Wandering Around Talking To Rainbows

So yeah, I haven't posted in over a month, and I'm struggling to get over that block. But! As I've been burying myself in doing things and avoiding the horrors I have actually managed to achieve a few things so I'm going to talk about those things!

I've watched some new-to-me films! I spent a Sunday afternoon at the cinema drifting through four hours of meditive documentary about a French restaurant. (It was a re-scheduled screening from the film festival.) I had a weird cold - took me out completley for roughly 48 hours, before and after which I was entirely fine - and watched K-Pop Demon Hunters which is delightful, though I suspect I may have zoned out at some point during the final third of the film because it seemed to have a plot hole you could drive a truck through so I think I definitely missed a scene! Speaking of Korean stuff, I've been watching large amounts of Korean food programmes lately. Food and nature shows are my perennial favourites for switch the brain off television and currently K Food Show is my preffered sedative.

I've been making excellent progress on a knitting project - a jumper dress that I was ripping back and reknitting as I hated the way the cable was coming out, it's much better now - mostly thanks to knitting while shouting at the hockey (so many intermissions spent rescuing dropped stitches!) but I'm thinking of tackling the second season of Kingdom as my new knitting companion - though probably that's one for the back of the dress not the front!

I had some annual leave to take and while I didn’t consciously plan it to coincide with the Winter Olympics, it was exactly what I needed that week. So many ridiculous sports, such joy on display, I love it. (I have complicated feelings about the Olympics, and the IOC’s tendency to make utterly batshit decisions about some things. Also the completely arbritary rules about what people wear or don’t wear on track.) I have as usual got absolutely obsessed with the ice hockey, and I picked the best week to be off for that, because I got to watch loads of the women’s games before the men’s competition kicked off so I had favourites all picked out to follow and then search the schedules for - the BBC’s coverage of the ice hockey has been…escoteric… I get that Team GB didn’t qualify so they’re kinda working on the assumption that most of the audience don’t care, but the third period of so many games just haven’t been shown when the rest was, I presume it’s a licensing thing because they’re only available on the live streams not chopped up for later use - and there’s been some great games on display. I had a hilarious run of games where Czechia wiped the floor with Finland, then Canada flattened Czechia, and then the US ran rings round Canada. (Czechia! I arbritarily picked them as my team and then they didn’t get to progress, woe.) I’m also amused that after years of various members of my reading list - here and on tumblr - going through phases of Ice Hockey/NHL obsession over the last decade, I recognise like 75% of (mens) Team Canada, but not a single soul on the US Team. (Hockey RPF is my fandom in law, I guess, I have no interest in it myself - I don’t actually find any of these boys attractive - but I enjoy the sport enough that I can just dodge the fic and the tinhattery and indulge other people’s excitement.) Anyway, apparently like the best way to make my Instagram feed actually usable and non mind breaking is to just follow some PWHL teams? It's re-skewed the algorithmn to sports and queer stuff, such a relief.

The other thing I achieved on my holiday was shortening my curtains! It only took me six and a half years but they are both the correct length and also, I futzed about with the way they hang when I put them back and now they no longer require careful finessing to make sure they don't fall open a tiny but annoying amount. Which is good timing as my sleep schedule has been properly fucked this month and I dread to think how much worse it would have been without the lovely enveloping dark of curtains.