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eve_prime in academics_anon

Pro-active exhaustion planning

Feb 19, 2007 15:56

Here's a follow-up on our discussion of light reading, from last week.

What do you do when you're bone-tired and don't even want to budge, and couldn't possibly do any work-related reading, but for whatever reason it's not suitable to go to sleep yet?

I try to keep handy a stack of very light reading and picture books. Tonight I think I'll be ( Read more... )

recommendations, stress

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sensaes February 20 2007, 00:12:36 UTC

Pink Panther cartoons.

They rock.

eve_prime February 20 2007, 00:32:31 UTC

Ooh, yeah. I bet the Roadrunner would be good too. I have a DVD of the early syncopated Popeye cartoons, those are good.

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eve_prime February 20 2007, 00:35:58 UTC

I meant that he and Bluto move around in syncopated rhythm. It's relaxing to watch, even though they're smashing each other to bits.

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zaftig46 February 20 2007, 00:16:37 UTC

Turner Classic movies, recently added to our list of cable channels is always good for light-and-fluffy films you've always wanted to see.
Catching up on LJ is also most excellent for the mental exhaustion.
Finally, nothing calms me down like a selection of early music on Mr iPod. (Mr iPod is the love of my life.)

eve_prime February 20 2007, 00:33:20 UTC

Early music, good idea! I bet all those old David Munrow albums I have on vinyl are available digitally now. Thanks. :)

bellebonnesage February 20 2007, 22:33:55 UTC

they are!

http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/performers/munrow.html

CDs are towards the end.

eve_prime February 20 2007, 22:57:59 UTC

Wow, thanks! I can see the trends my wish lists are going to be taking -- there are albums here I'd never heard of. I definitely need to get that Ferdinand and Isabella CD right away, I really miss it. :)

a_kosmos February 20 2007, 00:24:07 UTC

Lois Lowry's Anastasia Krupnik novels... I read them obsessively when I was a kid.

eve_prime February 20 2007, 00:35:00 UTC

Cool - hadn't reached my awareness yet. Thanks.

a_kosmos February 20 2007, 05:35:46 UTC

Anastasia's dad was a Harvard English professor and her mother was an artist and illustrator and their house was filled with books. In one of her books, she buys a bust of Freud at a garage sale, randomly selects pages from one of her dad's Freud books to find answers to her problems, and accidentally lets a pack of hamsters loose in the house.

I've read before I went to sleep pretty much every night. Sometimes when I'm stressed, I reread stuff that I've read a lot of times.

eve_prime February 20 2007, 05:43:42 UTC

It is definitely stress-reducing to reread favorites, I agree! I end up getting a fair number of books from the kids' and y.a. sections of the library - last year I read a bunch of Eva Ibbotson books and some Shannon Hale. I like being able to trust that the authors will be reasonably kind to the readers.

bike4fish February 20 2007, 00:24:22 UTC

Winnie the Poo never fails to knock me out.

eve_prime February 20 2007, 00:39:14 UTC

Silly old bear. :) Come to think of it, we have a lot of episodes of the TV cartoon; those would be perfect.

bike4fish February 20 2007, 09:48:23 UTC

I just read the books. Never saw the animated stuff.

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eve_prime February 20 2007, 00:37:34 UTC

I was watching the Golden Girls in the morning while I ate breakfast for a while. I think the schedule's changed.

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eve_prime February 20 2007, 05:27:59 UTC

It's just as well that it's not on when I eat breakfast these days, because sometimes I ended up watching The Nanny too. Actually I hate to confess how often.

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