An interregnum and a slice

It's been a little while between posts but fear not. As per my previous posts (hehe) I've been on leave from work and preoccupied with bulk cinemagoing.

I'm only one-and-a-bit weeks into my three weeks off and it already feels like a huge mental break. Going to see an unreasonable number of movies coupled with a switch to night owl mode seems to have done that. I recommend it.

So this is more of a slice of life post today. What else has been going on?

The Fantastic Film Festival has been excellent. Most movies I have loved for one reason or another and a few I have really hated. There really hasn't been much in between, which I see as a good thing.

It's also been fun seeing who else is posting reviews on Letterboxd and having fun speculating who they might be. Some of them reveal themselves before you even see their Letterboxd activity, others are harder to spot. This makes for some good people-watching while turning up again and again to the same cinema.

That cinema would be Lido in Hawthorn which means lots of cross-city trains getting to and from. And actually far fewer rail replacement buses than I was expecting, because the disruption information out there is opaque and makes things sound worse than they really are.

I have been trying out an online physiotherapy service that my super fund offers for free. Yet another reason not to bother with private health insurance. The consults have been partly for guidance because I don't really know what I'm doing at the gym, and partly because I have low-level leg and hip problems that never go away.

The physio has given me four gym sessions to follow which have been great so far. She has also got me doing full foam roller routines. I am learning that I really need to be comprehensive about exercise and recovery rather than just focusing on the bits that seems out of whack, or waiting until something is wrong before doing something. It's all very Them Bones (not the Alice in Chains one).

We have also used this time off to talk to the vet about Lottie the dog's swollen foot. It blew up a few weeks ago, and while it's not bothering her much it isn't getting better. We're taking her in again tomorrow so she can be sedated and the vet can take a biopsy. Fingers are crossed for something innocuous, but given her age (14 years) and the nature of the swelling (it doesn't appear to be a foreign body and/or infection) we are bracing ourselves.

But at the moment Lottie is doing fine and enjoying weird midnight walks with us after we get home from the movies each night.