waiting

[boxofdelights]

The miserable kind of waiting where you don't actually want to do the thing you're waiting for, but you want to have done it.

I've been waiting to see a cataract surgeon for an evaluation. My appointment was today, but when I got to the office they said no, he's only here once a month, and he was here yesterday. I had the paper on which my eye doctor's office had written the date and time of my appointment, but it didn't get me anything but vindication. And another appointment in August.

I'm also waiting to see my dentist, to patch a chip in my front tooth. She's also going to "adjust" my bite (that means grind down my teeth) and make a retainer for my top teeth. I have a bite guard, that keeps me from grinding in my sleep, but I still clench like a motherfucker, which is pushing my front teeth out of alignment. So, after I see her I will have to try to sleep with a bite guard and a retainer and a CPAP, but in the meantime the chip is getting bigger and my teeth hurt.

I am continuing to KonMari my books. I have a lot of math puzzle books. I love each and every one of them. Some more than others, but I'm not going to tell them that.

• What are you reading?

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. A lot of people have asked me what it's about. I don't have a coherent answer -- plants, and people, and stories, those are the strands, and the braid is how we keep each other alive -- but my obvious enthusiasm keeps prompting them to say they'll check it out.

• What did you recently finish reading?

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder. I decided not to read The Poppy War for SF book group. I don't have any patience left for fictional tyrants.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

Jade City, by Fonda Lee is August's SF book group pick.

• What are you watching?

Stan & Ollie -- why didn't this win any awards?
Frankie Drake Mysteries -- like Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, but in Canada. Frankie has more women in her life but no money.
Can you ever forgive me?
The Lego Batman movie.
And I've just started Fawlty Towers.

Comments

[sovay]

Stan & Ollie -- why didn't this win any awards?

I have no idea!

[boxofdelights]

It is so good!

Yahoo!

[jesse_the_k]

I'd never heard of it, and as I waited for the pageload I thought, "ooh, will John C Reilly be playing Ollie?"

I am so sorry to hear about the medical waiting--all the annoyance of regular waiting, now with extra worry.

Re: Yahoo!

[boxofdelights]

It gave me a new appreciation of Steve Coogan also.

[forestofglory]

Oh I'm sorry about cataract surgon, how frustrating! And the dental stuff sounds very unpleasant as well.

I'm glad you are enjoying Braiding Sweetgrass though. Its a really excellent book.

[boxofdelights]

Thank you! And thank you for recommending Braiding Sweetgrass.

The thing about Braiding Sweetgrass

[jesse_the_k]

...is that it's from the POV of apocalypse survivors. So it gives me hope that some of us may survive.

Re: The thing about Braiding Sweetgrass

[boxofdelights]

Rebecca Roanhorse said that at her author visit for Trail of Lightning, too: that Native American people have experience with surviving in a post-apocalyptic environment.

[baratron]

The medical waiting sounds frustrating as all hell - not least of all the part where you apparently missed an appointment because of someone else's screw up, argh! - and I wish you energy and endurance for dealing with it.

[boxofdelights]

Thank you!