Weekly Report: March 4th - March 10th 2024
The Week in Summary:
- After a call with the dental office on Monday, I was told that I should move towards the next stage in my recovery this week and reintroduce more solid foods (whilst still continuing to clean the extraction site). Over the week, I continued to have some inflammation in my jaw, a mild ear pain, and a tension headache, but it did gradually improve over the week. Additionally, a lot of my health anxiety started to ease up with that improvement.
- On Wednesday, I finally returned back to work and it was more hectic as we had a lot of sick folks on our team to cover for (we had a positive COVID-19 case). I learned and taught a new elementary school program about uncovering the layers of the earth to discover our distant past.
- From Thursday to Sunday, my love was off at a conference in another Canadian city, so I was on my own for a few days. I missed Taylor like crazy, but I managed to keep myself distracted enough. In the evenings, I played some games like the co-op horror Lethal Company and Crusader Kings III (a new legend/plague-themed DLC and update was released on Monday). Additionally, I started reading some new books, including The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram and Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present by Adeeb Khalid.
Recommendations:
- The Pleasures of Eating by Wendell Berry (Essay): An exploration of our contemporary relationship with food, specifically the general public’s disconnection from eating as an agricultural act.
- And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow by Weyes Blood (Album): Ethereal baroque-pop with angelic vocals and soothing lyrics. My go-to whenever I feel myself getting a bit too anxious, especially recently with my wisdom tooth extraction recovery.
- In Mongolia, a Killer Winter Is Ravaging Herds and a Way of Life by Zaya Delgerjargal (Article): About brutal winter conditions (aka dzud) in Mongolia and its impact on pastoral life, as well as the ties to the broader climate emergency. This stands in contrast to our experience on the Canadian Prairies this winter with our unseasonably mild temperatures and reduced snowfall.
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