I’ve been having a terrible time at work lately–because everyone is on vacation, I’m having to do all sorts of jobs, learning to do them and then doing them in rushed time. One thing is combining data across four different spreadsheets that differ in name and are riddled with errors. It’s something I’ve done all day today and will do all day tomorrow. My writing, my work I love, has all been put off.
In an attempt at not freaking out, or to stave off the collapsing feeling inside my head, I’ve been listening to podcasts. Radio Lab on WNYC is a beautiful show that explores everyday things, talking to experts in layman’s terms, yakking with my favorite neurologist Oliver Saks (read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, read it), that sort of thing. And then, when people react to their show by creating something else of beauty, they share it. Like this:
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Beautiful moments.Each one so poignant.
My play (The Space between my head and my body) that was on last year at Edinburgh is loosely based on ‘The man who mistook his wife for a hat’. Funny that.