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kaberettReading. A lot of migraine research. Mostly just skimming abstracts (I was blocked from accessing Google Scholar for most of a day!) but I have actually gone into details on a few of them and I am so dubious about Zeeberg et al. (2006) In Particular, and I think it's not just because I dislike their conclusions...
Elsewise! I have finished, having owned it for over a decade, the book Mindfulness: finding peace in a frantic world, Mark Williams & Danny Penman. I am also probably about to repeat week 4, having also repeated week 3, sigh, because structure is... something. I think this was where I stalled out last time through, as well; apparently something in me rebels emphatically at being told I'll be asked to do 20-30 minutes of meditation per day, and then assigned 38 minutes of same, even if it is split up into multiple blocks. Did actually get some useful pointers to research on "overgeneral memory", though.
The Silm, some more! I have drawn up an annotated family tree of the house of Finwë. I am probably going to redraw it.
In progress: The London Nobody Knows, Geoffrey Fletcher. One of this week's mindfulness course exercises was "pick a time to go to the cinema with someone, get to the cinema at the appointed time, then choose which film to watch, and try to Mindfully Enjoy This Unexpected Experience". To which the answer was: Heck Nope, for reasons including "that's not exactly cheap" and "the chances of me getting cross and upset are very high" and also, crucially, "there! is still! a pandemic on! while I'm on drugs that increase my susceptibility to respiratory infections!" INSTEAD I was poking around Libby during some insomnia the other night (possibly shortly after I'd been blocked from Google Scholar, actually), and decided that "pick an available book from one of the curated collections" was probably an acceptable variation on the theme. So far I am wincing a bit but mostly enjoying myself.
Writing. 3k words of complaint letter.
Playing. A little bit of Degrees of Separation with A, around migraines -- it's a very pretty two-player puzzle platformer.
I have also made some Satisfying Progress on some scavenger hunts in the silly clicky dragons game.
Cooking. Paella! Paella continues great. Shakshuka.
Eating. On our way back from an errand the other week I spotted that a local pub was new-ish-ly advertising Thai food for delivery. I poked at the menu online and was surprised by how plausible it looked. And then, this week, m i g r a i n e (s), during which Thai is generally Extremely Food, so. Two days of that. Definitely Good Enough.
Growing. Lots of tomatoes continue tomatoing! Chaenomeles japonica in enthusiastic bloom! Blueberry mostly gone over to Making Berries! Fig leaves fig leafing! Strawberries flowering!
At the plot I have grown a lot of grass and bindweed since I last made it there, but also the broad beans are starting to flower and the strawberries are definitely flowering and the soup peas are coming up and the allium are doing well and the cherry tree is done with flowers and in full leaf already.
Observing. BAT. Also the back garden fox.
Elsewise! I have finished, having owned it for over a decade, the book Mindfulness: finding peace in a frantic world, Mark Williams & Danny Penman. I am also probably about to repeat week 4, having also repeated week 3, sigh, because structure is... something. I think this was where I stalled out last time through, as well; apparently something in me rebels emphatically at being told I'll be asked to do 20-30 minutes of meditation per day, and then assigned 38 minutes of same, even if it is split up into multiple blocks. Did actually get some useful pointers to research on "overgeneral memory", though.
The Silm, some more! I have drawn up an annotated family tree of the house of Finwë. I am probably going to redraw it.
In progress: The London Nobody Knows, Geoffrey Fletcher. One of this week's mindfulness course exercises was "pick a time to go to the cinema with someone, get to the cinema at the appointed time, then choose which film to watch, and try to Mindfully Enjoy This Unexpected Experience". To which the answer was: Heck Nope, for reasons including "that's not exactly cheap" and "the chances of me getting cross and upset are very high" and also, crucially, "there! is still! a pandemic on! while I'm on drugs that increase my susceptibility to respiratory infections!" INSTEAD I was poking around Libby during some insomnia the other night (possibly shortly after I'd been blocked from Google Scholar, actually), and decided that "pick an available book from one of the curated collections" was probably an acceptable variation on the theme. So far I am wincing a bit but mostly enjoying myself.
Writing. 3k words of complaint letter.
Playing. A little bit of Degrees of Separation with A, around migraines -- it's a very pretty two-player puzzle platformer.
I have also made some Satisfying Progress on some scavenger hunts in the silly clicky dragons game.
Cooking. Paella! Paella continues great. Shakshuka.
Eating. On our way back from an errand the other week I spotted that a local pub was new-ish-ly advertising Thai food for delivery. I poked at the menu online and was surprised by how plausible it looked. And then, this week, m i g r a i n e (s), during which Thai is generally Extremely Food, so. Two days of that. Definitely Good Enough.
Growing. Lots of tomatoes continue tomatoing! Chaenomeles japonica in enthusiastic bloom! Blueberry mostly gone over to Making Berries! Fig leaves fig leafing! Strawberries flowering!
At the plot I have grown a lot of grass and bindweed since I last made it there, but also the broad beans are starting to flower and the strawberries are definitely flowering and the soup peas are coming up and the allium are doing well and the cherry tree is done with flowers and in full leaf already.
Observing. BAT. Also the back garden fox.
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Date: 2022-05-08 11:10 pm (UTC)Are you finding it doable to meditate for that much time? I cannot imagine having the patience to try and meditate for a full 40 minutes a day when there is so much else to be doing! Though that is in part due to lack of direction when it comes to meditating... Hmm.
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Date: 2022-05-10 09:31 pm (UTC)I'm repeating weeks when I don't manage to follow instructions on 6 days out of 7. I repeated week 3 and I am now repeating week 4. It's 2*3 minute chunks + 2*16 minute chunks, rather than All In One Go, which I definitely couldn't do; I am actually finding it useful, though, so.
The book I am working from comes with guided meditations!
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Date: 2022-05-11 01:03 pm (UTC)Hmmm. Thank you!
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Date: 2022-05-09 03:05 am (UTC)BAT! ^_^
FOX! ^_^
I have a large frog living in my back pond...
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Date: 2022-05-10 11:02 pm (UTC)(apparently they are lima beans! which I actually don't think I've ever tasted, but am familiar with from the abundance of children's literature characterizing them as disgusting)
amusingly to me, my realization about fava/broad beans was precipitated by a random quiz show question and not by the episode of Taskmaster where Noel Fielding brings in one autographed by David Suchet, which I have seen many times and somehow never questioned. I think I just assume that your agricultural ecosystem is so different from ours that anything I don't recognize the name of just doesn't exist here XD I do know about "aubergine" and "courgette," although I thought courgettes were directly equivalent to zucchini until a few months ago when I first heard the term "yellow courgette." (I've been watching a lot of old Pointless eps on YouTube.)
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Date: 2022-05-11 05:04 pm (UTC)Huh. I would not have predicted that at all, and it just mostly-scuppered my working theory as I read that Wikipedia article.
Mostly, because I haven't checked where the fuck they found a large enough sample of people with ED or BPD who did not have PTSD or a history of trauma.
(My working theory: the depression/trauma and/or medication causes the overgeneral memory, which in this theory would be a retrieval problem comparable both to anomic aphasia and some other executive function difficulties. But that theory won't work if it's common in depression and/or PTSD but not anxiety.)
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Date: 2022-12-30 09:24 am (UTC)