Into the Void: down two senses edition
Mar. 28th, 2025 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stonepicnicking_okapi1. I have lost my sense of smell and taste. I was sick earlier in the week. Had a very rough night on Monday and dragged myself to the drugstore on Tuesday and stumbled out the doors $60 poorer with a bag of OTC cold & allergy stuff and proceeded to self-medicate. I don't know whether it is the illness or the meds or something else. It started (or maybe I noticed it?) AFTER I was getting better.
But it has done a number on me psychologically. It's weird. What's the point of eating besides sating hunger? I can taste salt and acid (like the acid of citrus fruit) but I can't tell the flavor of anything.
2. This led me to decide to DNF Salt. Fat. Acid. Heat. by Samin Nosrat. I thought as it is an unconventional cooking book it might teach me to appreciate cooking. Or to care about cooking or food. Or see it differently. It did not. And she uses the word 'should' too much. And now I can't even smell or taste anything! Crazy and pointless.
3. I am trying to psyche myself up to apply to work at the grocery store across the street. I am so afraid. Of even applying. I keep ignoring it. References. I haven't talked to another adult in 10 years and you want references. Yah! Maybe Wal-Mart, too? I think if I just do one application it won't seem so daunting, and I can do another.
4. Yesterday I forced Minisculus to go to his elementary school library night at our local library branch AND we got to go back and see how the returned books are sorted. It was fascinating. There is a complicated conveyor belt which checks the books in and then sorts them to the other five branches. Very cool. Libraries are so cool.
5. I have a nice free weekend before the soccer and track starts up next weekend. I am going to try to enjoy it. And get ahead and caught up on so many things.
6. Behind on my Sherlock Sunday, no collaging, under my word count for the month, I tried doing 75 hard and failed on the 7th day (another way to procrastinate actually filling out an application: drink a gallon of water and pee all day long), maybe saying it aloud will help reverse the trend.
7. My new favorite Youtube channels is this Korean guy who takes very elaborate camping trips with his small brown dog named Ryua.
But it has done a number on me psychologically. It's weird. What's the point of eating besides sating hunger? I can taste salt and acid (like the acid of citrus fruit) but I can't tell the flavor of anything.
2. This led me to decide to DNF Salt. Fat. Acid. Heat. by Samin Nosrat. I thought as it is an unconventional cooking book it might teach me to appreciate cooking. Or to care about cooking or food. Or see it differently. It did not. And she uses the word 'should' too much. And now I can't even smell or taste anything! Crazy and pointless.
3. I am trying to psyche myself up to apply to work at the grocery store across the street. I am so afraid. Of even applying. I keep ignoring it. References. I haven't talked to another adult in 10 years and you want references. Yah! Maybe Wal-Mart, too? I think if I just do one application it won't seem so daunting, and I can do another.
4. Yesterday I forced Minisculus to go to his elementary school library night at our local library branch AND we got to go back and see how the returned books are sorted. It was fascinating. There is a complicated conveyor belt which checks the books in and then sorts them to the other five branches. Very cool. Libraries are so cool.
5. I have a nice free weekend before the soccer and track starts up next weekend. I am going to try to enjoy it. And get ahead and caught up on so many things.
6. Behind on my Sherlock Sunday, no collaging, under my word count for the month, I tried doing 75 hard and failed on the 7th day (another way to procrastinate actually filling out an application: drink a gallon of water and pee all day long), maybe saying it aloud will help reverse the trend.
7. My new favorite Youtube channels is this Korean guy who takes very elaborate camping trips with his small brown dog named Ryua.
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Date: 2025-03-29 03:04 pm (UTC)Yeah, I know, it's just...weird. I keep testing myself and I keep failing the test.