BL trip a success

[kaberett]

In brief: book is the least I've been annoyed by any such book I have yet read, which is fairly impressive going, especially since the copy in the BL's collection is the first edition originally published in 2003 rather than the second edition updated in 2013; more notes possibly to follow (subject to reaching a decision about whether I want to hold out for getting my hands on a copy of the second edition before talking about it in public).

Entertainment: shortly after I finally settled myself down in my nice corner desk against a window with my back to the wall and a whole enclosed-in-glass booth between me and Any Other Readers... my watch buzzed to let me know that I'd just finished a Period Of High Stress. The high stress was, obviously, sitting quietly wedged into a corner on public transport while reading a relaxing book. I did know public transport was exhausting! I have been saying! I'm still kind of impressed at the watch Earnestly Informing Me, In Case I Didn't? Know? and mildly regretting that I'm planning to do the same-ish again tomorrow, and also also I am reassessing A Lot of my wheelchair use in light of this...

Related entertainment: how much my hypervigilance kicked up when I returned from lunch to discover that neatly leaving my notebook and reading-book in a stack on my desk had not had sufficient inhibitory effect, and a Noisy Person had decided to sit diagonally across from me, in my Space, being Noisy. The amount I relaxed when they (temporarily) fucked off is another one for the "yep I can see how not leaving the house for over a year and then staying Hyper Local has added up to me looking much more functional" files...

Comments

[ewt]

Public transport is exhausting!

I do find that if I have a regular journey I eventually adapt to it and find it less exhausting, at about the same rate I adapt to, say, cycle journeys. (In fact, for me, modelling my tiredness as if I had spent about twice as long cycling as I'll spend on public transport seems to be About Right, though also new cycle journeys are more tiring than known cycle journeys, so for one-off or irregular journeys, public transport is still a good bet for me.)

[kaberett]

I think for me the key difference is that I get tangible physical benefits from cycling (exercise endorphins yay!) which means that the same amount of physical tired feels much more worth it to me than the "exhaust myself by sitting in a chair" option...