This week I\u2019m so tired I can\u2019t talk about any of the things I\u2019d thought of. I\u2019d thought of telling you about my writing, about my cousin, about eh World Science Fiction convention. They\u2019re all subjects that contain many aspects of interest. I finished a novel, and have to edit some non-fiction, and have so much writing news and I spent five amazing days sitting at my own desk and travelling the world.<\/p>\n
Maybe I\u2019ll tell you about my writing next time.<\/p>\n
What I want to say this time is short and sweet. Four things. Four simple things.<\/p>\n
1. I am through July. This not just a thing. This is a Thing. July and I have a mutually inamicable agreement. I hates it, as a rule. And I\u2019m through it. If I could travel right now, the early wattles would be on the edge of bloom and the big road from here to Sydney will be lined with yellow in a measly two weeks. I have a bus ticket I was supposed to use in May. I intend to pretend to use it in about two weeks. I shall take out pictures from other bus trips to Sydney and I shall let my computer travel down that road for me this year.<\/p>\n
2. Canberra has no COVID-19 reported right now. We have the most cases in the whole country to the south of us in Victoria and the second most in New South Wales, which surrounds us. I looked at a map. I then went online and ordered food to stock my cupboards, for there are a lot of people at this stupid moment in human history who carry that stupid with them and ignore closed borders and warnings and face masks. This is how Victoria went from one of the safest places in the world to a place where my cousin died alone, and I am unhappy with stupid, right now. I suspect all of us are. I won\u2019t be happier after her funeral on Wednesday, but I will have said farewell, which is something. She was much older than me and I didn\u2019t see her very often, but she was important, and her mother was important, and, anyway, no-one should have to die alone. I wasn\u2019t going to talk about this. Let me return to not talking about it.<\/p>\n
3. I couldn\u2019t see all the planetary alignments tonight. I did see one, and the moon had a halo, and a friend said, \u201cGo outside and take picture.\u201d It was so cold that I put on my superwarm dressing gown. I didn\u2019t care if people saw it. I got through July \u2013 I can go outside when it\u2019s that cool. I can and I did and I came inside fairly quickly. I meant to make myself hot chocolate, but I had a glass of water and kept watching\u2026<\/p>\n
4. What does one do when overtired and overcold and has got through July safely and needs emotional escape? I could decide between a complete X-Men rewatch or a complete Avengers rewatch, or Stardust. I\u2019m watching all of them. No more than two movies a day, but all of them. Also, I\u2019m willing to add to the list if anyone feels there are things that ought to be on that list. (I don\u2019t normally have access to this many movies, but I have Netflix and Disney+ until life returns to normal, for living alone requires company). By the time I\u2019m finished, winter will be over and the wattle will be here. Yellow on trees in this part of the world is the harbinger of summer. In two weeks, everything will improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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