Forty years of blind visions wasted

[sovay]

I don't have much to say right now that isn't about movies; my reviews are where I am putting whatever attention and interest I have to spare, because I enjoy them and they give me something to do with my brain, two qualities which otherwise feel like lost causes these days. I spent most of today balancing accounts and paying bills, which was awful because our finances are awful. I realized that I've been actively sick with one thing or another since before Thanksgiving, which explains but does not cure my feeling of never getting a chance to breathe. I had a story rejected after a six-month hold, which didn't help anything. The migraine or even its fringes are definitely over with, but walking to the bank and back was exhausting. I suspect I am in the anti-sweet spot of still dealing with the sinus infection while simultaneously dealing with the antibiotics; I know I'll have to feel better at some point, but why can't that be now? I enjoyed this article about Jennifer Mendelsohn's resistance genealogy: "Someone called it 'ancestor doxing' . . . Please—it's called journalism."

Comments

[asakiyume]

I have sent you something to distract you from the rejection.

[sovay]

I have sent you something to distract you from the rejection.

Thank you. I will see if I can do something with it. [edit] I have done something. Fingers crossed.

[umadoshi]

You are so horribly past due for a break on the health front. :( I hope you get one veryvery soon.

[sovay]

I hope you get one veryvery soon.

Thank you. I think it would be nice!

[gwynnega]

That genealogy article is great. (It compelled me to follow Jennifer Mendelsohn on Twitter.)

Waiting six months for a rejection is never fun.

I hope you feel better soon.

[sovay]

That genealogy article is great. (It compelled me to follow Jennifer Mendelsohn on Twitter.)

Excellent!

Waiting six months for a rejection is never fun.

It feels like the encapsulation of insult to injury. Especially since I missed out on a submission window by invitation in that time because I didn't want to withdraw the story from its original market and now, well.

I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you!

[gwynnega]

Ugh, what a drag that you missed out on a submission window by invitation! That is really aggravating.

[nineweaving]

This is so very much for you.



The sculptor is Ellen Jewett.

*octohugs*

Nine

[sovay]

This is so very much for you.

It's beautiful. Thank you.

*hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

The sculptor is Ellen Jewett.

Possibly a relative! (Sorry. Just on a genealogical post, and it is a rare enough surname that it's probably true somewhere...)

[sovay]

Possibly a relative!

Awesome! May I ask where the name is in your family?

[thisbluespirit]

It's my own! (We spell it Jewitt, but my ancestors weren't as picky.) And as I said, it's just about rare enough that I claim all bearers of it as relatives or connections somewhere along the line.)

[sovay]

(We spell it Jewitt, but my ancestors weren't as picky.) And as I said, it's just about rare enough that I claim all bearers of it as relatives or connections somewhere along the line.

That's very neat!

It's nice to have a trackable last name.

[thisbluespirit]

Well, whether or not that's true is another thing! But, yeah. What is cool about it (and why it's comparatively rare) is that it is most likely a matronymic, whereas most UK surnames (when they involve a name) are patronymics.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, well, I do hope that once the anti-biotics get to work, you can finally feel a bit better, because it's very wearing and horrible when it goes on. But in the meantime, as I've said before, your movie reviews are worthwhile and beautiful. They are most certainly things to be proud of. <3

And, ha, that is a great article. I'm only surprised, given the endless nosiness and access to records possessed by most genealogists that she's the only one!

(Although: "The historical record doesn't lie." Ha. hahahahaha. It depends which sources, but it does quite a lot, as the historical record was generally created by people, and we weren't magically infallible or unbiased in the past, either.)

[sovay]

Aw, well, I do hope that once the anti-biotics get to work, you can finally feel a bit better, because it's very wearing and horrible when it goes on.

Thank you. I'd just really like to feel better on some axis. It shouldn't be impossible.

But in the meantime, as I've said before, your movie reviews are worthwhile and beautiful. They are most certainly things to be proud of.

I appreciate hearing it and I am really glad.

(Although: "The historical record doesn't lie." Ha. hahahahaha. It depends which sources, but it does quite a lot, as the historical record was generally created by people, and we weren't magically infallible or unbiased in the past, either.)

I understand her meaning, but . . . yeah.

[ethelmay]

I thought of you when I read a restaurant review in the New Yorker that had this: "One night, a warm “ocean broth,” made tableside, was the meal’s first alchemical ritual. The server poured dill oil and powdered phytoplankton into a corked glass press filled with salt-and-vinegar water, emulsified the concoction, then poured the hot broth into a black ceramic cup. “I hope it makes you feel like you’re standing on an oceanside cliff at sunset,” he intoned. Apothecary-chic microalgae may be a dated culinary trend, but who cares? It’s mermaid tea, and its powers of salty transport are real." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/16/agern-grand-centrals-nordic-eatery

[sovay]

"It's mermaid tea, and its powers of salty transport are real."

That's wonderful. (I would drink it.) Thank you.