Discoveries

I discovered several things today. One was that I have unintentionally memorised my Richard III monologue. I'd been putting it off til later, but today while I was cleaning toilets (no, I don't do it every day, just most) I started reciting it to myself, and was surprised to find that I knew the whole thing!

I also discovered that the swelling in my finger (basketball injury) has now gone down enough that I can easily remove my ring. I couldn't remove it at all for about four days, and I was getting a bit worried that it was constricting bloodflow or something. Being the medically informed person that I am, I had no idea what was going on. But hey, I figured that it had always stopped swelling before (yes, I have a track record of such injuries). Just hope I never get anything serious, cause it'll be like, 'Nah, she'll be right. Can't be bothered talking to the doctor. I've all always come right before.' Which reminds me of a quote that I saw on a T shirt years ago: 'I intend to live forever. So far, so good.' I always thought it would be funny (in a film) to have a person wearing that in while lying in the casket. It might not be so funny for real. Funerals are not good times for laughing, a point which I (sadly) have to remind myself of once in a while. When you're at the back of the room as a sound technician, and you've never heard of the person who's died, and you're dead bored, sometimes funny things sneak into your brain and it's all you can do to stay silent, never mind keep a straight face. I know, I know, I'm a callous monster . . . but have you ever been in that position? No? Well then.

The last thing that I discovered today is that washing windows is much nicer if you think about the sunshine-water bits (admittedly a minor feature) and try not to focus on the window-grime-dirt bits. (Ooommm - The window is not there. It is only in my mind. Pain is an illusion. The world is beautiful. We are all one. Ooommm . . .) It almost works. Which sometimes is near enough.