Couch 228--The Wellness Couch

If you like ginger and kombucha - try health-ade ginger lemon - it is very good and very gingery (the spicy way like jamaican ginger beer- not very sweet)

Variations of ginger tea kind of surprised me.
Ginger tea - Wikipedia
I like mine with milk even though I'm not fond of ginger tea precisely because of the strong ginger taste.

Today, in random therapy moments: Dr. T: "Wow, I had forgotten that Hagar the Horrible existed."

We had ended up on the topic of comics, and I was talking about ones I'd read in childhood and now. For a more recent one, Pearls Before Swine, he was like, "Oh, my son really likes that one, too." And he even showed me this book of his son's that was apparently the origin for the Addams Family. It was interesting. But he also suggested how reading comics can be a coping mechanism during anxiety.

I think reading anything, particularly fiction in any form, can be a coping mechanism - not just during a pandemic. I enjoy escaping into whatever world is in whatever novel I read. Granted, I don't read some of the violent sci-fi mockingbird stuff, but I think that people who do are also escaping into fantasy

That's a good point. I'm not a sci-fi or fantasy reader, but it would probably do me good to read some fiction at least. Preferably something in actual book form, instead of online.

I am a fan of the mystery genre. The cozy sort - not the psychological cloak and dagger sort

To expand, I think fiction in general can be an escape. Right now I’m listening to this role play adventure podcast. It’s great. Though I think things like TV are designed to be less thought intensive, so maybe not the best escape.

Ugh, cozy mysteries...and musicals...you are just a big softie at heart, aren’t you?

I am about to give a short story one last pass and then start sending it out tomorrow.

Good luck, ATAT! I hope it finds a home relatively quickly.

Interesting read. Then i went on to iced tea. Thanks, QM!

The t on tea, for you - uh us - millenial types.

No - I am a hard shell in and out. No softiness here

I hope so, too!

Softiness. Softieness. Softyness.

Eta - i think that person i harassed about the meaning of the word leap was an English teacher. Like an 80 year old retired beloved international english teacher. Go big or go home, i always say.

Does peanut butter taste good spread on shortbread? Asking for a friend.

I just found out that Tina Turner is still alive. Rollin' on the river.

Definitely. See also Nutella and Marmite spread together on crumpets or pikelets. Do you foreign Americans even know what those foodstuffs are? Or am I sounding even more drunk than I am?

Tonight is my very last shift at the hospital where I’ve worked for the last four years. I did my residency here, then stayed on as an attending for an extra year.

My main feeling is exhaustion because the night shift is so tiring. I also feel a sort of cognitive awareness that I am sad, or will be sad, but the real emotion is buried by the tired.

What an odd day today is.

Pikelets are like silver-dollar pancakes...do you know what those are?

For extra credit, please explain the difference between a) pancakes, b) hotcakes, and c) griddlecakes.

When Angela Lansbury dies, I will be inconsolable.

Pancakes or crepes or American pancakes?? Hotcakes and griddlecakes are easily explained of course: fictional food found in Harry Potter novels. But wait, what about the drop scone? The following surely will blow your mind - the Yorkshire pudding is traditionally eaten with jam in Yorkshire and, as if we need to complicate matters further, my Nan referred to them as batter puddings ... which brings us right back to pancakes. What a wild ride.

Hugs (if wanted), Chihiro. I can understand how the sadness might not hit you right now. How much longer do you have until you actually move?

Thanks, LT.

I’m moving in drips and drabs — my stuff is shipping out on Friday, but I’m not going to be in my new apartment until July 1st; I’ll be staying with my boyfriend for a bit and then my parents for a bit, and then working at my childhood summer camp for a week. It’s going to be a chaotic month!

Also for more variety, you have hoecakes (i bet this will be censored) and johnnycakes.

Apparently these are the same things. I learned something new today!

I just saw the perfect motto on Twitter for ex-hankster: “Capitals and apostrophes vary.”

Maybe it can be your new status.

I wouldn't think so - it sounds too rich and the peanut butter (unless a very very almost invisible
thin layer) would overwhelm the delicate deliciousness of the short bread.