So it is Autumn again? I have the feeling that this year lasted longer and longer. My september vibe was: exhausted. I just realized that we had every weather this month. At the beginning I was at a Travis concert, just here not far away from home. It was burning hot. I was melting in the venue. The band even apologized for this shitty venue without air conditioning. Other than that the concert was so nice, I was almost at the front stage and the band was so wholesome and lovely as always. I also visted a theater play which was horrible. It was not only bad but also very boring. But besides that it was nice to visit my home town Düsseldorf again. I also planned to go to a podcast live show but then there was an accident and my train didn’t run. I am still very sad that I missed the show…
Other than the this month was full of doctor’s appointments. Had a cancer scare which occupied my mind. No cancer but there was the possibility that I needed a small surgery to remove the thing. Well, fast forward, now it is gone. Worries for nothing. There was also another big thing appointment for which i waited a long time. I was nervous and dying, I am so grateful that a friend was there via text messages to calm me. In the end the appointment was very good. I am so glad that this is over, although now I have to do other stuff regarding this appointment. But it’s nothing urgent.
Other than that the month was full of migraines, insomnia and being on the verge of a breakdown because I was just so overloaded and tired of everything, especially of work things.
Gaming:
A bit of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, all the Clever games, some games of Root (on the computer and on the table, too) and a game of Wingspan. Not much, but nice games anyway.
Books:
Again a month with not so many books. I finished The Realm of the Elderlings Book 2. I still enjoy the series very much, but it is a rather slow read. Then I read Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow. It was ok, but nothing I will remember for long. Another book was Die Rassistin by Jana Scheerer which I found very weird due to it’s narrative style and I kind of regreted reading it because there wasn’t much in it.
Films:
4 films. My fav was Nine to Five with Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda. What a fun office comedy but still very sad because almost nothing changed since the 80s. I also liked All of Us Strangers though my expectations where higher from what I heard about this movie. Still a good story. I also liked Breaking Surface, a Swedish survival thriller. What I didn’t like was Poor Things, a Yorgos Lanthimos film. He makes weird films, yes, but this one tried to be feministic, I think, and failed to end more on the sexist side. And it was really boring.
TV Shows:
Currently I am into the Rings of Power which I enjoy very much. It makes me miss my tabletop rpg which was close to the Tolkien lore. (I really can’t warm up to Pathfinder/DnD stuff because it has not magical flavor since it is so overrun by magical beings, a whole humanoid zootopia world, and monsters)
I am also watching The Bear. The show is good but I don’t get the hype about it. We also finished Shogun. I didn’t understand the underlying historical events that much but nevertheless I enjoyed the show. We also finished Decameron which I didn’t like, it was boring and the humor not my kind. Again also hate-watching Emily in Paris Rome. I also finished The Perfect Couple which was again this kind of „rich people are crazy“-plot, I liked the show. But Nicole Kidman is always playing the same character? I also had run through Geek Girl, which was quite wholsome. And I finished Pørni, hope there will be another season soon, I really love that show. Last but not least we finished That 90s Show. I think the kids are annoying and that it is not that authentic considering the 90s (but it is okay to not include the homophobia and AIDS pandemic). But I like everything with Kitty and Red.