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Oct. 23rd, 2022 11:25 pmReading. Moxyland, Lauren Beukes, picked up on Libby last night in a fit of insomnia; I read and liked Zoo City lo these many years ago; so far it's eminently readable.
Migraine: A History, Katherine Foxhall (link to free ebook). Also highly readable so far; there's clearly some terminology-around-chronic-illness Discourse I have somehow remained unaware of, but so far -- a very little way into this book -- I am also finding it very readable and I am going !!! quite a bit. I had not, for example, put together that "migraine" really is directly from the nearly-two-thousand-year-old term "hemicrania", via "emigranea"...
Writing. I have got most of the way through typing up my Theory Of Skulls In Nona. To get posted sometime this week coming.
Playing. Heaven's Vault, to the surprise of no-one -- we continue on our third trip around the loop :)
Cooking. More apple dumplings. More injera, with very dubious success -- I don't seem to be getting the yeast culture active enough for it to work without baking soda getting added, and I have also utterly failed to get a teff-only batter to play nice at all this time around, so I somewhat grumpily gave up and added wheat flour. Oh! And some bkeila (confit spinach with beans + flavours), because we had spinach that needed using, and it does indeed go well with the rest of the misc Ethiopian.
Eating. This week a Ruby Violet order arrived! So I have been consuming ice cream in flavours of plum (surprisingly delicate but very nice if you don't swamp it with other things), apricot rice pudding (LOTS of citrus peel in it but I think I'm pro this), honey & honeycomb, salted caramel & almond brittle, malted milk, and peach & rosewater sorbet. Hurrah for treats.
Growing. A took me to the allotment and strimmed it. Finished taking down the tomatoes and their infrastructure; reorganised volunteer soup pea infrastructure a little; some misc weeding.
Observing. The bat! I thought it had probably gone to sleep for the winter, but Adam pointed it out to me on two evenings and I spotted it on a third, so not quite yet! A flock of parakeets seems to have very definitely moved in to the trees behind our building; the birds are once again availing themselves enthusiastically of the feeders.
And then this evening we had a fantastic thunderstorm, complete with grey clouds illuminated an astounding fiery orange during sunset, which I think was unlike anything else I recall ever having otherwise seen.
Migraine: A History, Katherine Foxhall (link to free ebook). Also highly readable so far; there's clearly some terminology-around-chronic-illness Discourse I have somehow remained unaware of, but so far -- a very little way into this book -- I am also finding it very readable and I am going !!! quite a bit. I had not, for example, put together that "migraine" really is directly from the nearly-two-thousand-year-old term "hemicrania", via "emigranea"...
Writing. I have got most of the way through typing up my Theory Of Skulls In Nona. To get posted sometime this week coming.
Playing. Heaven's Vault, to the surprise of no-one -- we continue on our third trip around the loop :)
Cooking. More apple dumplings. More injera, with very dubious success -- I don't seem to be getting the yeast culture active enough for it to work without baking soda getting added, and I have also utterly failed to get a teff-only batter to play nice at all this time around, so I somewhat grumpily gave up and added wheat flour. Oh! And some bkeila (confit spinach with beans + flavours), because we had spinach that needed using, and it does indeed go well with the rest of the misc Ethiopian.
Eating. This week a Ruby Violet order arrived! So I have been consuming ice cream in flavours of plum (surprisingly delicate but very nice if you don't swamp it with other things), apricot rice pudding (LOTS of citrus peel in it but I think I'm pro this), honey & honeycomb, salted caramel & almond brittle, malted milk, and peach & rosewater sorbet. Hurrah for treats.
Growing. A took me to the allotment and strimmed it. Finished taking down the tomatoes and their infrastructure; reorganised volunteer soup pea infrastructure a little; some misc weeding.
Observing. The bat! I thought it had probably gone to sleep for the winter, but Adam pointed it out to me on two evenings and I spotted it on a third, so not quite yet! A flock of parakeets seems to have very definitely moved in to the trees behind our building; the birds are once again availing themselves enthusiastically of the feeders.
And then this evening we had a fantastic thunderstorm, complete with grey clouds illuminated an astounding fiery orange during sunset, which I think was unlike anything else I recall ever having otherwise seen.