General life update
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moominmuppetI'm still really not feeling very social, so just a few updates.
* Kidlet's birthday at Fun-n-Stuff was a resounding success.
* Grafton gets home Thursday morning!
* Caleb is moving out mid-November.
* I have caught the office crud and am still a sniffling hacking mess.
* Tarma has a cyst on her ear; I'm dreading the vet bill Wednesday when I take her in.
* Chad and I have been powering through Buffy; his first time, my umpteenth. I'm having a fabulous time sharing it with him. Unfortunately, we've officially hit my least favorite season (5). Glory and Dawn irritate the hell out of me.
* I've been listening through Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, and House of Many Ways. Highly enjoyable.
* I'm finally working my new schedule, 8am-6:30pm M/T/Th/F. Generally really enjoying it so far; it's busier so the time goes faster, and it's getting me a lot more time with Chad. And I've been wanting a 4-day week for a long time.
* Most of my health stuff has self-resolved in the course of the obscene wait for appointments. Physically I'm doing surprisingly well at the moment, overall. Minor fibro crap, but no major disabling hassles in the past few weeks.
* Finally got in to see Neurology, a month after the unending migraine finally ended. Now have an appt with the chronic migraine clinic (since even my usual migraines qualify me for that) in February. Neurologist generally agreed with my "best guess" that it may have been withdrawal from the Cymbalta that caused the problem initially. I also think it's likely that sleep dep from the mania and vision changes from the trileptal may have been factors.
* Still waiting on the Intensive Outpatient Chronic Pain Rehab Program.
* Finally got in to see Psych, just as the ridiculous mania was finally tapering off. I'm now on Lithium, which I swore I'd never take. Very mixed feelings about that, but with having had to take short-term disability, and everything else, I'm feeling a lot of pressure to be the "good little patient" and try whatever they throw at me. Glad to be off the trileptal, though. Made me woozy as hell at night after I took it, and I'm still not sure the vision changes didn't impact the migraine. No idea whether the lithium's working or not, honestly. It's more of an anti-manic than an anti-depressive, and since I was already out of the mania and into a nasty depression before I started it, *shrug*. The depression is slowly improving, but it's not purely biochemical this time; combination of biochemical and heavy-duty "no longer trust several major people in my life" situational. It's likely to be a while before I'm back to anything resembling normal, emotionally speaking. Not interested in discussing it here, just explaining why I've stopped writing anything particularly personal or emotional.
* IDKE is this weekend! I'm very excited, and really looking forward to taking Chad to the Saturday evening show, along with Casey and Justin. Aside from loving drag kings in general, IDKE has particular emotional meaning to me; it's one of the first dates I went on with Katy and Tori, somewhere around a decade ago.
* There's a Kenyon Community party in celebration of the anti-outsourcing work we've done. It's Saturday, November 3rd, and I'm hoping Chad and Kidlet and I can make it; it'll be a nice mellow affair, and a good chance to appreciate the last of the fall colors and show Kidlet around Kenyon.
* Kidlet's birthday at Fun-n-Stuff was a resounding success.
* Grafton gets home Thursday morning!
* Caleb is moving out mid-November.
* I have caught the office crud and am still a sniffling hacking mess.
* Tarma has a cyst on her ear; I'm dreading the vet bill Wednesday when I take her in.
* Chad and I have been powering through Buffy; his first time, my umpteenth. I'm having a fabulous time sharing it with him. Unfortunately, we've officially hit my least favorite season (5). Glory and Dawn irritate the hell out of me.
* I've been listening through Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, and House of Many Ways. Highly enjoyable.
* I'm finally working my new schedule, 8am-6:30pm M/T/Th/F. Generally really enjoying it so far; it's busier so the time goes faster, and it's getting me a lot more time with Chad. And I've been wanting a 4-day week for a long time.
