opportunistic infection, etc.

[ritaxis]

So now I'm home with a bacterial complication. I slept all day yesterday except when I went out to get the antibiotic. Doctor says I'm contagious until I've had the antibiotic for three days, which is tomorrow.

So what am I doing with this time? Surfing You tube, off course. I started off with a link from Making Light to Carmina Slovenica doing World War Two songs, and then surfed around their other work, and then from there -- well, let's just say I went through the Resian folk songs and the Istrian dances and now it's polkas from some place in Serbia. As far as I can figure there's these four guys, playing fiddle, accordion, bass fiddle, and guitar, and then whoever they hook up with. One song had a hammer dulcimer on it.

I'm better today than yesterday, so I owe the dog a walk and I think I'll try to catch up the drummer boy material with the stuff I've been writing in pencil and in myu head since the computer was down. It's quite a lot. I had gotten the protagonist born, and his sister and doomed brother born and christened and up to their first birthday, and laid the foundation for what comes next, which is not pretty but necessary.

The story has a high body count before it gets going. I don't know how I'm going to handle the part that's actually in the war, though.

Naturally, when I last went shopping I thought I was getting better, so I got food that needs cooking. I ate the cottage cheese with oranges and raisins, and I took last weekend's root veggies salad and dumped it with some other veggies into a tall can of chicken broth, and I ate that. And now -- I have another can of chicken broth and I have some chard and onions and chiles, so I think I'll make that later. What I want though -- I want ice cream. No I don't. What do I want? Sonmething with the emotional content of ice cream, but not sweet and cold. . . oh, yes, chicken soup. Okay. I'm already doing that.

edit: fixed the Slovenian link, and here's a link to one of the Serbian polkas. At least I think these guys are Serbian. This piece appears to bear the name of a Serbian place, anyway.

Comments

[anghara.livejournal.com]

*POLKAS*? From Serbia? er, huh?

And you do realise that what looks like a link in your post ISN'T and now I'll have to go search for the damned thing just so I can either be GENUINELY astonished to find polkas that come from Serbia or to debunk the claim....

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I have fixed the link and provided two links to the Serbian guys.

You do know that a polka is just a fast dance in 3/4 rhythm, right, and there are polkas from everywhere?

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Sure. But if you're talking FOLK MUSIC then we have a small problem with the idea because traditional folk music from Serbia doesn't tend to BE in that meter.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Folk music is what folks play, Alma . . .

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Can't Europeans even culturally appropriate from each other now?

[anghara.livejournal.com]

With my blessing. Appropriate away. It's just that I know the folk music from Serbia and it isn't traditionally in polka time...