I want to feel you in motion

[sovay]

Once again I aten't dead, but I am very tired and I miss my brain. I came into this month with a whole bunch of movies I wanted to write about and seem to be able to combobulate intellectually for none of them, even the ones where I had all sorts of feelings at the time. I am falling asleep in the afternoons and evenings. I am discussing my physical state with more doctors than should be necessary. On the other hand, I have written my first original fiction not only since the start of this year, but since 2020. I blame the recent heat wave, which made me want to think about ice. I was able to see rushthatspeaks enough to give him his anniversary present, a compendium of tiki culture history and recipes which has already furnished one cocktail too hilarious not to make. (I like many tiki drinks unironically since they tend to be rum-based, but I don't think it is possible to enjoy anything but ironically a drink that comes served in a cucumber.) I can't believe the High Holidays start at the end of this week.

P.S. We had to run some errands in Davis Square, which is how I had a lovely conversation about the music teachers at my former high school, ancient Near Eastern baking, and anarcho-communism in One Piece with the bread clerk at When Pigs Fly and took a picture of myself looking like one of spatch's characters from Fallout 76. Now to be prone under a cat.

Comments

[kindkit]

I'm sorry you're feeling so unwell. But glad that you wrote a thing, yay! The feeling of having written is so satisfying.

(Also, I unironically want to know more about the drink served in a cucumber.)

[landingtree]

I’m so glad things are better! though sorry the level of ‘better’ is fluctuating where it is.

[sovay]

I'm sorry you're feeling so unwell. But glad that you wrote a thing, yay! The feeling of having written is so satisfying.

Thank you! It does in fact make my brain feel a lot more like mine.

(Also, I unironically want to know more about the drink served in a cucumber.)

Per Jeff Berry's Beachbum Berry's Sippin' Safari (2007/2017), it was invented in 1957 by Joe Scialom of the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico and is called the Cou-Cou-Comber. rushthatspeaks has suggested that we make cucumber sandwiches out of the parts of the cucumber that we are not using as a cocktail glass and I am entertained by the entire concept.

[sovay]

I’m so glad things are better! though sorry the level of ‘better’ is fluctuating where it is.

Thank you! I will take improvement in increments. It beats the alternative.

[sartorias]

That's such a terrific pic!

[sovay]

That's such a terrific pic!

Thank you!

[gwynnega]

I am very glad you wrote fiction!

The cucumber drink sounds very amusing.

[sovay]

I am very glad you wrote fiction!

Thank you! It had begun to feel like a very bad sign that I wasn't anymore.

The cucumber drink sounds very amusing.

I appreciate the combination of (a) completely reasonable cocktail ingredients (b) served in a cucumber. I don't know why I find it funnier than the class of tiki drinks that are served in a coconut or a grapefruit or what have you, but I do.

[asakiyume]

That's a simply fabulous photo; you really look like a character from a movie I'd like to see. And that's also fabulous about the fiction! I hope it becomes available for us to read at some point. I hope your time as a cat cushion is mutually happy making for both you and the cat.

[sovay]

That's a simply fabulous photo; you really look like a character from a movie I'd like to see.

Thank you!

And that's also fabulous about the fiction! I hope it becomes available for us to read at some point.

I hope so, too. It is at a market and I do not know its chances, but I have my fingers crossed. I would like it to have a home.

I hope your time as a cat cushion is mutually happy making for both you and the cat.

Eventually I had to get up and eat dinner, which was a tragedy for the cat.

[rosefox]

On the other hand, I have written my first original fiction not only since the start of this year, but since 2020.

A well-buried lede. I'm so glad for you.

[sovay]

A well-buried lede. I'm so glad for you.

Thank you.

[aurumcalendula]

*hugs* I'm delighted to hear that you wrote fiction!

The cucumber drink sounds fascinating!

[ethelmay]

I am sure there must already be a drink called the Beachcomber, but perhaps BeachcUmber?

[ethelmay]

People who write stories about bog bodies have well-buried leads.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, well, I am sorry about still being ill, and I hope at least one of the too-many-doctors can do something helpful about that. But writing! That is wonderful. I hope brain also happens and then even more other things and also writing can happen too. <3

[sovay]

I am sure there must already be a drink called the Beachcomber, but perhaps BeachcUmber?

The Beachcomber cocktail looks like it would be a disaster with cucumber, or at least I think maraschino and cucumber would be a disaster.

[sovay]

I'm delighted to hear that you wrote fiction!

Thank you!

The cucumber drink sounds fascinating!

I would drink it even without the cucumber (I don't love vodka as a cocktail base, but I do enjoy Pernod), but I am very interested to see what the cucumber does for the experience!

[sovay]

Oh, well, I am sorry about still being ill, and I hope at least one of the too-many-doctors can do something helpful about that. But writing! That is wonderful. I hope brain also happens and then even more other things and also writing can happen too.

Thank you! I would like all of that.

*hugs*

[ethelmay]

I do agree.

[sami]

Good luck with the doctor circuit. Hope it's nothing major and you feel better soon.

[sovay]

Good luck with the doctor circuit. Hope it's nothing major and you feel better soon.

Thank you. It's been a doctor-circuit summer.