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.

[umadoshi]

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

[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.

[nineweaving]

This is so very much for you.



The sculptor is Ellen Jewett.

*octohugs*

Nine

[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.)

[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