Hot day and feelin' skeevy

Bla.  Woke up feeling awful.  Under the weather.  Mysteriously icky.  Still feel meh but managed to go downtown and do errands that needed attention.

Then I watched "The Favourite."  It did not improve my general health nor did it make me feel like people have ever been anything other than just ghastly.  But what great acting!  They all must have had the best time playing whack jobs and self-serving, power-mad beyotches.  No one was nice or pleasant or even possible to identify with.

Dancing in those days was weird.  Lady Marlborough stood in for the queen for a dance and as part of this dance -- dances were very complicated in those days -- her partner picks her up behind his back and she is straight and still and he spins her around like she is lumber among other weird moves.

Not the thing to watch to feel better and about 3/4 of the way through, I got up and took my vitamins and then used the restroom and then installed toilet roll and then I rolled up my shopping bags and moved my library books around.  Then, fine, I went and finished the movie.

Next time?  I watch "Deadpool," which I've seen many times but at least it's a guy you can root for.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Who's that dame?

It has been many, many weeks since my last post and apparently I've not been missed. That is okay! Things have happened since my last attempt. Teranofuji won the May Basho -- if he wins in July, his Yokozuna status is assured -- and as of tomorrow I will be working 40 hours a week. I've not worked 40 hours a week in a year and a quarter and I am both happy and feeling what best can be described as lazy. I will miss YouTube and reading books. After thinking about it for many years, I decided to adopt a cat from PAWS Chicago. PAWS is a terrific place and since they opened their doors the number of cats that have been euthanized in Chicago has gone from 46,000 to 1,900. Much of this is due to trap, neuter, release for those who cannot be socialized and adopted; they are returned to their feral colonies to live out their lives with their felines pals. My cat, now named BB, was a stray. She always uses the box and covers her business; she sleeps on the bed with me but in her own s...
Read more

Have you seen the gallinule?

Image
American purple gallinule, courtesy of VIREO Yesterday morning I set off with the birders to look at birds at the Magic Hedge near Montrose Harbor in Chicago.  As we were arriving, I found out a gallinule had been spotted very recently.   Two men were walking away from the harbor as we were leaving our car.  "Did you see the gallinule?" my sister asked. These were two very sweet and funny guys.  "No," said one, "but I saw a really big fish," and held his hands about 20 inches apart.  "I don't look at fish," said the second, "but I saw a grebe.  The gallinule is supposed to be down by Slip A." Fall at the Magic Hedge near Montrose Harbor, Chicago There was a difference for me this week.  I had my own [not great but they work and hey, they were free] binoculars.  I forgot my plastic bag so I couldn't concentrate on picking up trash (which was too bad as there was a lot of it).   I actually looked at something and was late...
Read more