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Nov. 19th, 2016 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckScott had to work today, but he didn’t have to go in early. That last was good because Cordelia and her best friend needed rides to and from their weekly movie night (they could have gotten there by bus, but the buses don’t run late enough to get them home).
While Cordelia was out, Scott and I listened to a podcast and got annoyed because the podcasters repeatedly mixed up a couple of ST:TOS episodes. It was completely tangential to the topic of the podcast, and not so very many people have those episodes memorized any more, but Scott and his brother used to play a game to see which of them could name a ST:TOS episode the fastest when it started up on the screen. I think thirty seconds was the longest it ever took and they may have ended up adding things like naming the writer and the guest stars in order to make it more challenging. It wasn’t a major annoyance, more on the level of yelling, "No! Don’t do that!" at characters in a movie or TV show when they’re acting appropriately stupid.
Scott working means that I will likely take a cab to the Yuletide write-in. I keep thinking about taking the bus, but I’m not convinced that walking to the bus stop would be feasible. My Achille’s tendon isn’t hurting right this second, but I also haven’t walked very much so far today. The current plan is that, after the write-in, I will hang out at Espresso Royale and wait for Scott. He gets off work some time between 3:00 and 5:00 and has about a half hour drive to get back to Ann Arbor. If the timing works out, he will do the grocery shopping while I wait. There’s a Kroger in the same strip mall as the Espresso Royale.
I wrote a couple thousand words yesterday. Sadly, not one was for my Yuletide story. Also, what I wrote is very definitely chapter two of something I posted on AO3 as a one shot, and that kind of irritates me. I don’t think it’s separate enough to be another story in the arc. Bah.
Washing my hair with a different conditioner actually did clear up my night time coughing last night. I started coughing in the shower while I was fluffing my hair to help get the water all the way through before I washed it, and I rather thought that that was evidence that, yes, there was something on my hair that bothered me when my hair got close to my face.
Scott picked up the folic acid supplements I asked for, but when I talked to him on the phone and told him what I wanted, he heard 'boric acid' and was really puzzled. We managed to clear that up in about thirty seconds, but he’s still joking about it. (And isn’t boric acid used for rat poison? Or am I remembering something else?) I need to do a little research about when it would be best to take it. I take a multivitamin with lunch and then calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D with dinner.
(I used to take the multivitamin in the mornings, but I discovered that a multivitamin containing iron is, for me, a really bad combination with caffeine. It led to me losing my breakfast once or twice a week until I figured out what was going on. I have no clue what it is about that combination. At this point, I couldn’t take the multivitamin in the mornings anyway because that would put it in too close proximity to my 5 a.m. thyroid medication.)
I still haven’t managed to find that missing library CD. It’s due tomorrow, and I’m debating whether I should renew it again or just pay for it and hope I find it at a point when I can still get some money back. I’m kind of leaning toward paying for it simply because it’s the only copy the library has of that CD. Nobody has asked for it, to the best of my knowledge, but someone else might like to try it if they found it by browsing. If I pay for the dratted thing, the library will replace it. Then, if I find the missing copy and return it, they’ll have two copies. (I didn’t enjoy the CD, so I have no desire to keep it even if I don’t get my money back.)
I called my sister yesterday to let her know the results of my two genetic tests. I was mainly thinking that she’d been talking about trying to address PTSD issues from her car accident in May and that, if I have huge problems with SSRIs, it’s possible that she might, too. She told me that it actually looks like what is going on is that she has interstitial cystitis and that, every time she fastens her seatbelt, it presses in exactly the wrong spot, leading her to think she’s panicking which makes things worse. She’s very cranky about this because it will mean completely altering her diet at a point when she’s just starting to regain the weight she’s lost in the last year and a half.
While Cordelia was out, Scott and I listened to a podcast and got annoyed because the podcasters repeatedly mixed up a couple of ST:TOS episodes. It was completely tangential to the topic of the podcast, and not so very many people have those episodes memorized any more, but Scott and his brother used to play a game to see which of them could name a ST:TOS episode the fastest when it started up on the screen. I think thirty seconds was the longest it ever took and they may have ended up adding things like naming the writer and the guest stars in order to make it more challenging. It wasn’t a major annoyance, more on the level of yelling, "No! Don’t do that!" at characters in a movie or TV show when they’re acting appropriately stupid.
Scott working means that I will likely take a cab to the Yuletide write-in. I keep thinking about taking the bus, but I’m not convinced that walking to the bus stop would be feasible. My Achille’s tendon isn’t hurting right this second, but I also haven’t walked very much so far today. The current plan is that, after the write-in, I will hang out at Espresso Royale and wait for Scott. He gets off work some time between 3:00 and 5:00 and has about a half hour drive to get back to Ann Arbor. If the timing works out, he will do the grocery shopping while I wait. There’s a Kroger in the same strip mall as the Espresso Royale.
I wrote a couple thousand words yesterday. Sadly, not one was for my Yuletide story. Also, what I wrote is very definitely chapter two of something I posted on AO3 as a one shot, and that kind of irritates me. I don’t think it’s separate enough to be another story in the arc. Bah.
Washing my hair with a different conditioner actually did clear up my night time coughing last night. I started coughing in the shower while I was fluffing my hair to help get the water all the way through before I washed it, and I rather thought that that was evidence that, yes, there was something on my hair that bothered me when my hair got close to my face.
Scott picked up the folic acid supplements I asked for, but when I talked to him on the phone and told him what I wanted, he heard 'boric acid' and was really puzzled. We managed to clear that up in about thirty seconds, but he’s still joking about it. (And isn’t boric acid used for rat poison? Or am I remembering something else?) I need to do a little research about when it would be best to take it. I take a multivitamin with lunch and then calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D with dinner.
(I used to take the multivitamin in the mornings, but I discovered that a multivitamin containing iron is, for me, a really bad combination with caffeine. It led to me losing my breakfast once or twice a week until I figured out what was going on. I have no clue what it is about that combination. At this point, I couldn’t take the multivitamin in the mornings anyway because that would put it in too close proximity to my 5 a.m. thyroid medication.)
I still haven’t managed to find that missing library CD. It’s due tomorrow, and I’m debating whether I should renew it again or just pay for it and hope I find it at a point when I can still get some money back. I’m kind of leaning toward paying for it simply because it’s the only copy the library has of that CD. Nobody has asked for it, to the best of my knowledge, but someone else might like to try it if they found it by browsing. If I pay for the dratted thing, the library will replace it. Then, if I find the missing copy and return it, they’ll have two copies. (I didn’t enjoy the CD, so I have no desire to keep it even if I don’t get my money back.)
I called my sister yesterday to let her know the results of my two genetic tests. I was mainly thinking that she’d been talking about trying to address PTSD issues from her car accident in May and that, if I have huge problems with SSRIs, it’s possible that she might, too. She told me that it actually looks like what is going on is that she has interstitial cystitis and that, every time she fastens her seatbelt, it presses in exactly the wrong spot, leading her to think she’s panicking which makes things worse. She’s very cranky about this because it will mean completely altering her diet at a point when she’s just starting to regain the weight she’s lost in the last year and a half.
