it’s not lupus
Jul. 19th, 2010 03:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
langwidereI haven’t been around much because:
I have an infection in my lower left molar, and I’ve been on antibiotics and Vicodin for the better part of two weeks. The Vicodin mostly made me sleep a lot, and have vague hallucinations — like, at one point I thought I had birds in my ears, and I put giant salad-tossing forks in the same drawer with the dessert forks for some reason (maybe I really wanted to eat a whole lot of pie), and when I tried to translate I coined humorous new words: "when eating a meal" = "wheating a meal"; "in or at" = "ionor"; "an adjective" = "ad andjective"; etc. — but I didn’t get even one iota more brilliant, so I am suing Hugh Laurie for false advertisement (and also possibly alienation of affection, because House is now terrible).
I will have the tooth removed on August 6th, along with three wisdom teeth the dentist advised me would one day "give me trouble." (Perhaps they will join a crappy rural gang and begin hanging out on street corners smoking and terrorizing the elderly? Or get involved in an interstate check-kiting scheme? Hard to say for sure.)
Then, late last week, my deeply-adored older cat had a terrible, life-threatening asthma attack. I didn’t even know she had asthma :[
She is taking medicine temporarily, and will likely need a cat inhaler (who knew?) in the future, but she will be fine.
So, everything is basically okay, except I am almost three weeks behind my translating schedule and I will have to put off the manga site for yet another monthYAY!. I also think that, after having made you wait for so long, I owe everybody some heinously amazing translations. 頑張る!!
Also I made all-new layouts for every one of my sites! When I can think clearly enough to code, I’ll put them up. Or, maybe not — I made them while I was high, so they might be awful and consist only of one-eyed happy faces.
But I’ll be out of commission for another couple of weeks. You can always e-mail me, of course, and I will be lurking around your various blogs when I’m awake(ish).
Which is, of course, a cue for the world to get a million times more interesting. Awesome stuff always happens when I’m offline. I assume that between now and the second week of August:
# Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Rickman will announce that they have fallen desperately in love with one another and are planning to travel to the Netherlands to get married properly aboard a replica Viking ship. In their Harry Potter costumes. Ian McKellen will be specially-ordained to officiate — dressed as Gandalf, naturally.
# It will transpire that the prime minister of Japan is secretly a robot.
# A British person named Alisdhair Soddington-Wankley will break an impressive new sports record.
# We will find out that the BP corporation has actually been leaking barbecue sauce, and not oil, into the Gulf of Mexico for the last three months. Everyone will have a good laugh.
# Those stupid bastards will actually finally discover the Higgs boson.
# Someone will invent a pill that cures heart disease completely, but leaves the patient with a lifelong, insatiable craving for pot pie.
Looking forward to it, right? See you then. ♥
I have an infection in my lower left molar, and I’ve been on antibiotics and Vicodin for the better part of two weeks. The Vicodin mostly made me sleep a lot, and have vague hallucinations — like, at one point I thought I had birds in my ears, and I put giant salad-tossing forks in the same drawer with the dessert forks for some reason (maybe I really wanted to eat a whole lot of pie), and when I tried to translate I coined humorous new words: "when eating a meal" = "wheating a meal"; "in or at" = "ionor"; "an adjective" = "ad andjective"; etc. — but I didn’t get even one iota more brilliant, so I am suing Hugh Laurie for false advertisement (and also possibly alienation of affection, because House is now terrible).
I will have the tooth removed on August 6th, along with three wisdom teeth the dentist advised me would one day "give me trouble." (Perhaps they will join a crappy rural gang and begin hanging out on street corners smoking and terrorizing the elderly? Or get involved in an interstate check-kiting scheme? Hard to say for sure.)
Then, late last week, my deeply-adored older cat had a terrible, life-threatening asthma attack. I didn’t even know she had asthma :[
She is taking medicine temporarily, and will likely need a cat inhaler (who knew?) in the future, but she will be fine.
So, everything is basically okay, except I am almost three weeks behind my translating schedule and I will have to put off the manga site for yet another month
Also I made all-new layouts for every one of my sites! When I can think clearly enough to code, I’ll put them up. Or, maybe not — I made them while I was high, so they might be awful and consist only of one-eyed happy faces.
