Thursday

Shams woke me up, I was sleeping. I changed the alarm yesterday when he said he'd be late, and didn't set it back. He woke me up anyway, and we chatted some. He's excited to begin teaching English, he's going to have 2 classes. I tried to pass on my teacher wisdoms. 

We only meditated 30 minutes. He used to insist on 60, then he's been down to 40 lately, and I was surprised he said 30 today.

I noticed I'm sick in my meditation, Theradithi has passed on what she had. Sore throat, headache. Anandi said she was sick too, has a runny nose, which I don't have, yet. 

Watched all the Harry Potter movies recently. Feels like a primer for dark times. Such a plea for tolerance of others, weird she became insistent about sex and not gender, I think she feels threatened as a woman and men becoming women feels threatening to her. Of course those people felt like they were women all along, so weird to see someone you like for their empathetic art, go unempathetic. I'm sure she feels she's defending something important. I'm not convinced she's as bad as she's made out to be, and I think if she wasn't rich and powerful nobody would care what she said, plenty of anti-trans people about. 

First two movies are about coping with school. 3rd one is the best. Gets darker and darker, the three friends fight more, as it goes along and it's quite dark, drab, struggle filled in the end. I love Luna. I also think the people being evil is well acted, so many great actors they ended up getting. Well done.

Fantastic Beasts isn't quite a good, seems the anti-trans stuff affected her quality, but I'll watch what I can of those too. 

I had a nice Christmas, love being with Theradithi and Anandi (my Buddhist names for them), even if I got sick from the visit.