]

I know there is a shortage of Endo docs but I didn't think there was of Rheum's.
Hope you get toi the bottom of everything hon.

Try Gluten-Free Cornstarch if the gluten free flour isn't working out.

I love plays, been going to live ones since a friend turned me on to them.

"HUGS"

[chelseagirl]

Also fascinated by the suffragist plays!

[lunabee34]

See my comment to kore upthread for the content and mecurtin for the titles. :)

[lunabee34]

I think part of it is that we're in a rural area, and it's just hard to attract doctors here. There's a shortage of physicians in all areas.

I love going to plays as well. They're so fun.

*hugs*

[executrix]

If Ophelia makes gumbo, does that mean you must wear your roux with a difference?

[lunabee34]

Ha! Yes!

I love that icon.

[tamsin]

Those suffragist plays sound awesome, what a great event!

[lunabee34]

It was so much fun. See upthread for titles and synopses if you're interested.

[tamsin]

They sounds great. Sadly they do not seem to be in print, though I did find some other suffragist plays.

[lunabee34]

Could they maybe be on internet archive or project Gutenberg?

[amejisuto]

Good luck getting to the doctor's love. If you're like me, all your symptoms will go away by the time you go to see him. LOL.

Have fun at the movies!

[lunabee34]

Ha! That sounds about par for the course. LOL

*hugs*

[oracne]

I am amazed one can make a gluten-free roux.

[lunabee34]

Josh uses garbanzo bean flour. It doesn't have quite the thickening power, and it doesn't get as dark as he'd like. But it is adequate (which sometimes is all you can hope for with gluten free; every piece of gf bread I've ever eaten tops out at adequate with most of them falling in the gross range).

[oracne]

I am fascinated! I've been reading an Alton Brown book for the first time, and it's making me more interested in experiments.

[lunabee34]

I'm going to be honest with you: unless you have celiac or a dietary restriction or someone you love who has one of those you want to bake for, experimenting with gluten free baking is going to be a joyless suck hole. LOL Gluten free baking is mostly, not all but mostly, not good.

Other kinds of gluten free experimentation will be more fruitful. :)

[oracne]

I have two friends with celiac! Well, three, but one is in the UK.

[lunabee34]

Well, then you are the best kind of friend. :)

I don't know what I would do without my friends' willingness to accommodate my dietary needs; it means so much when they make gluten free food for me (and that I can trust them to do it correctly; sometimes people are well-meaning but clueless; I had a colleague who brought donuts to a meeting offer to make me some bread that she was going to make in her bread machine that she makes gluten bread in, and I had to shut that down real quick LOL; it meant a lot that she wanted to do that, but obviously, I couldn't have eaten it).