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lunabee341. I got a wonderful birthday card from lyr, a box of books (including The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which I am very excited to read) from executrix, and a regular card from 020104isme. Quite the postal haul!
2. This morning the hawk was screeching its head off non-stop. It finally landed right on top of the bird feeder and perched there; I let it sit for awhile so we could admire it and then had Fiona shoo it off. I do not want it to start thinking of the bird feeder as its drive-through. It's beautiful and so big; at first it tried to perch on one of the curved hooks and kept wobbling comically until it perched right on the top finial where all the hooks converge. I can't tell if it's a juvenile or adult or what. It needs to shut up, though. So damn loud. LOL
3. We just watched Nanette, the comedy special on Netflix by Hannah Gadsby, and I cannot recommend it enough. I think it works best if you go into it unspoiled, but it definitely contains material that can be triggering for some people.
The first half of the show is a typical comedy show. And then the second half of the show deconstructs the first half. Using the examples of the jokes she makes in the first half, Gadsby critiques comedy, and it's so damn clever and so powerfully done. Her theses are that she doesn't want to do the self-deprecating comedy she's built her career on because she doesn't want to put herself down anymore; that comedy has been destructive for her because in order to turn her life into a series of punchlines she's had to rewrite her own story; that you come to believe the part of the story that you dwell in, and since she's dwelt for so long in this constructed reality, she's denying her authentic self; and that while the anger she feels is authentic and while male comedians have made anger a successful shtick, she doesn't want to dwell in anger any more than she wants to dwell in the constructed reality she'd built through her self-deprecating jokes.
Trigger warnings: one sentence mentions of childhood sexual assault and rape as an adult; longer but not very long description of being beaten up for being gay
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Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
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5. And would this even be a post by Lorraine if it did not include some form of whining about health woes? This is a rhetorical question requiring no answer.
Josh got a bit better and then plateaued in this place where he just feels low-level wretched all the time. I guess I expected the meds to start making him feel better more quickly. :(
I dropped a full Yeti cup on my toe, and it hurts like a mother. It's not broken, but my toenail is a beautiful (truly) shade of blue.
6. Finally, might I recommend yoga nidra to any of you who have trouble sleeping? My foot hurt enough yesterday that I didn't want to do any of the actual yoga as it sometimes requires curling toes under and etc, so I did a yoga nidra meditation. Which was an enormous mistake because I did it in the middle of the day and it just about konked me out for the rest of the day. It was deeply, deeply effective at relaxation, like almost scarily so, and if I ever have trouble sleeping again, I am totally going to just find a session on youtube and do it in my bed. Wow.
lyr, a box of books (including The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which I am very excited to read) from executrix, and a regular card from 020104isme. Quite the postal haul!2. This morning the hawk was screeching its head off non-stop. It finally landed right on top of the bird feeder and perched there; I let it sit for awhile so we could admire it and then had Fiona shoo it off. I do not want it to start thinking of the bird feeder as its drive-through. It's beautiful and so big; at first it tried to perch on one of the curved hooks and kept wobbling comically until it perched right on the top finial where all the hooks converge. I can't tell if it's a juvenile or adult or what. It needs to shut up, though. So damn loud. LOL
3. We just watched Nanette, the comedy special on Netflix by Hannah Gadsby, and I cannot recommend it enough. I think it works best if you go into it unspoiled, but it definitely contains material that can be triggering for some people.
The first half of the show is a typical comedy show. And then the second half of the show deconstructs the first half. Using the examples of the jokes she makes in the first half, Gadsby critiques comedy, and it's so damn clever and so powerfully done. Her theses are that she doesn't want to do the self-deprecating comedy she's built her career on because she doesn't want to put herself down anymore; that comedy has been destructive for her because in order to turn her life into a series of punchlines she's had to rewrite her own story; that you come to believe the part of the story that you dwell in, and since she's dwelt for so long in this constructed reality, she's denying her authentic self; and that while the anger she feels is authentic and while male comedians have made anger a successful shtick, she doesn't want to dwell in anger any more than she wants to dwell in the constructed reality she'd built through her self-deprecating jokes.
Trigger warnings: one sentence mentions of childhood sexual assault and rape as an adult; longer but not very long description of being beaten up for being gay
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Fugitive Telemetry by Martha WellsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I love Murderbot. I love Murderbot's humans. I love Murderbot acquiring additional humans.
:)
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5. And would this even be a post by Lorraine if it did not include some form of whining about health woes? This is a rhetorical question requiring no answer.
