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Appetite slightly returning, annoyingly and I had a proper lunch of some soup. Luckily I should lose my appetite again whenever I end up getting the full treatment, though I am (again) really struggling to get in touch with anyone to work out when that will be.
As a self-employed person this is doubly frustrating as no one is giving me sick pay and I can't really put in much in the way of work as I don't know when I will be free and well enough to do it.
Has my two shots of chemo given me some form of mini cure? Could I put the treatment off until after Edinburgh? I have no one to really ask about it.
I was feeling perkier today and thought I'd see how I got on with a Newsround. As I suspected, being slightly out of it meant that the improvisation was looser and more impressive, with me having no idea where a lot of it was coming from. But Ally came up with a war time song that I hope the BBC will consider using to replace "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler?" in all episodes of Dad's Army.
Thanks to everyone who has bought one so far.
I was a bit tired after this (and to be fair am still sleeping very badly), but I know that I need to pace myself.
Tonight the only entertainment that didn't make me feel queasy at the prospect of it was Timecop starring Jean Claude Van Damme. I haven't seen this one for a while, but it combines my interests of time travel and kicking, so I thought I'd have a look and see if it still stood up.
To be honest I'd rather have had a lot more time travel stuff and less pretend fights, because it concentrates much more on the latter and doesn't really concern itself much with the former. You realise when you so something weird like only watch Timecop and clips of Xanadu that dancing and movie fighting are basically the same thing. Choreographed movement, just men need it to involve a bit of pain or blood lest anyone thinks their love of movement is effeminate. If anything Van Damme stuff is more camp and sexual than Newton-John's.
Butw hat's the fun in watching a fight that is all worked out beforehand? At least Xanadu has songs in it.
If they actually did genuine improvised fights with real weapons that anyone could win then I'd be up for that. And it might be fun to see entirely improvised dance routines. It couldn't be any weirder than what happens in Xanadu.
The time travel stuff in Timecop is all over the place and barely attempts to make any kind of logical sense, but I think there might be a drama in (spoiler alert) how Van Damme copes with finally returning to a present day where his wife and 9 year old child live, but in which he has totally different memories of the previous decade.
It must be nice for him to realise he's saved the life of his unborn son, but to suddenly meet him at 9 and for that boy to have memories of him that he himself does not have must be psychologically bewildering.
Same in Back to the Future of course. Marty returns to an improved family having only experienced his teenage years with the crappy version. Who knows what he's missed or how he copes with his past being different to these almost entirely different people who now live in his house (lucky they didn't move in the alternate reality too, I guess).
In Timecop don't fully understand how Van Damme's destroyed house is suddenly OK again in the future (may have been a rebuild) but some things reset in spite of coming from the final version of that reality. It's not really a thread you want to tug on in this film unless you want it all to shatter in front of your eyes.
And it's weird how a man who works in time travel never gets used to his present being different every time he returns (having killed loads of people and blown up buildings). A Timecop movie where a much less bull in a china shop cop has to go back and stop crimes, whilst also not affecting the time line AT ALL, would be good. There would have to be no kicking in it. Quite the opposite.
Plus, as always the consequences of changing a couple of things in 1929 would have unimaginable consequences on 2004. The world would be populated with almost entirely different humans. Van Damme would return to find he had never existed and thus had never gone back in the first place, and be trapped forever. Come on. We all want to see that.
