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Jun. 11th, 2012 01:58 pm
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Ugh, slept v. badly last night. The one-a-day drug I take (anastrozole) can have a side effect of hot flashes, and they seem to come and go in cycles. One month I will have almost none; the next month they come in waves. Also, I think that perhaps Chango is becoming afraid of the dark, because when I turn out my light to go to sleep, she comes to my side of the bed, anxious and wanting comfort. She is nine years old, so I guess this is to be expected to some degree. Last night I got up and found an old nightlight we have and plugged it in -- that seemed to help, so it'll be interesting to see what happens tonight. (She's fine during the day, btw.)

May put down the Steinbeck for a while -- it's a decent read, but the biological collection methods of 1940 were horrific, to say the least. As just one example, they caught a sea turtle,

... cut off its head with an axe (and marveled at how it kept flopping around on the deck), sawed it apart to get to its organs (and marveled at how the heart kept beating for hours), tried cooking the meat (and found it inedible and disgusting), tried saving the shell as a ship's ornament (and ended up throwing it away because it never dried/cured properly). Also they shot a shark through the fin (it kept swimming and got away), harpooned rays, and clubbed Sally Lightfoot crabs to death, which you would think would have defeated the whole idea of collecting specimens.

Remember, this is 1940, but YE GODS.



Anyway. Watched the Tony Awards last night and was happy to see Nina Arianda win for lead actress in Venus in Fur. She was in Born Yesterday last year with RSL, and was nominated for that role also. So that's a good thing. :-D
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