That werewolf comes driving by in a Chevy

[sovay]

So the deal with this week is that since Monday I've been dealing with unusually severe amounts of pain, with the predictable result that my stamina is in bad shape and so is my sleep schedule. Earlier this week I dreamed of translating poetry in a burning city in winter; I got out of bed at four in the morning to write the poem down. Then I fell back asleep and dreamed that Quentin Tarantino was talking to me about film as we walked around Boston with his nonexistent sister, who was shooting location footage for a movie of her own and barely said two words to me. Last night's dreams were all body horror full of rot and infestation and classes I didn't sign up for. I've been sleeping between seven and ten hours a night, but I feel as though I'm spacing through most of my days. I would like to be writing about several things I find interesting. That is not happening right now.

1. Courtesy of strange_selkie: cuneiform gingerbread tablets. I approve profoundly.

2. The Strange Horizons Readers' Poll for 2015 is now open! Please vote for your favorite stories, poems, articles, columnists, reviewers, and artworks from 2015. There are some serious contenders this year.

3. I was very struck by this poem: Heid E. Erdrich, "True Myth."

I will post my schedule for Arisia soon.

Comments

[davidgillon]

Sympathy on the pain, and wish my dreamscape was half so productive! This week's dreaming has mostly involved about half a dozen instances of dozing off and starting awake convinced I'm a) still travelling and b) about to miss a connection/get left on the train/whatever. Which is odd as the actual journey was trouble free (for once!)

[sovay]

Which is odd as the actual journey was trouble free (for once!)

You got all your bad travel luck out of the way by dreaming! That sounds very productive to me!

[davidgillon]

Avoiding problems by dreaming them afterwards, there's a story in there somewhere....

[gwynnega]

That poem is terrific.

[sovay]

That poem is terrific.

I am paying attention to the poet now.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

May your pain abate and may your sleep remain at high levels and become properly restorative.

[sovay]

May your pain abate and may your sleep remain at high levels and become properly restorative.

Thank you.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

...We might have to bake cuneiform gingerbread next year.

[sovay]

...We might have to bake cuneiform gingerbread next year.

Look at me objecting.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Very nice cuneiform cookies!

And that poem "True Myth" is great--loved this line "With a bestiary for a family album she's proud."

It isn't fair that during periods when you're managing to sleep, you have the replacement curse of pain and sickness--hope those both recede soon but you get to keep the sleep.

[sovay]

It isn't fair that during periods when you're managing to sleep, you have the replacement curse of pain and sickness--hope those both recede soon but you get to keep the sleep.

Thank you. I'm really not sure how this week is going to work.