I’m not taking an hour-long walk in 5 degree darkness, thank you very much. If you think I am, you cray-cray.
Otherwise, so far so good this new year, you guys. Except yesterday at work was colossally awful. And I felt sick all night. But I had a good night’s sleep, and I haven’t eaten too poorly. Sunday I raided my closet for shirts to get rid of: seven are flat out going, and about ten more are on borrowed time (they’ve been sectioned off in ‘let’s see if I wear it’ land). Also, I cleaned the trash out of my car.
I have begun working off the 1001 lists again, just for fun, and I’ve made exciting progress. I’ve now seen two films (A Trip to the Moon and The Great Train Robbery), read a book (Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen), and listened to two albums (Fiona Apple’s Tidal and Daft Punk’s Homework) I must hear before I die – they were pretty good! Tidal, especially, I thought was a fine album that you should listen to again if you haven’t recently. I had it on while I was making stuffed peppers one night.
I’m currently making my way through Birth of a Nation - I’m about half an hour in, and (for right now) it’s more watchable than I thought it would be. As silent films go. They really did have faces then!
I’m reading Aesop’s Fables, which is number one on the books list. There really are a lot of them, and I don’t know if it’s my translation, but some of the morals seem…unsupported by the source material. Although not untrue! The good part of this book is that I can flip it over and read The 1001 Nights on the other side.
And I’ve gone through what CDs we have to glean more of the 1001 albums: looks like I’ll be listening to some Pet Shop Boys (Behavior and/or Very) today.
And. I’ve only left myself a half hour, so this is what you get. I haven’t even edited. Lucky you.
I AM cray-cray! I’m really excited to work this into casual conversation.