Taking Care
I've been offline for a few days. Our modem died at the house, and Comcast took two days to replace it. I'm caught up with most email and other correspondence, but let me know if I missed anything terribly important.
I've been taking good care of myself in my downtime. I think my diet could be better, but I'm getting along okay all things considered. Most of my days have been spent reading, watching television, playing Little Big Planet and doing little puttery things around the house. I haven't lifted hardly a thing since my surgery and I'm glad of it.
Today the tape finally came off from my surgical wounds. I have some minor scar tissue as a result of the surgery, but not much honestly. Just a few knicks here and there. The saddest thing was that they totally ruined my navel. Whenever people saw my belly button they were always really surprised that it was so flat and shallow, almost as if there had been no cord in the first place. Now there's a lot more concavity to it and the skin actually folds over it a bit. Not to mention that there's a little moon shaped scar on the inside of my navel from the stitches. Maybe I'll get a little blue moon tatto around my new belly button...
Yesterday I ventured out of the house at the behest of faeboy81dc. We went up to UMD and met up with faeshale and had a fast food lunch at the student union building on campus. Then we went and perused the bookstore and I picked up a goodly chunk of reading. Namely:
* Rumi: The Book of Love ed. by Coleman Barks
* The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
* Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by Immanuel Kant
* Sex Between Men by by Douglas Sadownick
* The Chronicles of Amber (omnibus ed. incl. bks 1-10) by Roger Zelazny
* The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (never read it!)
* and a potluck cookbook
Oh, and yesterday I got my copy of "Creating a Life Together" by Diana Leafe Christian. It's a how-to book on building an intentional community, how they work, and how to make it succeed. I'm very excited about that.
I started reading Rumi last night. I kind of wish the editor would stop babbling at me and let me get to the poetry already. I'm still reading the White Goddess, but I think I need to take that book a chapter at a time.
Yesterday I started reorganizing the book collection. I'm going for a less strict arrangement. Mostly I think I'm going to still keep things grouped by subject matter, but I'm not going to get all crazy about the intricacies of the arrangement. (Shocking, I know.) I'm still going to alphabetize by author in most instances, but I'm going to move things around and probably use shelf brackets to delineate subject areas.
And on that note, back to my shelves.
I've been taking good care of myself in my downtime. I think my diet could be better, but I'm getting along okay all things considered. Most of my days have been spent reading, watching television, playing Little Big Planet and doing little puttery things around the house. I haven't lifted hardly a thing since my surgery and I'm glad of it.
Today the tape finally came off from my surgical wounds. I have some minor scar tissue as a result of the surgery, but not much honestly. Just a few knicks here and there. The saddest thing was that they totally ruined my navel. Whenever people saw my belly button they were always really surprised that it was so flat and shallow, almost as if there had been no cord in the first place. Now there's a lot more concavity to it and the skin actually folds over it a bit. Not to mention that there's a little moon shaped scar on the inside of my navel from the stitches. Maybe I'll get a little blue moon tatto around my new belly button...
Yesterday I ventured out of the house at the behest of faeboy81dc. We went up to UMD and met up with faeshale and had a fast food lunch at the student union building on campus. Then we went and perused the bookstore and I picked up a goodly chunk of reading. Namely:
* Rumi: The Book of Love ed. by Coleman Barks
* The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
* Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by Immanuel Kant
* Sex Between Men by by Douglas Sadownick
* The Chronicles of Amber (omnibus ed. incl. bks 1-10) by Roger Zelazny
* The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (never read it!)
* and a potluck cookbook
Oh, and yesterday I got my copy of "Creating a Life Together" by Diana Leafe Christian. It's a how-to book on building an intentional community, how they work, and how to make it succeed. I'm very excited about that.
I started reading Rumi last night. I kind of wish the editor would stop babbling at me and let me get to the poetry already. I'm still reading the White Goddess, but I think I need to take that book a chapter at a time.
Yesterday I started reorganizing the book collection. I'm going for a less strict arrangement. Mostly I think I'm going to still keep things grouped by subject matter, but I'm not going to get all crazy about the intricacies of the arrangement. (Shocking, I know.) I'm still going to alphabetize by author in most instances, but I'm going to move things around and probably use shelf brackets to delineate subject areas.
And on that note, back to my shelves.