Still alive

And still seriously, seriously out of the habit of this whole journaling thing. So, a few brief update-type notes:

Last week was full of bureaucracy. Okay, most of the time I wasn't doing anything involving bureaucrap at all; but those hours when I was sitting in a large waiting area waiting to find out what other paperwork I needed to get filled out were annoying enough that the experience did rather color the week. However, assuming there isn't something wrong with the paperwork I turned in on Friday, that should be something I won't have to deal with for another year or so. I hope.

Farmers markets are still the high point of my weeks, and now we have entered the time of year when there's a good chance I will be able to make it to more than one per week! Yes, this week I already have acquired sweet cherries, black raspberries, a variety of cherry tomatoes, an eggplant, and a cucumber. If I can get to the bank tomorrow for some cash, I hope to be able to get more good stuff before the week is over.

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Last book finished: Gail A. Hornstein, Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness.

In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get their stories out, at least in disguised form. Today, in a vibrant underground network of “psychiatric survivor groups” all over the world, patients work together to unravel the mysteries of madness and help one another recover. Optimistic, courageous, and surprising, Agnes’s Jacket takes us from a code-cracking bunker during World War II to the church basements and treatment centers where a whole new way of understanding the mind has begun to take form.

If that advertisement sounds interesting to you, then I do recommend this book.

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Recent movies watched: The Truman Show and Pleasantville from 1998. While this combination made an excellent double feature, I was left with a few questions:

1. Who put what in Hollywood's water that year?

2. How many of the actors in Pleasantville have worked with Joss Whedon at some point in their careers? Two faces jumped out of me, but I can't help wondering if there were others I missed.

3. No, seriously, was there something in the water? Not that I'm complaining, mind you: Pleasantville was entertaining enough, and The Truman Show is going on my Must Rewatch list. Just curious.

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I tried, but I can't think of anything else to say at the moment, possibly because it's now bedtime.

Still alive

And still seriously, seriously out of the habit of this whole journaling thing. So, a few brief update-type notes:

Last week was full of bureaucracy. Okay, most of the time I wasn't doing anything involving bureaucrap at all; but those hours when I was sitting in a large waiting area waiting to find out what other paperwork I needed to get filled out were annoying enough that the experience did rather color the week. However, assuming there isn't something wrong with the paperwork I turned in on Friday, that should be something I won't have to deal with for another year or so. I hope.

Farmers markets are still the high point of my weeks, and now we have entered the time of year when there's a good chance I will be able to make it to more than one per week! Yes, this week I already have acquired sweet cherries, black raspberries, a variety of cherry tomatoes, an eggplant, and a cucumber. If I can get to the bank tomorrow for some cash, I hope to be able to get more good stuff before the week is over.

~~~~~

Last book finished: Gail A. Hornstein, Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness.

In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get their stories out, at least in disguised form. Today, in a vibrant underground network of “psychiatric survivor groups” all over the world, patients work together to unravel the mysteries of madness and help one another recover. Optimistic, courageous, and surprising, Agnes’s Jacket takes us from a code-cracking bunker during World War II to the church basements and treatment centers where a whole new way of understanding the mind has begun to take form.

If that advertisement sounds interesting to you, then I do recommend this book.

~~~~~

Recent movies watched: The Truman Show and Pleasantville from 1998. While this combination made an excellent double feature, I was left with a few questions:

1. Who put what in Hollywood's water that year?

2. How many of the actors in Pleasantville have worked with Joss Whedon at some point in their careers? Two faces jumped out of me, but I can't help wondering if there were others I missed.

3. No, seriously, was there something in the water? Not that I'm complaining, mind you: Pleasantville was entertaining enough, and The Truman Show is going on my Must Rewatch list. Just curious.

~~~~~

I tried, but I can't think of anything else to say at the moment, possibly because it's now bedtime.