I've not written anything like in forever, and I mean to rectify that immediately...
Hmmm... what have I been doing?
Well, I've been learning Esperanto. Why Esperanto? Why not? It's interesting and fun. Vere!
A lot of meditation. Doing green-card paperwork (off to Seoul tomorrow for translations of Korean documents...) Been on winter break, so been a little bored, I guess. And that's okay, I needed recovery time (see below). Been kind of lazing about, to be honest...
Had a hernia operation a few weeks ago (the second one in six years). Figured why not get it down here, where it's cheap? Spent just under a week in the hospital, which was while not fun, not horrible either. The first day was bad ... throwing up, etc, but after that, was just healing and recuperating. Being in the hospital is a little like being on retreat. It's just you and your body... no outside interference, and that's all you're worried about, you and your body.
Went to my Father-In-Law's birthday party last weekend...Trying to learn how to poach eggs (and failing) --
Read a wonderful book "Shadow Country" by Peter Matthiessen. It is a massive book, and I got though most of it in the hospital -- the last part, EJ Watson talking in the 1st person after his death, reminded me of Dante's Inferno, so I'm rereading the book now. I'm actually going to try to continue all the way through Purgatorio and Paradiso -- Usually I kind of stall in the middle of Purgatorio. This time, all the way to the top of Heaven's mountain!
Saw sone great movies: "Avatar", "500 days of Summer".
The weather has been nice... Almost springy, which I like! Roll on Spring! I miss you!
Good to see you back. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, be glad we didn't pay to see Paranormal Activity. I would still be complaining about wasting my money on it. ;) DL'd and watched it last night. Maybe the last 1/3 of it was better but the first 2/3 was making me sleepy so I turned it off and tossed it.
Wow. A week in the hospital? In the USA, it's done laproscopically and it's an out-patient procedure. They usually have you on your feet and out the door within hours of the surgery. Well, you get what you pay for I guess. You said it was 'cheap.' Cheap pain. Hmm.. There's an interesting study of economics in there someplace.
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