I actually got a nap after seeing my chiropractor. Is good. Needed to go to bed at my normal time; I took my Kindle in with me and read for a few minutes, and then completely forgot where it was. I was just about to go check if I'd left it in the car, since I knew I did get out of the final store I went to after the chiropractor with it.
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An article by and about the little girl star of Terry Gilliam’s Baron Munchausen movie. Her experiences in making it and how it’s affected her life since.
The Turkish hilltop where civilization began. I hadn’t known that Gobekli Tepe means Potbelly Hill. I’ll take the title with a grain of salt, but it’s a fascinating place.
Chocolate sorbet recipe from The Guardian.
An archaeological dig near Cambridge has produced a ditch with around 8000 frog bones. This seems to mean a lot of frogs. More than 150, it appears.
Ancient women’s teeth (Medieval, anyway) have provided evidence for the origin of the black plague of the 14th Century.
The book that tore publishing apart. The article’s from The Guardian. The book is a teacher’s memoir. The reasons it caused such an uproar are entirely legitmate.
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Good news this week. Remember my college friend that I sometimes talk about as writing science fiction? He and his wife (she does horror, mostly) are among the professional Guests of Honor for this year's WorldCon.
School's out! My big plans for the rest of the week involved the laundromat we go to and my sheets. My granddaughter was going to help me fold them once the washing part was done — California king sheets are horrible for one person to handle. The rental company fixed the lock on the laundry room, so I didn’t go to the laundromat. My granddaughter did help me fold them — and double-check my other sheets, and get my linen cupboard sorted out.
I have other chores in mind to get some help with before school starts up again.
My chiropractor says I need to practice getting up and down off the floor quite a bit more than I have been. She also said that how I got up at the end of my appointment (the easiest way to get off one of her tables is to slide off onto the floor) was a vast improvement on the previous time.
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