Ouch! So there's that...
Mar. 12th, 2012 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldritchhobbitI'm back from participating in a fantastic colloquium on the political writings of the U.S. anti-slavery movement, which provided me terrific insights and much food for thought.
I stayed at the hotel where the conference was held, an establishment that first opened in 1931 and now is a National Historic Landmark. It was a study in art deco loveliness.
Unfortunately, all of the time I was supposed to spend catching up today was spent in doctors' offices and labs, because something over the weekend went awry with my Achilles tendon, and now it's definitely the wrong size/shape and decidedly less than comfortable in the bargain. Besides taking medication in the short term, it looks like I'll be wearing specially-designed footware for a month (!!!) to see if the tendon decides to behave. Unexpected, inexplicable, and bizarre. Not to mention inconvenient.
I think I owe every human being on the planet*** an email; I'll be catching up very soon, I promise!
As a parting thought, here's the "Sci-Fi Film Alphabet" by Steven Wildish. How many movies can you name?
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*** Only a minor overstatement.
“They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.”
- N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
I stayed at the hotel where the conference was held, an establishment that first opened in 1931 and now is a National Historic Landmark. It was a study in art deco loveliness.
Unfortunately, all of the time I was supposed to spend catching up today was spent in doctors' offices and labs, because something over the weekend went awry with my Achilles tendon, and now it's definitely the wrong size/shape and decidedly less than comfortable in the bargain. Besides taking medication in the short term, it looks like I'll be wearing specially-designed footware for a month (!!!) to see if the tendon decides to behave. Unexpected, inexplicable, and bizarre. Not to mention inconvenient.
I think I owe every human being on the planet*** an email; I'll be catching up very soon, I promise!
As a parting thought, here's the "Sci-Fi Film Alphabet" by Steven Wildish. How many movies can you name?
see more Set Phasers To Lol
*** Only a minor overstatement.
“They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.”
- N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
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Date: 2012-03-13 12:52 am (UTC)Absolutely *gorgeous* hotel! Thanks for all the post cards lately - They have kept me going (I'm dying of the Plague or something...)
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Date: 2012-03-17 08:03 pm (UTC)Isn't that hotel amazing?
Glad to hear the postcards were timed well. I do hope you're feeling much better, my friend! I'm sending positive vibes in your direction!
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Date: 2012-03-17 08:04 pm (UTC)Aw, thanks!
Conference
Date: 2012-03-13 11:44 am (UTC)Re: Conference
Date: 2012-03-17 08:05 pm (UTC)I look forward to keeping in touch. I hope our paths cross again soon!
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Date: 2012-03-13 12:37 pm (UTC)That is one beautiful ceiling! I'd like to go to Cincinnati just to see it (but in late spring or early summer, please.)
The poster is cute, too.
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Date: 2012-03-17 08:07 pm (UTC)That hotel is amazing. There are walking tours of the place! It was a treat to get to stay there.
I loved the poster. :)
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Date: 2012-03-13 04:20 pm (UTC)Z jumped out at me because I have actually seen that movie (about two hours of high-octane WTFery), and this account of it (scroll down to #4) made me laugh until I had to cross my legs . . .
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Date: 2012-03-17 08:09 pm (UTC)OMG, that description of Zardoz is the best. Hysterical! Thanks so much for the brilliant link. (It had me at the floating head "puking rifles to a crowd of diapered men on horseback.")
I hope REVELcon is going brilliantly!
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Date: 2012-03-13 07:45 pm (UTC)Something over the weekend went awry with my Achilles tendon
Good luck with that. I'm fighting with Achilles tendon problems for years now, first left, now right. Bleh :)
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Date: 2012-03-17 08:17 pm (UTC)And thank you for the kind words and good wishes re: my Achilles tendon! :D Much appreciated!
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