Weekly reading/watching meme

[petronia]

Books:
Plugging away at the Borges interviews. The interviewer dude is très French.

EDIT -- back to the Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish thing. (A boring Saturday morning spent in queue at the walk-in clinic.) Of the three main "paths," I'm most enjoying the exophilosophy series -- unsurprisingly as it falls in line with the Carson, etc. The same names crop up, except instead of the topic being love, or God, or time, it's aliens. (Man, after all that Borges I was dying to know what Berkeley thought about aliens!!!) The story path starts slow but eventually goes off in an interesting direction. The porn path... is not for the easily triggered. XD; Personally, I'd've preferred less conflation of "exophilia" with exploitation, but the link is wrapped up in a logical argument. Can't fault the writer for imaginativeness, anyway.

Comics:
All the Captain Marvel I had lying around (up to #11), one of Erin's volumes of Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. (so... lots of Monica Rambeau), the first Avengers Assemble hardcover.

I'm not a hate-reader, but I gotta say, when I see ppl complaining that they don't like Filipe Andrade's or Emma Rios's art I'm like, YOU ARE WRONG IN A COMMENT SECTION! ON THE INTERNETS!

Movies/TV:
I've been getting an attack of sore throat/randomly spiking fever, sometimes exacerbated by other bodily dysfunctions (lower back pain, inflamed gums...), every month or two. The least-bad thing this could be is a recurrent sinus infection, in which case it's a pretty special one since my nose doesn't get stuffed up, and also I thought the antibiotics for the root canal infection that gave me stomachache (the drugs, not the infection) had taken care of the sinus issue, but that shiz keeps coming back like Ultron. The latest new symptom is tinnitus. :D :D :D So no, it was not a good winter, and this is starting to bum me out. In the meantime, I was afflicted with the inability to brain and so watched an evening's worth of JoJo. Think I'm on episode 11 now? 12? JOSEPH. Why are you flawless.

EDIT -- went and saw The Great Gatsby with the family, for Mother's Day. I'm happy to drop $15 for Baz Luhrmann's ridiculous 3D envisioning of Fitzgerald's novel, with a zebra in the swimming pool and Carey Mulligan wearing 500 lbs. of Swarovski crystals and Jay-Z executive-producing the soundtrack. I'm somewhat less happy to drop $15 for Tobey Maguire to read the entirety of Fitzgerald's novel out loud, in his reedy voice and frankly baffling accent work. I wish it had been possible to experience the one without the other.

(Just in case it was not enough to have Carey, Leo, etc. acting at you while Tobey told you in voiceover what was happening on the screen RIGHT NOW, sometimes the actual text of the book also came up? Like a cross between the Sherlock floating-text conceit and the Atonement ominous-typewriter conceit. It's like this movie was made to accompany that "reworded" abridged Gatsby for ESL students.)

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

FWIW I'n never stuffed up with my many sinus infections, if you mean 'unable to breathe for nasal congestion.' It's all heaviness and pressure and achy round the eye; also wanhope and malaise and despair, which is what really tells me it's an infection.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, at least I'm not the only one who gets the wanhope and despair. XD

[yumiyoshi.livejournal.com]

I've had insane sinus infections that go on for ages, but usually massive pain and, uh, a whole lotta pus is a symptom even if congestion isn't ...? (Apologies.) As for diagnostics, I dunno about Canada but here usually after the first X rounds of infections you get booted to a CT scan, which can show much better if there is inflammation or if something else is going on.

*hugs* and hope you feel better/it gets taken care of asap!

[yumiyoshi.livejournal.com]

(and as long as I'm playing dr house, infections in the nose/throat/ear often invade each others' territories, which is why ENT is a specialty of its own - so it definitely could be related, and definitely get it checked out. *shoos off to doctor*)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I did go and see a doctor (I'd actually been trying to see a doctor for several weeks, before this latest acute flareup XD;). Got an ENT referral and a radiology clinic thing -- I think it's X-rays though, not CT? So next step is on Monday. The appointment lasted a good three minutes. orz

[yumiyoshi.livejournal.com]

An X-ray is a 2-D CT! I once had to write a very short article about how on the whole Canadian healthcare went for the less fancy/massively costly options, exemplified by choosing X-rays over CT scans, and still had pretty good measured outcomes. tl;dr you should be fine, and I salute your sane medical care system.