My brain is switched on to food references this week. I\u2019m writing a paper on food in Australian fantasy novels. Even if I\u2019ve read the novel before, I\u2019m re-reading it, because I need to apply that brain-switch and analyse everything for food. It’s hard work. I’m placing references into ten different categories. The net result of this was I had no energy to cook yesterday or today.<\/p>\n
This never happened when I was younger.<\/p>\n
I was going to write a long screed describing food, because it’s my current (and absorbing) work, then I changed my mind and wanted to explain that chronic fatigue is impacted by emotional fatigue, which is why food research led to such a state of exhaustion. The events of the last eighteen months welled up and I missed all my lost friends and I became a mewling mess. I decided you didn’t need a long piece today, for the world is a difficult place right now.<\/p>\n
Take this as a moral. Have early nights when life is stressed. Eat comfort food. Cry when you have to.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019ll be working on foodways for a bit longer, so maybe one day I\u2019ll tell you about how writers use food to create miracles in fantasy fiction. Except when they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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