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[kaberett]

Celebrating. Solstice!

Reading. Digger, Ursula Vernon: continue to read a chapter at a time with A as a shared activity. The SHADOWCHILD has EATEN a SOCK. Also I went back through to remind myself what all the oracular slug communicated and also the legend of He-Is and She-Is. Also also: GHOST WOMBAT.

Migraine, Katherine Foxhall. Maybe I will and maybe I won't get around to writing this up properly, but in brief: it managed, in places, to frustratingly epitomise stereotypes of Bad Humanities Writing; it was enormously comforting to read others' descriptions of their migraine across centuries; it prompted me to actually start thinking usefully about the fuzziness of the line between comorbidities and syndromes (sensu stricto*); definitely interested to have the history of aura becoming a primary symptom laid out; deeply deeply drawn by the Migraine Art Collection, as discussed earlier this week.

* amused and appalled the other day to discover -- prompted by A not being familiar with this one, where normally he is very fond of Misc Latin To Throw In As You Go Along -- that apparently its use is rather more restricted than I'd realised: "It is used in a number of fields including biology, geology, linguistics, semiotics, and law." (emphasis mine!)

The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz. Beautifully written, very easy to read, and I now have an actual extant understanding of the neurosequential model. (And am kicking myself for not having read all of the resources that were free during COVID-19, the URL for which now 404s.) (Possibly I should try the wayback machine! hmm.)

The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard. Pulled out of the stack of Hard Copies From Charity Shops Etc That I Want To Read And Probably Pass On. So far, a whole page and a half in after quite a bit of back-to-back non-fiction and immediately post a hospital admission (I'm fine!), I am feeling plaintive about starting things in media res. Possibly I will feel better about it tomorrow after actually getting some decent sleep.

Watching. Unexpected delight of Urgent Care TV: discovering that there exists a ZSL Christmas Special. I am going to try to hunt down a copy I can watch under slightly better circumstances.

Eating. Some Unusual Apple Varieties, which I will try to write up notes on at a time that is not bedtime.

Comments

[redbird]

Please do write up the unusual apple varieties.

[vass]

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[hairyears]

I am inordinately fond of Aliette de Bodard's postapocalyptic Paris setting, and inhale every novel she writes there!

[fyreharper]

Äpfel yespls!