Okay, Internet. What’s the best way to D&D remotely?
I slept for 9 hours instead of 10 last night (what a luxury, I know, believe me that I give up a lot of leisure time to sleep this much and I don’t like it) and my body is punishing me I guess by giving me brain fog.
A body should not require this much sleep.
But mine does.
The Jiminy Cricket or Frog (of Frog and Toadl in my head: “If you do X, the whole week will go more smoothly.”
Me: “Nah, I’m gonna try and finish up Return of the Obra Dinn.”
Did not finish: A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara 📚
Beautifully written. After 400+ pgs of almost non-stop trauma, this book was actively making me unhappy so I set it aside. Definitely search around for content warnings before reading.
Picture of the view from my deck didn’t seem to actually end up attached to the post about working from the deck. Whoops!
Working on the deck in summer always feels like working in a treehouse.
Went to apply for passports for myself & M today and the passport person just wasn’t there, didn’t contact the people with appointments to reschedule or anything and I’m rather angry and frustrated because this is not a quick or easy process.
My legs started getting medically-restless by 4 pm today. I didn’t have caffeine after 2 or so, took a warm bath with epsom salt & essential oil, took 900mg magnesium orally & 400 topically None of it seems to have helped. All tense & tingly. Chronic illness is for the birds.
Is there space for robust research-practice partnerships in the time of COVID, or are people too tired for this kind of long-term collaboration?
💬📚 “It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy to try.” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life