A Most Unreliable Narrator Issue #98 So are the days of our lives
Work drama llama
Welcome to A Most Unreliable Narrator, the slice-of-life newsletter of GenXer around town, Lisa Rabey. I talk about anything and everything with a bit of swears. I’m glad you’re here.
Dear Internet,
I started typing, “Not really much to report this week” when I realized that in my own world, that is actually something to report. Forgive me.
(Before I begin, I have become obsessed with the Ukraine invasion, spending hours reading English Ukrainian newspapers, global newspapers, and Twitter. As Best Kate said, this is far too much to cope with our own mental health but I’m finding it difficult to turn away. So, I leave you with this: UK based Legacy of War Foundation has put together a reliable list of journalists on the ground, where to find information, as well as links to charities to donate to if you are interested. If you have a few bucks, please consider donating and amplifying verified content.)
Running update: PT remains top form in the last week with two PT appointments and my daily at homework. I was thinking of adding in walking on the treadmill this week but I have an exam in one class and I owe a paper in the other one so that may wait a week.
Things I Recently Wrote
If you read #97.5, you’ll recall I’ve ditched the We’ll Read Anything Once (Twice If We Like it) book review blog for a newsletter of the same name. I choose to not import this newsletter’s subscriber base over because I hate to be a bother so if you’re interested in snarky and sassy book reviews, I would be thrilled if you subscribed.
I have a few things come down the pipe for No Flying, No Tights but those reviews are later in the spring.
What I’m Reading
FINISH A FUCKING BOOK LISA BEFORE STARTING A NEW ONE.
The 7/12 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle An Agatha Christie-esque locked room mystery
Changeless Book #2 in the Parasol Protectorate series
Reputation Mean girls with Jane Austen thrown in
Bridgerton Volume 1 You’ve watched the series on Netflix, time to get steamy between the pages
Dissolution Lawyer turned sleuth in Tudor England
Intuitive Eating Eating should not be about weighing or calculating your food
The Historian A 700 page tomb of the retelling of Dracula
Fitness for Every Body Instagrammer Meg Boggs walks you through
that fitness is truly for every body
Wonderful Thing
Here are some of the tags I follow on IG to find my people:
Interesting Things (or things to buy)
This week I present you with tidbits I’ve learned in my Elizabethan class:
There were over a dozen different social classes and each class had its own specific clothing
Rabbits were not indigenous to England. They were brought over by the Romans, died out, and reintroduced by the Normans
If you wanted to make fast cash, you’d own a rabbit warren
In some cases, you didn’t need to have a priest to get married, you’d just say you were married
Years were not spoke of as “March 27, 1582” but rather “20 Elizabeth March 27.” “20 Elizabeth” signifies the year of Elizabeth’s reign
England’s first National Lottery failed as they only sold 10% of the 400,000 tickets available. The money was to raise funds to fix and build ports and Navy boats for an upcoming war
It takes about 5 hours to make a pair of gloves
Tanning gloves required a lot of urine (human and animal) as well as poo
Links to Read That Are Not (Terribly) Depressing
Russia invaded the Ukraine. Everything is depressing.
Get vaccinated and mask up! There is a pandemic going on.
lisa x
(Fuck fascists and Nazis!)
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