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I need to remember that, when my sinuses start freaking out, naproxen works more reliably than any allergy medication. A few times a year, I'll get an attack where I sneeze and sneeze and my nose runs. My previous approach was just to endure it until I dehydrated enough for it to stop. Neither antihistamines nor decongestants ever did anything for it.

In the last three months, however, I've stopped two attacks dead by taking naproxen. The first time, I thought it might be coincidence, but having done it deliberately yesterday, I think it might be a viable strategy.

I've been looking at diagrams of knee anatomy in an effort to figure out what's hurting in my left knee, and I'm running into the problem that the diagrams mostly show only one knee but don't identify whether it's left or right even though the anatomy for a single knee doesn't appear to be entirely symmetrical. I'm trying to figure out what's in between 3 and 8 o'clock on my left knee (with most of the issues between 3 and 5 o'clock) that would shriek with pain when I kneel but be fine when I stand and when I walk.

I've been having the knee issues for the better part of a month, and I'd like to figure out a strategy for improvement.

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Title: Feel Time Go Through Me
Fandom: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Rating: G
Length: 2135 words (chapter 2 has multiple images and no story elements)
Characters/Pairings: Chiba Mamoru, Tsukino Chibiusa, Tsukino Usagi
Tags: Tarot Reading, Family Bonding, Mild Angst, Background Chiba Mamoru/Tsukino Usagi

Notes: Written for Fic in a Box 2020. I did the tarot reading first and then wrote a story around it.

Summary: "Ugh. Why do I have to be the page?" Usagi whined.

Mamoru knew she was mostly teasing, so he did his best to conceal his twitch. Neither Usagi nor Chibiusa were looking at him, so he was pretty sure neither of them noticed.

Chibiusa squared the deck of cards in her hand then stuck out her tongue at Usagi. "Because you're not the Queen!"

Story on AO3.



Title: Only Open at Midnight
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: T
Length: 2080 words (chapter 2 has multiple images and no story elements)
Characters/Pairings: Buffy Summers, Illyria
Tags: Tarot Reading, Prophetic Dreams, Dream Communication, Wibbley-Wobbley Timey Wimey

Notes: Written for Fic in a Box 2020. I did the tarot reading first and then wrote the story around it.

Summary: Buffy has never been sure what to make of Illyria. She's glad that they won't intersect, physically, very often, but they meet-- have always met-- in Slayer dreams more frequently.

"I'm not even in your universe yet," Illyria says, riffling through a deck of cards. She frowns at what she sees. "Not when you are, that is. You've only just met Angel."

Buffy frowns. She remembers years of knowing Angel.

Story on AO3.



Title: Becoming Our Own Ghosts
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Rating: T
Length: 12165 words
Characters/Pairings: Fujimiya Aya "Ran", Hidaka Ken, Kudoh Yohji, Tsukiyono Omi, Maki. Heading for Aya/Ken but only showing the first glimmerings.
Tags: Ghosts, Interstitial Scenes, Mostly Canon Compliant, References to Canonical Deaths, Slow Romance, Becoming a Team

Notes: Written for Fic in a Box 2020. This was my primary assignment.

Summary: "Think it's cold enough for hazard pay?" Ken asked because he didn't want to think about what pain Aya might be hiding.

Aya made a sound Ken interpreted as 'we can only hope.' Aya was always very concerned about getting paid properly and promptly.

Ken had no idea what Aya was doing with that money. Their rooms were comped, so it wasn't as if he was paying Tokyo rent.

Maybe Aya was buying diamonds or some such shit. Portable wealth that would harder to track than investments.

Omi had to know where Aya's money went, but asking would be cheating; Ken needed to figure it out himself.

Story on AO3.