still tired

ahem.  still tired.  but nothing a few lazy days won’t fix–that’s to come in a few days.

VERY tired

No blog posts these days–I have been VERY tired and unfocused due to a social obligation of mine that has my house crowded with guests each evening. Everyday I gear my mind up to the big event and there is room for very little else. Tonight is the last night of my social responsibilities–and [...]

evidence of symptoms

A friend of mine, also suffering from a brain injury with fantastically similar symptoms to those of my stroke, shared some of her tendencies with me. “I buy the same books over and over!” she exclaimed, throwing her arms up in frustration.
I bought two copies of About Alice by Calvin Trillin last week. [...]

Up! Down, down, down. Up! Down.

I think I will always schedule an uplifting appointment on the same days as speech therapy appointment days, which heave an unpredictable mood onto me. Speech therapy has sent me into the doldrums and it has also been a marker of great progress. It’s become such a marker of mood that I’ve used [...]

awesome fluent links

Elizabeth, over at Fluent, has compiled a little (but valuable) list of literary magazine resources on her blog. This list inclues ZYZZYVA’s post on a list of nearly 2,000 litmags. I’d say it lists every litmag in existence, except for the fact that I don’t see Small Spiral Notebook there for some [...]

a visit

I was a little quiet here last week because my mom came to visit while my husband was out of town–a functional visit of sorts: she was here to keep me company and “babysit” but of course she came to see me, her first visit since my stroke over a month ago. It’s not [...]

Happy New Year

btw–Happy Lunar New Year, everyone! It is now the year of the (Golden) Pig, and I’m looking forward to a new fortune. My goal for today is to get me a big bowl of Korean dduk gook (rice cake soup) to kick off the year.
Update: My father, like W’s at Loud Solitude [...]

Murakami–After Dark

I am enough of an oldie internet geek to think “After Dark–Isn’t that a screen saver with flying toasters?” when I heard the words “After Dark.” (We used to point to the Berkeley Systems building on Shattuck and Rose and exclaim, “Flying toasters!” But in fact, After Dark is the title of Haruki Murakami’s upcoming [...]

speech therapy part deux

Ahem! After weeks of waiting after my initial speech therapy appointment for insurance approval and scheduling, etc., etc., I have finally embarked on speech therapy (yes, a weird misnomer–my speech therapist is supposed to help me with my memory) in earnest. Friday was my second appointment, a long awaited second episode in an ongoing series.
My [...]

The Book List (meme)

Oooh–a great book meme from Charlotte’s Web.
Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicise the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a 10 foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones [...]

Hurtling

A few days ago, I wrote about my embarrassment and puzzlement over my current emotional state(s). What was up with my moodiness? Why did I spend the first month of my stroke recovery in blissful ignorance, weirdly optimistic and upbeat? I supposed it was my own inability to process what was going [...]

camels+books=camel bookmobile

My buddy Susan brought up the news about a Camel Bookmobile in Africa, bringing books (via camel, natch) to readers in Africa.
You can send books to:
Garissa Provincial Library
For Camel Library
Librarian in Charge, Rashid M. Farah
P.O. Box 245
Garissa, Kenya
And now the Camel Book Drive has its own website. Check it out.