* Most of my health stuff has self-resolved in the course of the obscene wait for appointments. Physically I'm doing surprisingly well at the moment, overall. Minor fibro crap, but no major disabling hassles in the past few weeks.
* Finally got in to see Neurology, a month after the unending migraine finally ended. Now have an appt with the chronic migraine clinic (since even my usual migraines qualify me for that) in February. Neurologist generally agreed with my "best guess" that it may have been withdrawal from the Cymbalta that caused the problem initially. I also think it's likely that sleep dep from the mania and vision changes from the trileptal may have been factors.
* Still waiting on the Intensive Outpatient Chronic Pain Rehab Program.
* Finally got in to see Psych, just as the ridiculous mania was finally tapering off. I'm now on Lithium, which I swore I'd never take. Very mixed feelings about that, but with having had to take short-term disability, and everything else, I'm feeling a lot of pressure to be the "good little patient" and try whatever they throw at me. Glad to be off the trileptal, though. Made me woozy as hell at night after I took it, and I'm still not sure the vision changes didn't impact the migraine. No idea whether the lithium's working or not, honestly. It's more of an anti-manic than an anti-depressive, and since I was already out of the mania and into a nasty depression before I started it, *shrug*. The depression is slowly improving, but it's not purely biochemical this time; combination of biochemical and heavy-duty "no longer trust several major people in my life" situational. It's likely to be a while before I'm back to anything resembling normal, emotionally speaking. Not interested in discussing it here, just explaining why I've stopped writing anything particularly personal or emotional.
* IDKE is this weekend! I'm very excited, and really looking forward to taking Chad to the Saturday evening show, along with Casey and Justin. Aside from loving drag kings in general, IDKE has particular emotional meaning to me; it's one of the first dates I went on with Katy and Tori, somewhere around a decade ago.
* There's a Kenyon Community party in celebration of the anti-outsourcing work we've done. It's Saturday, November 3rd, and I'm hoping Chad and Kidlet and I can make it; it'll be a nice mellow affair, and a good chance to appreciate the last of the fall colors and show Kidlet around Kenyon.
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Date: 2012-10-16 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-22 12:17 am (UTC)Wow, that's an interesting coincidence. I've been doing the same.
Never watched it at all when it was on TV, but an ex got me into it. A few years back, some friends and I had a bunch of little marathons and worked through the whole series. Except that we skipped season 6 for some reason, don't even remember why some people wanted to skip it. I knew the basics of the season 6 storyline (Willow going evil and nearly destroying the world) from my ex, though.
So now that I have the whole series on Netflix, I decided to go through and watch season 6 and just finished it a few days ago. Even though I knew the general storyline, turns out there was a LOT I missed, some pretty powerful episodes. The "evil Willow" episodes were far more intense/powerful/disturbing than I expected. Even though knowing what happened in Season 6 let me follow Season 7 just fine a few years ago, I realized that Season 7 would be far more enriching after having actually seen Season 6. So now I'm about halfway through Season 7, and have also gone back and watched a few of the early Season 1 episodes. It's interesting to see again how the characters got their start after knowing where they end up. Plus, noticing more how things really tie together instead of the straight-forward "wow what happens next" aspect of watching it for the first time.
I've only ever seen Season 1 of Angel and then bits and pieces thereafter, so I watched the first episode of that last night and am going to be working my way through the whole thing.
So yes, definitely on a Buffy/Angel kick of my own at the moment.
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Date: 2012-10-22 12:32 am (UTC)When I first saw the episode where they had you convinced for half an hour that Dawn was a potential slayer and could actually end up with the responsibility of saving the world, I did a lot of shuddering and cringing. In fact, I had an overpowering urge to learn to speak a few demon languages and brush up on the particulars of human sacrifices so I'd be ready for the coming change in governments.
Glory didn't annoy me. I found her very creepy, even a bit chilling.
Andrew, on the other hand, annoys me greatly, especially in Season 7.
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Date: 2012-10-22 01:18 pm (UTC)