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ismoI had all kinds of fun over the weekend, but now it's Tuesday and I'm grumpy and irascible. Ungrateful me. Le sigh. I was feeling too grumpy to post, but thought I might as well go through my reading page anyway. This made me think I should make a good faith effort to be less grumpy, so I'm giving it a try. I just this minute had a good idea re: doing my laundry when I'm still fearful of picking up heavy things lest I disturb my eye, so it's already paid off. Here's the idea: drag the laundry bag to the scale, where I will weigh it. If it's under 25 pounds, then I can carry it downstairs! DUH. Of course, I already carried in all the groceries, because I keep forgetting. So I guess it's a moot point. Actually, my eyes are getting better. My left eye is still somewhat irritated, but we're definitely making progress, and the artificial tears help. I'm using Systane rather than plain saline.
On Sunday, we went to the library book sale for the first time in at least three years, maybe more like five. Before COVID, there was self-restraint due to having too many books already. But one of my friends kept talking about it . . . the serpent tempted me, and I did eat. It was a 10 dollars for a grocery bag type of sale, which is just an invitation to overdo it. We got 21 books into the bag, so it averaged out to about 50 cents each. But at 50 cents each, we wouldn't have been incentivized to keep piling in more of them. I dumped them in the family room . . . where there was already A Stack next to my place on the couch, and Another Stack atop the bookcase waiting to be read. Those were library books though--catch and release books as I call them. They will go away whether I read them or not.
Then we had breakfast at a middle eastern cafe. We had excellent coffee. I had a waffle (not very middle eastern, but very delicious, with stripes of fruit laid out meticulously) and the Sparrowhawk had Egg Sujok, which is scrambled eggs with Armenian sausage, also very delicious. We shared bites. Yesterday, I had a long phone call with Queenie. Then we rushed over to the garden store and got a birthday gift for Dr. Nurse and some seed starter pots and dirt. I wrote a little more about Dejah Thoris. Then I had a long Zoom with two of my favorite people.
Today: grocery shopping, another page of writing, another Zoom. And I made brunch for the Sparrowhawk and myself after shopping. More scrambled eggs with parsley, this time with mushrooms and cheese. I swear I'll do some spring cleaning some day, but this is not that day.
Creatures of Paradise: Pictures to Grow Up With, by Bryan Holme, illustrated with reproductions of artworks with animals in them.
Visitor, C.J. Cherryh (a novel in the Foreigner universe)
Sir Thursday, Garth Nix (Book Four in the Keys to the Kingdom series)
The Praxis, Walter Jon Williams
The Sundering, Walter Jon Williams (books 1 and 3 in the Dread Empire’s Fall trilogy)
Wizard for Hire, Jim Butcher (compendium of three Dresden Files novels)
Three Nora Roberts paperbacks: Sea Swept, Daring to Dream, and Finding the Dream
100 KM Around Frankfurt, by Rudolph Klein (tiny but charming guidebook with hand-drawn illustrations of the countryside)
An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters. David W. McFadden
Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village, David Yeadon
Ancient Turkey: A Traveller’s History, Seton Lloyd
Living in Ireland, Walter Pfeiffer (a small book with lovely photos—obviously by a German looking to get out of Dodge)
A Pilgrim in Spain, Christopher Howse
A Walk Through Wales, Anthony Bailey
The Roots of Modern English, L.M. Myers
The Timelines of History (3rd revision, to replace our very old one)
The History of Art, E.H. Gombrich
Ten Philosophical Mistakes, Mortimer J. Adler
As you can see, travel is something that calls out to me. I love to read about people being somewhere else--even though the thought of all the trips people would like me to take during the next four months fills me with apprehension and makes me feel oppositional. The last four are the Sparrowhawk's picks--ever intent on improving his mind, whereas my choices would seem to indicate more of a desire to be amused.
On Sunday, we went to the library book sale for the first time in at least three years, maybe more like five. Before COVID, there was self-restraint due to having too many books already. But one of my friends kept talking about it . . . the serpent tempted me, and I did eat. It was a 10 dollars for a grocery bag type of sale, which is just an invitation to overdo it. We got 21 books into the bag, so it averaged out to about 50 cents each. But at 50 cents each, we wouldn't have been incentivized to keep piling in more of them. I dumped them in the family room . . . where there was already A Stack next to my place on the couch, and Another Stack atop the bookcase waiting to be read. Those were library books though--catch and release books as I call them. They will go away whether I read them or not.
Then we had breakfast at a middle eastern cafe. We had excellent coffee. I had a waffle (not very middle eastern, but very delicious, with stripes of fruit laid out meticulously) and the Sparrowhawk had Egg Sujok, which is scrambled eggs with Armenian sausage, also very delicious. We shared bites. Yesterday, I had a long phone call with Queenie. Then we rushed over to the garden store and got a birthday gift for Dr. Nurse and some seed starter pots and dirt. I wrote a little more about Dejah Thoris. Then I had a long Zoom with two of my favorite people.
Today: grocery shopping, another page of writing, another Zoom. And I made brunch for the Sparrowhawk and myself after shopping. More scrambled eggs with parsley, this time with mushrooms and cheese. I swear I'll do some spring cleaning some day, but this is not that day.
Creatures of Paradise: Pictures to Grow Up With, by Bryan Holme, illustrated with reproductions of artworks with animals in them.
Visitor, C.J. Cherryh (a novel in the Foreigner universe)
Sir Thursday, Garth Nix (Book Four in the Keys to the Kingdom series)
The Praxis, Walter Jon Williams
The Sundering, Walter Jon Williams (books 1 and 3 in the Dread Empire’s Fall trilogy)
Wizard for Hire, Jim Butcher (compendium of three Dresden Files novels)
Three Nora Roberts paperbacks: Sea Swept, Daring to Dream, and Finding the Dream
100 KM Around Frankfurt, by Rudolph Klein (tiny but charming guidebook with hand-drawn illustrations of the countryside)
An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters. David W. McFadden
Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village, David Yeadon
Ancient Turkey: A Traveller’s History, Seton Lloyd
Living in Ireland, Walter Pfeiffer (a small book with lovely photos—obviously by a German looking to get out of Dodge)
A Pilgrim in Spain, Christopher Howse
A Walk Through Wales, Anthony Bailey
The Roots of Modern English, L.M. Myers
The Timelines of History (3rd revision, to replace our very old one)
The History of Art, E.H. Gombrich
Ten Philosophical Mistakes, Mortimer J. Adler
As you can see, travel is something that calls out to me. I love to read about people being somewhere else--even though the thought of all the trips people would like me to take during the next four months fills me with apprehension and makes me feel oppositional. The last four are the Sparrowhawk's picks--ever intent on improving his mind, whereas my choices would seem to indicate more of a desire to be amused.
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Date: 2022-03-24 01:45 pm (UTC)