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Taking preliminary steps towards self-repair – I’m seeing my GP on the 17th to try and get a referral to a clinical psychologist (since that’s the specific kind of therapist covered by OHIP and my workplace medical coverage – I’d have preferred a therapist I can talk to online, but no dice. Although maybe I’ll end up with a psychologist who’s willing to work that way with only the occasional face-to-face visit when time permits.)
At any rate I need to deal with the stress of current events, both personal and political (‘comfort in, dump out’ doesn’t work so well when you’re the sole caretaker and there’s no ring outside you, or at least not one you wish to bother because you know they’ve got their own stuff to deal with).
I read a couple of weeks ago about an international team of scientists visiting a nearly-untouched rainforest in Mozambique that they’d found on Google Earth – the forest isn’t all that remote, but it’s on top of a plateau with almost vertical sides.
Of course one of the things about modern expeditions (apart from the slightly greater likelihood that at least some of the scientists will be from the country being explored) is that internet lets the participants live-blog stuff to their friends, family and colleagues.
I still rather liked the 84-year-old lepidopterist who seems to be one of the last of his kind – a naturalist who doesn’t actually have a doctorate in his field, he’s just been doing it as a really dedicated amateur for so long that he’s acknowledged by the people with doctorates as the go-to expert. He wasn’t quite able to make it up to the plateau, he stayed in base camp drinking whisky with the younger researchers who brought their specimens for him to look at.
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul has a website; or as they put it, “the oldest and largest covered market in the world is now online.”
There is a modern (2010) opera of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious, with a libretto in Swedish.
At any rate I need to deal with the stress of current events, both personal and political (‘comfort in, dump out’ doesn’t work so well when you’re the sole caretaker and there’s no ring outside you, or at least not one you wish to bother because you know they’ve got their own stuff to deal with).
I read a couple of weeks ago about an international team of scientists visiting a nearly-untouched rainforest in Mozambique that they’d found on Google Earth – the forest isn’t all that remote, but it’s on top of a plateau with almost vertical sides.
Of course one of the things about modern expeditions (apart from the slightly greater likelihood that at least some of the scientists will be from the country being explored) is that internet lets the participants live-blog stuff to their friends, family and colleagues.
I still rather liked the 84-year-old lepidopterist who seems to be one of the last of his kind – a naturalist who doesn’t actually have a doctorate in his field, he’s just been doing it as a really dedicated amateur for so long that he’s acknowledged by the people with doctorates as the go-to expert. He wasn’t quite able to make it up to the plateau, he stayed in base camp drinking whisky with the younger researchers who brought their specimens for him to look at.
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul has a website; or as they put it, “the oldest and largest covered market in the world is now online.”
There is a modern (2010) opera of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious, with a libretto in Swedish.
