So everyone is out at the moment, I'm getting used to the detox diet, although really missing olive oil at the moment, but the worst of it appears to be over, I no longer feel like someone is passing hot steel through my guts, it may be my imagination but I think I'm even starting to look a little better.
So with the diet on its way, and it'll take all the time it takes, I need to work on altering my opinions, the beginning of this plan is the Terry Goodkind series the Sword of Truth, I'm trying to read them without my usual cynicism, it's difficult though, the blinding personal devotion is finally beginning to make sense to me, but so many of the logic leaps are warped, and the characters are desperately shallow, but they're his favourite books, I can do this, the other problem is socialism, I was brought up with a socialist mother who used my curled and be-dimpled self as a tiny red flag for years, naturaly I grew up politically conservative, and very anti-union, he's from Nottingham, his dad drove a bus during the miners' strike and he believes in the power of the union, he appears to be mostly liberal, although has kept his cards pretty close to his chest on that count, I find it hard not argue with him, about politics, his view is so limited, but I'm sure I can learn, my personal political beliefs appear to be remenants of teenage rebellion anyway.