car and food

[tielan]

Car just required a change of battery, although there was a terrible moment with the alternator - the battery replacement guy thought it might be overcharging the battery, but it looked like it was just doing the old one that needed replacement.

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I've been struggling to write this urban fantasy - I think I'm getting too bogged down in the details. Also, the first scene is actually out in a country area, so not really the gritty darkness of city life... The heroine is fighting elves, though, so I guess that's something...

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Day 7 of the Ration Challenge: breakfast was lentil patties (ordinary), lunch was fried rice (okay) and flatbread (freaking amazing) and dinner will be falafels and probably more fried rice.

A neighbour said I'd lost weight when she walked by yesterday. Nice, but I didn't bother weighing myself before the challenge - I wasn't going to make it important.

I guess, like thinking about the American concentration camps at the border, it's at once both difficult and daunting to consider that this is someone's life, day after day, week after week, month after month. And while there's hope for the children in detention down on the US-Mexico border, there's very little for the refugees in the refugee camps.

So, in spite of my desire for something nice and tasty; there's also a hint of bittersweet to returning to my usual diet.

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A few links today:

SBS Australia: Portraits of refugee children

The Guardian: How The Taste Of Home Sustained My Refugee Parents

The Atlantic: Logical Conclusions to the mystery of MH370

Medium: Half of Americans Are Effectively Poor