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Cordelia has discovered that she likes ham lunchmeat. She particularly likes ham on graham crackers. I'm a little boggled by that, but they're her taste buds.

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I nominated my yuletide fandoms. I ran into a little trouble finding information about one of the fandoms I wanted to nominate, Condor Hero. There are multiple versions, and I've only seen one. I decided to trust Netflix and the IMDB about which version I saw. I felt shaky on Netflix because I'm pretty sure that the date on the sleeves was different from the date on the website. The IMDB is frustrating because almost none of the actors have photos up. Wikipedia has a huge article on the 2006 version but doesn't have even a stub for the 2001 version. The 2001 version also doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the article on the actor who supposedly starred. The difficulties of competing transliteration systems and varying names for the actors also play into this.

Of course, if I request Condor Hero fic, how likely am I to actually get it? I may have spent forty-five minutes researching something that will never matter again. Then again, the boxed set of the series is currently (relatively) cheap at DeepDiscountDVD. I've been eying it and telling myself that it's only a little more than a dollar per forty minute episode. I could buy it and offer to *write* it. Then again, that might be really, really stupid since the subtitles are crappy and my grasp of either Cantonese or Mandarin utterly non-existent.

I didn't actually check to be sure that Condor Hero's small enough before nominating it. An after-the-fact LJ check turned up no dedicated communities and only thirteen people listing it as an interest. I'm not finding any fic via Google, either.

I used my other nomination slots for Ayatsuri Sakon, Planet Ladder, Sky High, Babylon 5 and The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne. I'm sure that I'll request the first three. Sky High, as a movie, is my fallback fandom, the one that can probably match easily for a pinch hit if one's needed. People are sometimes willing to pinch hit for a fandom new to them if it's short and easy to get. Sky High qualifies on both counts.

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My prescription insurer has denied coverage for the anti-fatigue prescription the psychiatrist wrote me. She warned that that might happen since the medication is expensive and this is an off-label use for it. FDA approved uses are for narcolepsy, sleep apnea and shift change fatigue. I think the doctor also mentioned fatigue associated with chemotherapy as either a common use or an FDA approved use.

Scott and I are going to go out of pocket about $25 to get three tablets (I'll be quartering the first one and halving the other two) so that we can see how I respond to low doses. If I have awful side effects, there's no point in pursuing an appeal or going out of pocket or trying to make the prescription coverage through Scott's job pay instead of my coverage from the University. (While Scott's health insurance pays the primary coverage for me without complaint, the dental and prescription coverage have routinely denied that I'm eligible for primary coverage even though they're supposed to be primary.)

I'm torn now. I really hope that the Provigil helps, but I don't know if I want to pay a couple hundred plus dollars a month for a medication. I suppose it depends on if it makes me feel better and by how much. If it's just a little better, we can't afford it. If it's a lot, we'll have to consider carefully. Two hundred dollars is a lot when we start looking at the discretionary parts of our budget. We could certainly do it. It wouldn't be a lot of fun, but we could do it.

The psychiatrist did say that, if the test run of Provigil helps my fatigue, we'll have a better case for an appeal and also might consider some other stimulant, something like Ritalin. She isn't enthusiastic about Ritalin because of the 'harsh' side effects, but it's a lot cheaper.

Of course, if the Provigil doesn't help, this is all moot. I just would like something to help.