bedlamsbard | a miscellaney

Today I tried to go off black tea and lasted about four hours before I got what I can only assume was a caffeine-withdrawal headache. (I'd switched to green tea for the morning. Apparently, not the best idea.)

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Someday I will stop buying copies of books I already own, but it is not this day. Given the fact that I actually (a) own a copy of this book and (b) have a copy of it out from the university library, I probably shouldn't have bought it, but...oh well. Maybe I'll actually do the LotR reread I've been meaning to do for ages now. And someday I will tackle The Silmarillion.

Mostly I'm still patting myself on the back for not buying more copies of The Hobbit, which I already own TWO COPIES OF, and that's not counting the copies my dad owns. But these ones were different editions! (Uh, I wasn't going crazy in Waterstones, just Oxfam. So it wasn't completely crazy.)

...logic.

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Apparently this is the week I do fancy stuff with my hair. Yesterday I did this GOT-inspired style -- sort of; I ended up pulling it all into a regular three-strand braid at the end, rather than doing two and pinning them together or doing a four- or six- strand braid, which I'll try sometime. Today I did this, and I really wish I could take a picture of the back of my head because it looks so cool. It's actually been way more stable than I expected; I thought that I'd be shedding bobby pins all day (I wish I'd counted how many went in), but although some are loose, none have fallen out and the braids haven't dislodged. (Which is the worst, especially if you're not near a bathroom or something where you can stop and fix your hair without looking like a freak on the street.)

ETA: I just unpinned my hair, and the final bobby pin count was sixteen.

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So I poked around on Ravelry about last night in the carpal tunnel and RSI groups, and after determining that mostly that was probably a mistake -- I don't need to be that alarmed, even if I should be! -- I thought, what the hell, and decided to try ice dipping, where you basically fill a sink or a large bucket or whatever with cold water and ice and dip your afflicted limb in for 10-20 seconds every ten minutes or so for two hours. I will report back on whether it does anything or not. I figure it can't actually hurt. (I'm just running the cold water tap on the bathroom sink -- it gets pretty freaking cold -- because ha, I share a freezer with four other girls, I don't have room to freeze bottles of water to drop in my sink.)

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I think current events call for cute and funny Hobbit art, don't you?

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