Horses are good company -- The Witcher

For record-keeping, and for the curious, here are some of my remaining concussion symptoms,

--Feeling clammy (cold but sweating)
--emotionally labile: snappish, anxious, overwhelmed
--Sometimes dizzy and motion-sensitive
--Needing to sleep and rest a lot. This is not new but is worse, and I need to stop myself from doing things.

There's a certain "sensory" component, i use quotes because I don't have a lot of experience with this term and I don't want to appropriate it from autistic people, but I'm not sure how else to describe it. It's seeking out soft clothes, being bothered by clothing tags, that sort of thing. When I first got home I put on the string lights (aka Christmas lights), wore my boiled wool jacket 24/7, listened to my favorite songs. I am going to continue this practice-- trying to calm the nervous system down.

I went to see the Barbie movie with a couple of friends, and I was a little worried I was not going to be able to handle it. But going to the movies is one of my favorite things of all time.
Turns out the movie was fine but the previews were difficult. I closed my eyes for the previews. This was a good movie to see because it does not have a lot of flashing lights, quick motion, spinning camera, etc, and it was fairly light-hearted and funny.

I just discovered something that may help with my food issues (but is annoying), and that is to plug my nose while eating.

The air quality right now is in the "very unhealthy" category. The smoke is so thick you can barely see across Lake Monona. It's a natural disaster that, from what I can tell, is not being treated as such. I suppose people are tired of public health events involving the air.

Thank you to my friend who gave me Dreamwidth points!! I super appreciate it! I have a whole bunch of icons now and I can post frivolous polls for 6 months.

As I am not using Twitter right now (possibly never again!), I am trying to use this space more.

I feel stuck in the apartment due to air quality alerts, so I am trying to clean and improve the space. I am watching a little bit of a show, cleaning for a few minutes, then going back to the show. Shows I've watched recently:

Somebody, Somewhere. HBO.
This is an interesting comedy about a woman, Sam, living in the small university town of Manhattan, Kansas. She's lonely and grieving but an old high school classmate named Joel befriends her. They have a ton of fun together. Joel and several of the other characters are queer. Sam is a fat woman and it was so nice to see her just using her body and enjoying it. She swims, walks, bikes, sings. She seems to be un-selfconscious in this way.

The Bear, season 2. Hulu.

This was so good...?! I was really into it. However, I skipped the Christmas episode, which seemed to be one hour of yelling, and did not take place at the restaurant, and did not have my favorite characters (Sydney, Tina, Marcus). I was very moved by some of the character arcs! I loved the music!

"The Bear" does not pass my friend's test of "are there any queer characters?" Which is odd in this day and age.

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