Far out to sea there's a strange kind of silence
My birthday present from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nineweaving arrived this afternoon: Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane's Lost in the Cedar Wood (2021), a pandemic collaboration inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh. I am pleased to report that so far it is exactly as great as one would hope from that description. I had been wondering what both of them were doing lately.
In other news, I have been absolutely stomped by this booster shot. I am now running only a moderate fever and my skin mostly doesn't hurt at the lightest touch, but the alteration of teeth-rattling chills and drenching sweats for the first twenty-four hours was some real pseudo-malarial funtimes. I am reassuring myself that it indicates a healthy immune response. My immune system almost never does anything healthy, so I should support its broadening horizons. At some point in the future I assume I will stop randomly falling asleep while sitting down to read.
Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: "I got a bit... distracted... so here's a recent sketch of Augustus inspired by a typo in the online Gutenberg version of Suetonius Aug. 20."
nineweaving arrived this afternoon: Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane's Lost in the Cedar Wood (2021), a pandemic collaboration inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh. I am pleased to report that so far it is exactly as great as one would hope from that description. I had been wondering what both of them were doing lately.In other news, I have been absolutely stomped by this booster shot. I am now running only a moderate fever and my skin mostly doesn't hurt at the lightest touch, but the alteration of teeth-rattling chills and drenching sweats for the first twenty-four hours was some real pseudo-malarial funtimes. I am reassuring myself that it indicates a healthy immune response. My immune system almost never does anything healthy, so I should support its broadening horizons. At some point in the future I assume I will stop randomly falling asleep while sitting down to read.
Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: "I got a bit... distracted... so here's a recent sketch of Augustus inspired by a typo in the online Gutenberg version of Suetonius Aug. 20."
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This is like when the doctors advise the patient to retire to their summer home and to be sure their cook prepares them porridge cooked precisely to X specifications, which they should eat while listening to baroque chamber music played live on period instruments.
But yeah, sure! Destress!
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To be fair to the doctor, she is desperately stressed herself and understands that I cannot just move out to the villa at Baiae for the season. We had an actual planning conversation, not just a vague prescription. But her point that I am on a real physiological level out of the resources with which to heal from things that have happened to my body remains unpleasantly valid. Now I need a shipping fortune and a sanitorium.
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She's a good doctor, and they are burning out fast.
Ahh, that shipping fortune. I guess right now it's tied up at the Port of Los Angeles....