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Today I got my covid booster shot. The policy is for cancer patients whose second shot is 6 months ago is eligible. So I had gone to get a flu shot last week but they had finished for the day and the pharmacist recommended getting the booster, so we booked an appointment. I still have to get my flu shot, as they were concerned that if I got a reaction they couldn't determine the cause. My arm was sore for about a minute- just long enough to register-and that was it. Jerry was attached to me for most of the day, and when I got back from my job, he hasn't left me alone. He jumped on my lap when I was on the phone with my family. and was obviously guarding me. It's silly, but it's real.

I'm struggling. Amazon Prime will be releasing a new series on November 19 based on a series of books that I really like. It was supposed to be a trilogy, then a 5- part series and ended up with 14 books and a "bestiary" that illustrates all the creatures created in the story. I'm glad that it's being made into a series, not a move, but I'm also concerned about how the adaptation will be done.. Will they do the lazy, easy choice and have almost endless wars between mammoth armies and a small band of our intrepid heroes, such as ruined The Hobbit? Will they be able to capture the "magic" that's described in the books? Which scenes will be cut out and which will be stretched out? Which characters get dropped? There are some of my questions as I ready myself for the 19. I'm a bit concerned that I'll hate the adaptation-what if they go the route of GOT and soak the tale in blood and gone? I'd like it if they did an adaptation that covered most of the key scenes without spending too long on gratuitous killings or extraneous sex scenes. (There were none of the latter; sex was implied, not shown.) I may be prudish, but it really wouldn't add to the existing story. So yes... I'm torn. I want to watch but I'm concerned that it will ruin my enjoyment of the books.

Yes, that's the first-world problem that's occupying my mind today. I'd make a lousy activist, because I can't stay fired up for long periods. It's one thing to sign a change.org petition and another to whip up a frenzy, and I'm not the frenzy-whupping type.  So I guess we'll wait and see what's unleashed. I may also reactivate, temporarily, my Apple TV subscription to watch 2 series, one of which is another adaptation of a series... you know the rest. I refuse to read reviews until after I watch some of the series so I'm largely unbiased. Definite first-world in me! I'll leave that here for tonight. Good night!