Status:
Very much a resting day. Slept a lot, then went back to bed later. Feeling OK but definitely like something relatively minor could tip me over.
Fi excitedly told me she’d received an extras call for a “kissing couple” who are already in a relationship, which meant I could accompany her on this new adventure. While sitting around for nine hours with occasional bursts of “action!” sounds potentially doable with my condition, I think I need her to have a go first and report back before I even contemplate applying. But you never know! (Also, surely they want pretty young things snogging in the background, not us crones.)
Admin:
Have re-jigged the links categories - Overnight Listening is now just Listening and moved down next to Watching, because I’m sleeping much better at the moment and would like the option to listen to audio in the daytime. Plus, as you’ve maybe noticed, it’s mostly Night Tracks at the moment.
Reading:
- The Histomap - I feel sure I’ve seen this before, maybe in print or maybe on the early internet? Either way, the origin story is new to me and quite interesting.
- Thomas Aquinas on Sex - Sartre put him right.
- Why Lab Coats are White - Or, why surgeons moved from heavy frock coats to something less gross. “The surgeon operated in a slaughter-house-suggesting frock coat of black cloth. It was stiff with the blood and the filth of years. The more sodden it was, the more forcibly did it bear evidence to the surgeon’s prowess.”
Watching:
- Syringe feeding a baby beaver (2:58)
- Laura Kampf (32:11)
Listening:
- How reading made us: 1. How reading made our brains - A literary reviewer realises he can’t read anymore and wonders what’s going on with his brain. I’ve often thought about the relationship between various forms of literacy and how we think and process the world, so this looks to be very much up my street. (This whole Understand strand looks worth exploring too.)
Clicking:
- 100 Jumps - the new hotness in incredibly addictive single button games. I think it’s hard because it leverages an optical illusion, but that knowledge doesn’t help. So far I’ve reached 40 jumps.
Telly:
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
- Last One Laughing Ireland - Aisling Bea and a bunch of people we don’t know (yet).