[medical] on the upside, I have not spent the evening drinking bowel prep solution

[kaberett]

So uh yeah anaesthetics said "... no. come back in six weeks."

So that's not happening tomorrow.

There are, as I say, upsides -- "longer to forget what The Concoction tastes like" chief among them, but also feat. e.g.:

• greater ability to check on the progress of the saffron
• VEGETABLES (I am celebrating by consuming vast quantities of nuts, pears WITH THEIR SKINS, parsley, et cetera)
• additional opportunity to e.g. tidy the damn sofa, make a pile of cake, post people Objects various, have some quiet time at home, have more of the stationery I have been Aggressively Self Soothing With show up for me to Organise, ...

Also: today's realisation? is that messing around with flex-nib writing (see The Zanerian Manual and The universal penman, both via Penna Volans) requires me to hold the pen sufficiently differently from my default, and to then pay enough attention to What I Am Doing Right Now, that... it usefully functions as a moving meditation! So I've got that stockpiled as a partial substitute for What I Get Out Of Pilates post-surgery...

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Hooray for the upsides!

[forests_of_fire]

Damn. :( But at least that means you can hold off on the prep.

[ludy]

Glad there are upsides and that anaesthetics took the sensible decision to protect your health - but sorry about the disruption.

I find brush lettering pretty meditative but for me pointed pen is currently a little bit too challenging for me to get into a flow state with it (I’m mostly using dip pens rather than fountain pens and am dyspraxic)