Josh got a bit better and then plateaued in this place where he just feels low-level wretched all the time. I guess I expected the meds to start making him feel better more quickly. :(
I dropped a full Yeti cup on my toe, and it hurts like a mother. It's not broken, but my toenail is a beautiful (truly) shade of blue.
6. Finally, might I recommend yoga nidra to any of you who have trouble sleeping? My foot hurt enough yesterday that I didn't want to do any of the actual yoga as it sometimes requires curling toes under and etc, so I did a yoga nidra meditation. Which was an enormous mistake because I did it in the middle of the day and it just about konked me out for the rest of the day. It was deeply, deeply effective at relaxation, like almost scarily so, and if I ever have trouble sleeping again, I am totally going to just find a session on youtube and do it in my bed. Wow.
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Date: 2021-06-16 04:56 pm (UTC)We have a large crow rookery behind our house - MG insists I sent them an invitation :D - and the large hawk that tried to take up residence was swiftly driven off by them.
I'm cringing in sympathy even thinking about dropping that Yeti cup on your toe.
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Date: 2021-06-17 11:48 am (UTC)I've only ever seen an isolated crow here and there, not a bunch together. I bet they are loud.
My poor toe. LOL I'm just glad I didn't break it.
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Date: 2021-06-16 05:04 pm (UTC)I haven't seen Nanette but I really enjoyed Gadsby's sequel. I think it's called Nathan or something like that? Anyway, really good stuff.
HAPPY BDAY TIME!
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Date: 2021-06-17 11:49 am (UTC)I think the thing I like the most about living here is how many animals I see on a daily basis.
Nanette is really good; it's heavy, but really good.
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Date: 2021-06-16 05:24 pm (UTC)Sorry for health woes. Marty's are ramping up fairly severely and I am not used to being in this mode, so it is a whole new world for me. (Except for eldercare; I know a lot about that from my late aunt and my late dad and a bit with my mom.)
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Date: 2021-06-17 11:51 am (UTC)I'm so sorry to hear that. It is really hard to be the partner of someone who's struggling with health problems. For example, Josh feels terrible so he's cranky and frustrated and irritable (which makes 100% sense but can be hard to deal with). Please know you can vent to me at any time.
Nanette is really good; it's heavy, but really good.
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Date: 2021-06-16 05:29 pm (UTC)I am very out of it, so I'd never heard of yoga nidra, but I'm going to read up on it and try it, because my regular bad sleep became even worse through the pandemic.
Also: for a recent flash exchange, I received an absolutely perfect Eleven & Will Byers ficlet that I think you'll like, too: here.
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Date: 2021-06-17 11:53 am (UTC)I hope yoga nidra helps you. I haven't tried any of the ones on youtube (my exercise vid is a DVD), but I bet some of them are just as good.
Ooh, rec. *clicks link*
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Date: 2021-06-17 01:37 am (UTC)Hee!
I've had Nanette on my Netflix list for so long. *prods self into actually watching it*
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Date: 2021-06-17 11:56 am (UTC)That fool hawk got up there one more time yesterday. *shakes head* IDK if it has a chick and has lost it's mind or what.
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Date: 2021-06-17 12:00 pm (UTC)Whoa. You got to see a hawk up close. How lucky! Although I agree with you shooing it away, you don't want the little birds to be what's for dinner.
You're not whining about your health woes, there's a big part of your life unfortunately and so you're going to talk about it. I'm sorry Josh isn't feeling good still, and that your toe got smashed. Hopefully, both will get better soonish.
Have any big plans for your birthday?
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Date: 2021-06-18 11:32 am (UTC)Thank you, sweetie. My toe is a lot better now. I just hope the toenail doesn't eventually fall off. LOL
We have no plans. Just chilling here at the house (which to be fair, I have become such a homebody that's totally fine with me LOL).
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Date: 2021-06-19 12:01 am (UTC)Glad you're doing something you like tomorrow, even if you are at home! Best wishes for the day!
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Date: 2021-06-19 11:17 am (UTC)*hugs*
The day has started off good.
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Date: 2021-06-19 04:05 pm (UTC)~HUGS~
Glad the day has started well for you love!
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Date: 2021-06-18 11:41 am (UTC)I shall look into yoga nidra.
HAWK DRIVE-THROUGH.
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Date: 2021-06-19 11:08 am (UTC)There are hundreds of meditations on youtube, so I bet you can find one that works for you.
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