in which Alex whines

Yoga video lecture 2 is insisting I find a clear wall against which to practice a pose. This house does not have any clear walls.

I don't think I have enough energy to make it through a 45-min yoga session.

I have to call three medical-professional offices, ideally yesterday or the day before. This involves phones.

Good god that's a lot of mucus.

My hands are fucking freezing. (So is the rest of me but the rest of me can wear clothes and still do things, so the rest of me doesn't have it as bad.)

I can't seem to think properly.

Homework trumps both exciting new reading material and exciting newish writing idea. (The reading is Criptiques, which I bought on the strength of the title and also Autistic Hoya is one of the authors. The writing is trans ecofeminism, which needs a lot more thought and reading before I can properly write about it.) Homework also trumps Translucent work and anthology writing. I can't seem to homework.

T'ang poetry in English is a gold-plated pain in the ass.

I try to connect with my mother on a hopefully mutually agreeable level (she is, or was, a poet; she doesn't need to see a lot of my poetry or know that the T'ang poetry assignment is for a queer studies class, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have insight to offer on the T'ang poem draft) and she ignores me. And then she complains about how every time she tries to connect with her kids we ignore her.

Can I go back to bed now?

Do I really have to go to work today?

Ow.

in which Alex tries a positive thought exercise

Last post was twelve whines. Let's see if I can come up with twelve good things:

1) I think I know what to do with the video I need for the Translucent crowdfunding project. I just need to script that shit out, make sure my camera will record enough video (it is not really meant for recording video), and find somewhere to do the filming. And possibly con my sister into helping film, because the vision I've got is cutting back and forth between Alex head talking and Alex hands doing.

2) Irish Breakfast tea with a squirt of honey and a bit of milk.

3) Lots of MS-DOS games available via archive.org.

4) Recommended reading on transmisogyny. So much to add to my booklist!

5) My bookmark from ysabetwordsmith arrived. I like the bitty poem it's got on.

6) "Alex, Wow reading your post is like reading one the weekly readings. Nice job." —classmate in Sustainability for the Common Good

7) June Jordan's Poetry for the People has much of use for Translucent. Must reread those parts.

8) Marriage equality in Florida, and Tallahassee's mayor inviting couples denied courthouse marriages in those Florida counties not currently performing any to come marry in Tallahassee.

9) I think I know where anthology writing is going, now. I just need to make the time to fingers on keyboard until I have between five hundred and twenty-five hundred words.

10) I think I know what my contributions to Translucent (beyond of course assembling the thing) will be. Must research moar! By which I mean read the books I've already got.

11) Apple slices with dark chocolate peanut butter on.

12) I asked kaberett for a prompt for my free-verse poem assignment and it is a lovely prompt that is going to be a lovely poem.

Lucky 13) Blankets. :)

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Ooo new Toby Daye story! Is on McGuire's website. Do not want to fuss with downloading pdf to tablet while on tablet. Will return tonight with opinion!