But I’ll be out of commission for another couple of weeks. You can always e-mail me, of course, and I will be lurking around your various blogs when I’m awake(ish).
Which is, of course, a cue for the world to get a million times more interesting. Awesome stuff always happens when I’m offline. I assume that between now and the second week of August:
# Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Rickman will announce that they have fallen desperately in love with one another and are planning to travel to the Netherlands to get married properly aboard a replica Viking ship. In their Harry Potter costumes. Ian McKellen will be specially-ordained to officiate — dressed as Gandalf, naturally.
# It will transpire that the prime minister of Japan is secretly a robot.
# A British person named Alisdhair Soddington-Wankley will break an impressive new sports record.
# We will find out that the BP corporation has actually been leaking barbecue sauce, and not oil, into the Gulf of Mexico for the last three months. Everyone will have a good laugh.
# Those stupid bastards will actually finally discover the Higgs boson.
# Someone will invent a pill that cures heart disease completely, but leaves the patient with a lifelong, insatiable craving for pot pie.
Looking forward to it, right? See you then. ♥
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Date: 2010-07-19 05:15 pm (UTC)-n
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Date: 2010-07-21 09:56 am (UTC)Yeah, I had to take a pile of them, although I’m down to ½ and only when I’m going to bed, now. The hallucinations have tapered off completely (they weren’t proper hallucinations, anyway; I didn’t become convinced I was Jesus or anything, I just felt wobbly and couldn’t think straight), although I’m still intermittently super-sleepy.
The good news from the dentist: At least I didn’t have any cavities!! HAHAHA?
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Date: 2010-07-19 09:03 pm (UTC)Your cat is adorable. I'm glad she's ok. Although, I have to admit, I spent at least 40 minutes trying to figure out how a cat inhaler would work. I mean, for a start, they don't have hands. And then, how do you get your cat to inhale on cue? (I'm sure there's something I'm missing here.)
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Date: 2010-07-21 10:01 am (UTC)Well, a cat inhaler is like a mask that you strap onto the cat, and then I dispense the breathing medicine in it and afterwards remove the whole shebang. Which doesn’t sound too fun, admittedly, but will probably be better than trying to stuff pills down her throat. (Cattey is very, very bitchy and extremely high-strung, and she has a terrible attitude problem. I was barely able to tame her when she was a kitten, and she still despises most human interaction. And she hates pills. SHE HATES THEM. And she has very sharp claws. And she is feeling much better now. Ow.)
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Date: 2010-07-21 05:57 pm (UTC)(btw, did I ever say thank you? If not, then thank you!!)
Also, if I use it again, it makes it look like my icon is propositioning your icon for anal sex :DD BRB WRITING FANFIC
Re inhalers:
Maybe your cat will get to like it? A quick google search brings up this picture:
http://www.pawnation.com/2009/08/20/what-you-need-to-know-about-feline-asthma/
Look at that cat. He's absolutely loving it! He's like, 'Yo, sup, I'm just chillin wid my inhaler and my hos'.
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Date: 2010-07-22 02:28 pm (UTC)The icon! Is from! An awesome webcomic! I think you and yours would find it hilarious if you don't already know it.
Hark! A Vagrant is possibly the best comic I've ever read. Especially if you're a huge nerd like me.
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Date: 2010-07-22 05:41 pm (UTC)But you're right. It was heavily inspired by Hark! A Vagrant, which I love like burning because it is awesome and hilarious and awesome!
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Date: 2010-07-23 03:21 pm (UTC)I still have that interview!
This is my favorite comic.
Janine already sourced the icon, but I can see the resemblance.
Nice to talk to you again :]
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Date: 2010-07-26 12:34 pm (UTC)That one is also my favorite! I laugh so hard whenever I read that, and also anything she does about Canada (especially the one she did in honor of the Olympics opening ceremony). Living in Canada nowadays brings a new appreciation to things.
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Date: 2010-07-23 03:32 pm (UTC)OLOLLOLOLLOLOLLOOOLLL OK I WANT TO READ IT
Actually, my cat just got her inhaler and it all went over fairly well. She obviously didn’t enjoy it as much as the cat in that photo, who has evidently turned this into a sort of lifestyle, but it was over fairly quickly and I’m told flesh wounds start healing in a matter of days. No, really, it helped her very much and was far less traumatic than trying to shove a pill down her throat. Plus one the inhaler.
