Sep. 25th, 2006

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It appears that this day will be small. I will do minimal things that I know are on my plate, and little else. I am battling fatigue/depression again, for unknown reasons.

Funny OTD: Mama rat and babies got moved into a large multi-level cage yesterday. Babies are not climbing yet but they will be within 3 or 4 days. When I put them in, they were wandering around the floor of the cage, and mama was frantically trying to round them up. As of last night, she'd solved the problem by moving them all into the wire basket hanging from the top of the cage.

They can't crawl out of it, but they can fall out of it. Luckily, baby rats bounce. But this does mean rescuing the fallen ones and returning them to the basket occasionally. (Mama will do this when she notices before I do, of course.)

Baby rats cheer me up.

I do not want to go to Yom Kippur services at all, but when the time comes (Sunday night, Monday) I will do some minimal attendance. The only part that resonates with me much at all is Yizkor (the memorial prayer) on Monday. I will fast as long as my blood glucose values stay OK.

I just don't "get" large-scale denial of normal everyday pleasures for religious reasons. The first few years I paid attention to it, I tried so hard to get into it, and it's Just Not My Thing, OK? Pesach is easier; it's more of a game to try to avoid chametz for eight days, and the substitute foods are tasty enough that I'd eat them even when it isn't Pesach. And I like matzah enough that I'd probably do OK even without the "imitation chametz."
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All today I have been reading about the death of John M. Ford. For some reason I thought "this is someone I should recognize, but I don't."

Well, duh. His book The Dragon Waiting is one of the ones Ben and I are both reading right now. And it is excellent.

Sigh.

In his honor, I am going to go soak in the tub and read some more of it.

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