October 2024
Dec. 27th, 2024 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fauxkloreWhy, yes, I am still having trouble with my attention span.
I must have done something in October, but most of it was not particularly memorable. There were the usual meetings involving storytelling and crafts and board games and such. And, of course, the Jewish holidays took up a lot of time. I think I saw the movie Small Things Like These, which Cindy was interested in because of her childhood Catholic school trauma. We might have seen it in November. Anyway, the movie is about the Magdalene Laundries and the control exerted by the nuns in a small town. It was well-acted, but depressing.
The biggest thing I did in October was take a quick trip to San Francisco to go to the Moby Dick Marathon at the Maritime Museum there. You may recall I had been to the New Bedford, Massachusetts Moby Dick Marathon previously. This is a much smaller event, but was still fun. It was reasonably well-organized, as they had people sign up for specific chapters in advance. (I chose Chapter 8, The Pulpit.) I would go to this again. (I’d also go to New Bedford again. And there is a Moby Dick Marathon in Mystic, Connecticut, too. And possibly one in Sag Harbor, New York. It’s a book well suited to marathon reading and not only because of its length.) If I do go again, I'll be able to plan better and spend more time actually exploring the museum.
The major problem I had was that my knee, which had been doing better, had started hurting badly again, probably because of the long walk through IAD. That also led to my sleeping badly, so I only lasted until about 6:30 at night, which was disappointing. But so it goes.
I must have done something in October, but most of it was not particularly memorable. There were the usual meetings involving storytelling and crafts and board games and such. And, of course, the Jewish holidays took up a lot of time. I think I saw the movie Small Things Like These, which Cindy was interested in because of her childhood Catholic school trauma. We might have seen it in November. Anyway, the movie is about the Magdalene Laundries and the control exerted by the nuns in a small town. It was well-acted, but depressing.
The biggest thing I did in October was take a quick trip to San Francisco to go to the Moby Dick Marathon at the Maritime Museum there. You may recall I had been to the New Bedford, Massachusetts Moby Dick Marathon previously. This is a much smaller event, but was still fun. It was reasonably well-organized, as they had people sign up for specific chapters in advance. (I chose Chapter 8, The Pulpit.) I would go to this again. (I’d also go to New Bedford again. And there is a Moby Dick Marathon in Mystic, Connecticut, too. And possibly one in Sag Harbor, New York. It’s a book well suited to marathon reading and not only because of its length.) If I do go again, I'll be able to plan better and spend more time actually exploring the museum.
The major problem I had was that my knee, which had been doing better, had started hurting badly again, probably because of the long walk through IAD. That also led to my sleeping badly, so I only lasted until about 6:30 at night, which was disappointing. But so it goes.