…Incidentally, the cat is on exactly the same asthma medicine that I take. I mean: The very same one. The only difference is she takes one puff and I take four. And her diffuser is made of higher-grade plastic :[
(Eeeheeheehee Snape icon!)
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
Date: 2010-07-25 06:13 pm (UTC)"Mr Stratos," said the Queen, with a roll of the hips that made Lockon scrabble at the table top, "I hope you are not complaining."
"Ah!" said Lockon again. "It's not that, your majesty."
"Are you sure?" asked the Queen. "Because it looks to me like you're about to complain. Heaven forbid I am too large for you, Mr Stratos."
"Um, no," said Lockon shakily, resting his forehead against the dark wood, "I'm uh..." he shuddered as the Queen thrust again, "I'm used to it your majesty."
"Good!" bellowed the Queen, emphasising the word with a slap to Lockon's left buttock. "Then there's no problem!"
"It's just..." Lockon licked his lips.
The Queen inhaled loudly. "Just what, Mr Stratos?"
Lockon made a desperate sort of a noise. "It's just that I thought our friend might be feeling ignored. He... ah! He looks a little unhappy."
There followed a terrible silence, filled only by the sound of the Queen's heavy breathing and the slap of flesh on flesh.
"Mr Snape," said the Queen.
"I'm cold," said Snape sadly, "and this leather is beginning to chafe something..."
"Be a man, Mr Snape!" barked the Queen. "You do know how to be a man, don't you?"
"...Yes, your majesty."
"Good," said the Queen, and the fornication continued.
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Date: 2010-09-18 08:18 pm (UTC)Also it seems weirdly plausible.
And now I am going to go creeping off into the night, if you don’t mind.
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Date: 2010-07-19 09:40 pm (UTC)I hope the tooth-removal goes well. Or... as well as one can expect. Without any hiccups. Always a good excuse to eat ice-cream, right?
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Date: 2010-07-21 10:06 am (UTC)WELL IF I WASN’T LACTOSE-INTOLERANT, IT WOULD BE. [*CRIES*]
Thank you, also. I’m pretty sure Cattey will be fine (she’s already basically back to normal, so from now on it’s just a matter of avoiding her triggers and managing the condition), and the dentist is going to knock me out, so I don’t think I can ask for anything more. BUT SOME ICE CREAM WOULD BE NICE :[
♥
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Date: 2010-07-21 03:43 pm (UTC)They usually contain some kind of sugar, though. Probably "evaporated cane juice."
OR, assuming you can eat fruit: peel and freeze a few very ripe bananas, and then mash/blend them together with small amounts of nondairy milk (I like almond or hempmilk, soymilk works fine) and coconut oil or peanut butter or whatever type of fat sounds good. It looks and tastes like soft-serve.
(If you have an ice-cream maker, you can actually blend all ingredients together unfrozen and then use that.)
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Date: 2010-07-23 03:43 pm (UTC)That sounds like a very promising recipe, though! I have almond milk, almond butter, and coconut oil, so I’ll try two batches — maybe a chai-tea flavored version with a little flaked coconut in the coconut oil, and a banana/almond/smashed cherry version with the almond butter. Actually, that sounds really good! And I think I might have an ice-cream maker around here someplace, so I can just stir it all together and then freeze it in glass jars.
(I hardly ever eat sugar in anything other than fruit, so I’m sure a few cups of pseudo-ice-cream won’t hurt me too much. I also subscribe to the old-lady notion that sugar helps you heal, so I’ll probably also have the placebo effect going for me.)
YUM. THANK YOU FOR THE SUGGESTION!!
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Date: 2010-07-23 05:37 pm (UTC)I get headaches after eating too much (processed) sugar, but I rarely have the same reaction with fruit. So I tend to think that fructose/etc., when eaten in actual fruit, must have a more desirable effect. At least for me.
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Date: 2010-08-14 07:20 pm (UTC)But you're not here!?!?!?!?!!
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Date: 2010-09-18 08:21 pm (UTC)