On the floor of the big top right next to the overwhelming sense of impending doom
As of this afternoon with the pulmonologist, it looks like I have asthma, common or garden, either inherited or triggered by three months of lung infection with allergies involved somehow. It may resolve, it may be lifelong, I will have no idea until it has been treated for some time. Honestly, I had been so worried about yet another unidentifiable illness or further permanent damage that being handed a heavy-duty inhaler and instructions to report back in three weeks comes as a relief. Asthma is not thrilling, but it is at least well understood. Also the results of my pulmonary function test—while diagnostic—were just as hilarious as I expected, i.e., it says on paper that my lung capacity is 114%.
I returned home to discover that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie had sent me one of the four remaining novels by Theodore Sturgeon I have not yet read: the novelization of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). I have no idea whether it is any good and I look forward to finding out. It was meaningless to me at the time, but I will always regret not impulse-buying I, Libertine (1956) from the pulp racks of Upper Story Books that one time in college I saw it.
Courtesy ofmoon_custafer: the jiu-jitsu lesson from Stand-In (1937). In the interests of pedantry, Leslie Howard is not actually playing the himbo of the century but an enormous nerd with the people skills of a rock, but in this situation it comes to the same thing.
spatch captured this most elusive expression of Autolycus' in the wild: the blerp.
I returned home to discover that
selkie had sent me one of the four remaining novels by Theodore Sturgeon I have not yet read: the novelization of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). I have no idea whether it is any good and I look forward to finding out. It was meaningless to me at the time, but I will always regret not impulse-buying I, Libertine (1956) from the pulp racks of Upper Story Books that one time in college I saw it.Courtesy of
moon_custafer: the jiu-jitsu lesson from Stand-In (1937). In the interests of pedantry, Leslie Howard is not actually playing the himbo of the century but an enormous nerd with the people skills of a rock, but in this situation it comes to the same thing.spatch captured this most elusive expression of Autolycus' in the wild: the blerp.
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Thank you.
The jiu-jitsu scene is hilarious; hopefully Howard gets a bit less clueless before the end of the film.
He does, in fact, although he never gets less nerdy, which is one of the reasons I love the movie so much. I found it on the Internet Archive earlier this evening and will undoubtedly rewatch it as soon as I've, like, slept.
I don't think I've read *any* Sturgeon apart from E Pluribus Unicorn and not sure about even that. Keep meaning to try The Dreaming Jewels. How the hell did I forget he wrote "Amok Time"?
I saw the episode before I paid any attention to the names of TV writers, so it happens! I think you might like The Dreaming Jewels a lot.