Mattie Ross

 It's a chilly (54F), gray day. There's a flash flood warning in effect until tomorrow, but so far we've only gotten a bit of drizzly rain. I'm okay if it stays this way, though I would also like more rain.

I napped a bit throughout the night, but now I'm up (it's just before noon) and can't get back to sleep. My sleep schedule is all screwy again. I did not do much reading last night--my right wrist was starting to complain about holding up a book after the hours and hours of reading I did over the last several days. (I finished the Alan Alda bio and another novel called The Hazel Wood, which was only okay, and started reading Stitches by Anne Lamott and the Miyazaki I mentioned last time.)

Instead of reading, I watched some youtube videos, including the full length, 1969 version of True Grit (which I have loved since I was a little girl and saw it on television). Youtube has it with ads, but since I have adblock on my computer, I don't see the ads. The remake is fine, the novel by Charles Portis (first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in 1968) is amazing, but the version that sits square in my heart is the 1969 one with Kim Darby as Mattie Ross and John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn. You can tell that the screenplay was written by a woman because the character of Mattie Ross doesn't pull any punches. (I don't think that the 2010 version (written and directed by the Coen brothers) has as complete a character in Mattie, though they have other fine movies with women at the center.  Joel Coen is is married to Frances McDormand, so, you know.)

I have the last 20 minutes or so of the movie to watch, so I'll probably do that this afternoon. Maybe after a nap.

Yesterday was a lab day. I had a blood draw in the morning and then had to go back in the afternoon. The results are mostly within normal limits, as they say, but I probably have a slight bit of anemia and my A1C is too high (both likely from all the simple carbs I've been eating since switching over to a vegan diet and a bland one at that to try to thwart whatever is going on in my gut). There are a couple of lab results that will take longer to get, though. So that's just part of the story.

I'm tired. My eyes are tired. I'm supposed to have therapy this afternoon, but I think I'm going to cancel. I just feel like sleeping. Even though I can't sleep.