Brain Rumblings

My brain is on fire.  I have a migraine that won't let up.  It has been intense the last two days and in the worst moments I feel like I'm coming apart.  Ripping at the seams.  I am functioning enough to get through my day job but there is nothing left over by the time I get home.  Hollowed out.  Think pumpkin-seed entrails. What the hell is bringing this on?  Stress?  Probably but when isn't life stressful. I am unable to string together enough coherent thoughts together.

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

i read Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and really couldn't put it down. i decided to read the first chapter and i was hooked and not in a small way. for example i resented having to go into work because it would be too many hours before i could pick up the book again. it's a good blend of humor and action. it's a heist with a fantasy-magic-teen fiction vibe. it was also a lot of fun. i had a clear sense of each of the characters, their power-abilities and i cared about whether they lived or died. i will admit there was one moment in the story where i rolled my eyes because it felt overdone (summer blockbuster overdone). i let it slide and kept going. basically i devoured 465 pages in 4 days.  when i had less than 60 pages left i knew that there was still more story left to tell...luckily i only have until september before the new book Crooked Kingdom comes out. it's been months since i've been excited over something i've read.

peace,
l~

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9:03 am

Last night I dreamt about vampires and succubi having a night of awakening where they changed into their true nature and the rest of the world would be their playing field. At morning light, no one but the changelings would remember.  It was a dark dream full of sinister desires.

Jumping thoughts...
A show host asked some actors (tv & theater), "which do you prefer, making money or doing theater?"  It made me laugh out loud because it's so true.  You do theater for the love of it. I miss it.  It's been years since I've worked on a theater project. I have skeletons of plays in my file cabinet...it's time to bring them back out into the light and flesh them out.

I remember skimming thru a short quick piece I had written long ago and I had a moment of "when did I write this?" It had been so long since I had seen that 10 minute play that I thought it belonged to someone else because I didn't remember every writing the words that were on the page.  Yes, it belonged to me, my name was on every page. Good lord the making of a mad woman.  I've gone on long enough, I need a shower and some breakfast to face my day.

Peace,

Lily

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