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Interlude between bouts of normalcy
Apr. 21st, 2004 01:52 pmIt feels strange to not be working out, but plain walking still hurts, so resting is probably the best thing. I stretched last night and I'll do it again tonight, and hope my body can do something useful with the break. (Everyone says it's good to take breaks, and see, I do. Just not planned breaks. The trick is to injure oneself just often enough.)
Ella Minnow Pea came in the mail last night, and it's kicking my vocabulary's ass. I'm on page 17. Words I've looked up, or tried to look up, so far: bandiford, lucubrating, sarilla (as in "sarilla geese"), anserherd (just has to be a goose-herd but it's not in the dictionaries), littoral, amphora, aposiopesis. And keep in mind, I've been recognizing words like cenotaph, caesura and piscivorous all along, and so far only one letter of the alphabet has fallen out of use, so I can be pretty sure the words will get wilder. Wow. I definitely need to set aside the GRRM for a while and finish this instead.
Almost forgot: I had a dream last night about giving birth to a child. Not a very realistic dream. I did dream it hurt, and then the child finally came out (hips-first, after a doctor reached over and sort of pulled it to one side so it could slip free). I felt a huge rush of relief and joy as it came out of me. But after that I didn't seem to care much about, or have to do anything for, the child. Instead I was in the restaurant at the top of the Prudential Center.
Ella Minnow Pea came in the mail last night, and it's kicking my vocabulary's ass. I'm on page 17. Words I've looked up, or tried to look up, so far: bandiford, lucubrating, sarilla (as in "sarilla geese"), anserherd (just has to be a goose-herd but it's not in the dictionaries), littoral, amphora, aposiopesis. And keep in mind, I've been recognizing words like cenotaph, caesura and piscivorous all along, and so far only one letter of the alphabet has fallen out of use, so I can be pretty sure the words will get wilder. Wow. I definitely need to set aside the GRRM for a while and finish this instead.
Almost forgot: I had a dream last night about giving birth to a child. Not a very realistic dream. I did dream it hurt, and then the child finally came out (hips-first, after a doctor reached over and sort of pulled it to one side so it could slip free). I felt a huge rush of relief and joy as it came out of me. But after that I didn't seem to care much about, or have to do anything for, the child. Instead I was in the restaurant at the top of the Prudential Center.
