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the_rckSo my primary care doctor wants me to see an endocrinologist. She's sent in the referral and suggested that I call the managed care office at her clinic for help in scheduling. I'm am 85% sure that the managed care people will tell me that I need to call the clinic myself because it has happened before with referrals like this.
I think that the advice I've gotten about small, frequent meals actually doesn't work best for me. A bowl of spinach bean soup with a lot of added cheese and some triscuits or corn chips can keep my brain and body working and satisfied for about six hours (which is actually longer than I really want because it makes scheduling later meals difficult) even when I go out and do things. I'm trying to figure out if I can go smaller and get it down to four to five hours which would be better for my schedule, but calibration is an issue.
The thing is that, when I do crash right now, I can't see right, and I can't type right. My typing speed drops to a crawl, and I make a lot of typos that aren't my normal sort. It's more in the direction of typing 'halibut' when I'm thinking 'television' than a b for a v or even an f for a j. I touch type, and I rely on my fingers just knowing what to do for the words I want. I know that I'll have problems with their/there/they're because I'm not thinking the spelling when I think the word; that's a different thing. This is also not the part where I think I've typed a word but have dropped it completely.
Cordelia's school had their performing and visuals arts student awards last night. All choir students were 'expected' to attend. Scott had PT that overlapped when Cordelia needed to leave, so she traded a ride there with a friend for Scott giving the friend a ride home after.
My sinuses are staging a revolt. I'm pretty sure that it's because we had the windows open for three days. I've taken sudafed, closed the windows as well as I can, and set the AC fan going so that the air coming in goes through that filter. It's still cool enough outside that I'd love to have open windows, but the itchy burn is so not worth it. I'm going to see about getting the trash and recycling out and then use my neti pot (I don't use it regularly, just keep it for times like this).
I've broken 90K words on the Sky High AU of Doom. I've got five distinct sub-arcs in the series. Three of them are absolutely chaptered fics. The other two, I'm less sure about. The one I'm currently writing could work either way, I think.
The middle arc, though, is a mess from that perspective. There isn't a consistent thematic throughline or plotline. Some pieces are much longer than others and will work better subdivided, but I'd like to have the parts feel better balanced. I don't want four 2K chapters and 2 7K chapters. I also don't want to jam together things that happen years apart, even if they're in the same POV and relatively short. I've got things happening in between from other POV. But then there are these three things that could be split so that things are more even but that both go in chronological sequence and are from one POV.
I will probably try to keep the third set as a chaptered story just to cut down on the mess. It's 36K words in eight pieces, and I don't know that any of them make sense without reference to earlier parts of the series as a whole. Five chaptered fics is much less sprawling in terms of how it looks than twenty six fics in a series all dumped on AO3 at once or even (given that this is a small fandom) posted over a period of days or weeks.
I think that the advice I've gotten about small, frequent meals actually doesn't work best for me. A bowl of spinach bean soup with a lot of added cheese and some triscuits or corn chips can keep my brain and body working and satisfied for about six hours (which is actually longer than I really want because it makes scheduling later meals difficult) even when I go out and do things. I'm trying to figure out if I can go smaller and get it down to four to five hours which would be better for my schedule, but calibration is an issue.
The thing is that, when I do crash right now, I can't see right, and I can't type right. My typing speed drops to a crawl, and I make a lot of typos that aren't my normal sort. It's more in the direction of typing 'halibut' when I'm thinking 'television' than a b for a v or even an f for a j. I touch type, and I rely on my fingers just knowing what to do for the words I want. I know that I'll have problems with their/there/they're because I'm not thinking the spelling when I think the word; that's a different thing. This is also not the part where I think I've typed a word but have dropped it completely.
Cordelia's school had their performing and visuals arts student awards last night. All choir students were 'expected' to attend. Scott had PT that overlapped when Cordelia needed to leave, so she traded a ride there with a friend for Scott giving the friend a ride home after.
My sinuses are staging a revolt. I'm pretty sure that it's because we had the windows open for three days. I've taken sudafed, closed the windows as well as I can, and set the AC fan going so that the air coming in goes through that filter. It's still cool enough outside that I'd love to have open windows, but the itchy burn is so not worth it. I'm going to see about getting the trash and recycling out and then use my neti pot (I don't use it regularly, just keep it for times like this).
I've broken 90K words on the Sky High AU of Doom. I've got five distinct sub-arcs in the series. Three of them are absolutely chaptered fics. The other two, I'm less sure about. The one I'm currently writing could work either way, I think.
The middle arc, though, is a mess from that perspective. There isn't a consistent thematic throughline or plotline. Some pieces are much longer than others and will work better subdivided, but I'd like to have the parts feel better balanced. I don't want four 2K chapters and 2 7K chapters. I also don't want to jam together things that happen years apart, even if they're in the same POV and relatively short. I've got things happening in between from other POV. But then there are these three things that could be split so that things are more even but that both go in chronological sequence and are from one POV.
I will probably try to keep the third set as a chaptered story just to cut down on the mess. It's 36K words in eight pieces, and I don't know that any of them make sense without reference to earlier parts of the series as a whole. Five chaptered fics is much less sprawling in terms of how it looks than twenty six fics in a series all dumped on AO3 at once or even (given that this is a small fandom) posted over a period of days or weeks.
