Thanks. The economic insecurity is hard; so is being made into a political football. I know you're still a Nat, so I won't say what I think of them. It's not very ladylike, anyway...
Don't know when I'll have time for the Mucha exhibition - though I see it's on until February. The temp exhibitions at least are generally still quite good in terms of curatorial level. The dumbing-down of the rest of the museum nauseates me, though. At the moment, I can't think further ahead than week to week, until I know what Dad's kidney situation is. He's having more tests on Wednesday at the Stone Clinic. Am hoping it is just stones, as those are fairly readily fixable, whereas cancer requires trickier stuff.
We're trying to find ways of keeping the women's Adult Autism group going. It's helped a lot, in terms of "finding my tribe". It's good to be among people with whom you don't need to explain having bizarre enthusiasms and being a bit strange. (Like WarSoc in the old days, but then, I think FRP gaming and fandoms in general have a high level of autistic-spectrum people...)
In terms of managing stress, I now recognise that, yes, it's OK to maintain an 'imaginative retreat' which I can populate with my favourite fandom characters & c, and where I can 'go' to regroup and refresh. It's also been interesting to recognise that some of my favourite characters have traits that would nowadays identify them as ASD: hence the attraction. We tend to gravitate to our own kind.
I wish I could afford to travel more, though I'm now finding Google Streetview helps in terms of enabling me to 'go back' to favourite places. I miss Paris desperately.
Don't know when I'll have time for the Mucha exhibition - though I see it's on until February. The temp exhibitions at least are generally still quite good in terms of curatorial level. The dumbing-down of the rest of the museum nauseates me, though. At the moment, I can't think further ahead than week to week, until I know what Dad's kidney situation is. He's having more tests on Wednesday at the Stone Clinic. Am hoping it is just stones, as those are fairly readily fixable, whereas cancer requires trickier stuff.
We're trying to find ways of keeping the women's Adult Autism group going. It's helped a lot, in terms of "finding my tribe". It's good to be among people with whom you don't need to explain having bizarre enthusiasms and being a bit strange. (Like WarSoc in the old days, but then, I think FRP gaming and fandoms in general have a high level of autistic-spectrum people...)
In terms of managing stress, I now recognise that, yes, it's OK to maintain an 'imaginative retreat' which I can populate with my favourite fandom characters & c, and where I can 'go' to regroup and refresh. It's also been interesting to recognise that some of my favourite characters have traits that would nowadays identify them as ASD: hence the attraction. We tend to gravitate to our own kind.
I wish I could afford to travel more, though I'm now finding Google Streetview helps in terms of enabling me to 'go back' to favourite places. I miss Paris desperately.
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