{"id":2428,"date":"2024-03-25T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T03:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2024-03-25T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T03:53:38","slug":"life-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/03\/25\/life-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Life: Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are still having rain, somehow, as if the brief rainy season grew accustomed to making national news with its excesses, and is performing an encore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am… tired. Late last week, I had the experience of nearly fainting for the first time ever after donating blood. I believe I deserved this for scoffing at others’ need to rest afterward. (Foolish and unwarranted pride is fun to try on, but not fun to wear outside the store – do not purchase it!<\/em>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is big, but my tired thoughts after work feels small, and I am unaccustomed to this smallness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s been about 10 weeks since I relocated, and I still can’t find everything. I am too tired from work to unpack much on weeknights, and some of my furniture where I could put things away remains in storage, so my progress is slow. But it is progress, and I’ll take it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construction has resumed, and there is a fresh trench outside. (Yaay?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know where I am when I wake up. I’m delighted to be back at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite my long to-read lists of very long books, I remain preoccupied with Korean manga. (It is satisfying in small doses that I can consume before falling asleep!) I remain impressed at how many terrible traumas the heroes and heroines of these stories must overcome. I was summarizing one for my guy friend, telling him about how this young woman had survived her mother’s suicide and family’s abuse, only to escape into feudal poverty, raise her dead best friend’s children as her own, narrowly avoid the children’s trampling deaths, and be indebted to a bloodthirsty nobleman who requires her to become his live-in woman. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The increasingly horrified look on my friend’s face as I described this was superbly dramatic<\/em>. And THIS IS ONE OF THE MORE CHEERFUL BACKSTORIES! It’s not all bad: she has access to a library, has a loving aunt, and remains impertinent (her spirit is unbroken); the nobleman grows fond of her, is warm, and has abs-for-miles. (That’s ‘abs-for-kilometers’ for those of you outside the U.S.) I’m rooting for her to come into her own in Season 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NOVELTY of all of these Grimm Fairy Tales backstories in illustrated contexts impresses me. Also: perhaps we should send therapists to Korea.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are still having rain, somehow, as if the brief rainy season grew accustomed to making national news with its excesses, and is performing an encore. I am… tired. Late last week, I had the experience of nearly fainting for the first time ever after donating blood. I believe I deserved this for scoffing at … <\/p>\n

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