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Feb. 8th, 2023 11:49 am I just finished a "goal pace" run, so I'm kind of tired and just chilling on the couch after coming home and scarfing down a bunch of food. Between running and weight lifting it seems like I'm almost constantly hungry. I have a doctor appointment next week, but have never received lab orders for blood work so ... what's going on? I don't see anything on the web portal, not that I can interact with. There's some descriptions of lab work, but nothing I can print and take to a lab or anything, so I have no idea what to do. I'm torn between rescheduling for May, since I have more than enough medication, and just showing up next week. Hey, if you want me to get a blood draw, you have to tell me, explicitly. Don't assume I know anything.
I've recently finished Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield, and it was excellent. I did not exactly anticipate the ending, though she drops some hints at it. The comparisons to Poe and Dickens are accurate. Next up, I have The Thirteenth Tale, which I'll be starting probably tonight. I also finished The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction, a good antidote to the hysterical articles about "Is Google making us stupid?" and why screens are bad, etc. We've always been like this, in short. Though with monks, the stakes were different, and much higher - distraction was literally a matter of spiritual life and death. There's no secret fix here, the monks in question were pretty much like me and you in that they had to fight daydreams, laziness, nosy neighbors, self-doubt, and a host of other troubles that kept them from their stated goal of concentrating upon God. The medieval mind worked differently from our modern ones - in some cases. I think my brain tends to operate more on a medieval method, prone to making connections across books and across different fields of study, categorizing, and synthesizing masses of apparently unrelated information. More like the branches of a tree than a straight line. It was a frustrating thing when you're in school and your way of thinking is nothing like the way of thinking they're trying to force you into, but it's enjoyable to read about people who were very highly regarded whose minds worked in a way similar to yours.
Anyway.
I have the Gate River Run on March 4, and I'm hoping that if I get an early starting wave, that I'll be able to run like I belong there.
Might go out this afternoon and walk through our woods to look for antler sheds. It's early everywhere else, but I think it's about the right time for Florida.
I've recently finished Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield, and it was excellent. I did not exactly anticipate the ending, though she drops some hints at it. The comparisons to Poe and Dickens are accurate. Next up, I have The Thirteenth Tale, which I'll be starting probably tonight. I also finished The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction, a good antidote to the hysterical articles about "Is Google making us stupid?" and why screens are bad, etc. We've always been like this, in short. Though with monks, the stakes were different, and much higher - distraction was literally a matter of spiritual life and death. There's no secret fix here, the monks in question were pretty much like me and you in that they had to fight daydreams, laziness, nosy neighbors, self-doubt, and a host of other troubles that kept them from their stated goal of concentrating upon God. The medieval mind worked differently from our modern ones - in some cases. I think my brain tends to operate more on a medieval method, prone to making connections across books and across different fields of study, categorizing, and synthesizing masses of apparently unrelated information. More like the branches of a tree than a straight line. It was a frustrating thing when you're in school and your way of thinking is nothing like the way of thinking they're trying to force you into, but it's enjoyable to read about people who were very highly regarded whose minds worked in a way similar to yours.
Anyway.
I have the Gate River Run on March 4, and I'm hoping that if I get an early starting wave, that I'll be able to run like I belong there.
Might go out this afternoon and walk through our woods to look for antler sheds. It's early everywhere else, but I think it's about the right time for Florida.
