I’m still not up to taking many photos so this is one from 31 October 2006, around the time I started taking my photography a bit more seriously.
Status:
Getting better? Maybe? Definitely having moments of clarity in-between the hacking coughs and sweats, however brief they may be. And while the coughing is nasty it is productive, as they say, and having now seen what’s in my lungs I’m glad it’s moving on out.
Of course this is all playing out on top of my chronic fatigue and is my first major secondary illness since I got that diagnosis 18 months ago (being unable to socialise has some advantages I guess), so all bets are off as to how long it’s going to drag on. I give it maybe til the middle of next week at the earliest?
Still, I’m getting plenty of telly in. We were due some new series to watch together and I’m dead pleased with both of this week’s choices. Fi chose Riot Women, thinking it was a light-hearted romp a-la Lady Parts. It’s not, but it’s so much better that I’d dared hope. Joanna Scanlan in particular is fantastic. And I’d been waiting with anticipation for The Lowdown, Sterlin Harjo’s big new series after Reservation Dogs, and it does not disappoint. We’d been watching a fair amount of prestige-esque stuff that hadn’t really delivered recently and to have two shows on the go that are written and performed so bloody well is a delight.
Reading:
- This physicist says we don’t take COVID seriously enough - “We may be living through a slow-moving immune decline crisis.”
- ‘The nuns were convinced they were possessed by demons’: goth and metal stars select the scariest music ever made
- Second Order Slop : Yr golygfa o Hescwm Uchaf, rhif 29
Watching:
- When You’re Late for Your Own Medal Ceremony
- How Marlon Brando Changed Acting
- Mark Kermode reviews Bugonia - looks good!