Apollymi ::||:: Dark Passion Play

I'm definitely having some issues remembering to do this. I'm trying to get better, but sometimes I just plain forget. At least until lunch time. Why it's easier to remember then, I don't know, but it is.

It's been outrageously hot for April-May so far. I've been spoiled on our winter. I want the winter weather back! Not in the least because I hate when warm weather comes with all its attendant bugs. Bugs bugs bugs. Cockroaches, mosquitoes, gnats, fleas, and all the other icky, nasty, mean things.

I've been having some sort of weird issue with my right hand. It wouldn't be a big deal at all, except for that I write with my right hand. It's definitely my dominant hand... and lately when I try to close my hand or pinch my fingers or hold a book page open, it starts hurting then trembling then twitching. It's actually a bit painful and I would really like it to quit. I looked up hand tremors -- and it's one of the early symptoms to entirely TOO many things: carpal tunnel, repetitive stress, calcium deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, thyroid problems, Parkinson's, epilepsy... The list goes on and gets progressively more terrifying. I would much prefer one of the first 4 than the last 3.

I don't know... It's not like it's all the time or anything and it's not like I have great joints. Maybe if it keeps up beyond next week, I'll see about making a doctor's appointment. I just hate going to the man; he always so condescending, and it always takes so long to get an appointment. Yeah, we'll see.

Everyone I've ever talked to has said that if you don't like your primary care physician then fire them. I doubt I'd be able to find a good one, so I'm not sure on the wisdom of bothering.

When I get home, I'm going to install my copy of the Rosetta Stone program and German 1 on Wraith, so I can keep up with my studying while I'm on the go. See? I can be smart sometimes. (Or as Katsuko would put it: I can be a smart cookie for not being a cookie. I forget which one of us originated that expression, but we like using it.)

And now to see about trying to get some writing done before I'm gone for the weekend.

I've been changing things around here. I went back to one of my old layouts for starters. I liked the OT4 one, but I went back to my OT3 instead. I also changed out mood themes, from Usagi to... Usagi. It's just a smaller sized one.

I'm about 75% done on Ash. More or less, anyway. I want it to be at least 100,000 words. It will probably end up being longer, though hopefully no longer than 110,000 words. After I finish it and get it edited and sent to Cacoethes, I'm going to take a break until May or June. I'm hoping to be working on fanfiction in this break.

In the break, I want to get done:

• At least 1 chapter of Whoever Brings the Night
• All of Endless Loop 5: Route 666
• Write a new chapter of Belladonna
• Finish Third Chance
• Finish sekkrit project.

I doubt I'll finish all of that, but I'm damn well gonna try.

I think I'm starting to get sick. I'm freezing here in my office, but no one else is cold. A few side notes to this are (1) the outside temperature is 43° and (2) I'm wearing 3 shirts (a tanktop, a long sleeved shirt, and a sweater) and 2 pairs of pants (stretch pants and dress slacks). Yeah, definitely getting sick.

And now, back to work

I updated my layout. I have to say I'm digging this one. It's gorgeous but also creepy. It shouldn't, but it gives me too many ideas. Of course, that could have something to do with two of the three fanfiction projects I'm currently working on. But I refuse to develop a crossover OT4. A crossover OT3 is bad enough (even if I have converted people over to the dark side with it).

I stayed home sick yesterday with a combination of lack of sleep and migraine. As in, the migraine woke me up at 1 and didn't die off for quite a while, so I only got about 2 hours sleep and felt terrible, so no work yesterday. I still don't feel too great, but I'm here to finish getting things ready for the reception next week. What was worse was that yesterday and some today, I've had the "shakies", where my limbs (especially my hands) shake something terrible, making doing a lot of anything very hard.

My new phone (that I ordered Wednesday) got in yesterday afternoon as well. I have to say this: It. Is. Love. I got a Samsung U940 Glyde, one of the few Verizon iPhone variants... since I can't change to AT&T to get an iPhone. We also upgraded our cellphone plan, so we have new extras, which is nice. I now have Mobile Instant Messaging and Mobile E-Mail, so if you need to get in touch with me while I'm away from the computer, try one of these:

AIM: ApollymiHekate
Yahoo Messanger: hekate1888

ApollymiHekate@aim.com
hekate1888@yahoo.com

I should be answering any of those more frequently. In fact, I'll even be checking them while I'm on the regular messengers, so give it a shot.

And that's about it for me for now. I'm going to be trying to get some writing done over the long weekend, so wish me luck.

Later, my freaky darlings!!

And this is a quick note to say a couple of things:

1) I am self-medicating my fatigue/exhaustion with the world's easiest solution for being tired: candy. 2 grape (my 3rd least favorite flavor - my favorite is strawberry, of course) Jolly Ranchers candies and about 9 (so far) of the longer Tootsie Rolls.

2) This doesn't mean I'm not also real medicating with Tums (again) and ibuprofen.

3) I make dorky Excel charts.

4) I'm still asleep.

I really need to quit tailoring my subject lines to my icons. Meh, oh well. I like my subject lines. I like my icons. No one else but me Hardly no one else reads this, so who cares.

I'm about 200 or so words into "Arcana". I vaguely have an idea of where I want to go with it, but not too much. For me, planning too far ahead keeps the ideas from flowing.

Traditionally, the big write-athon months are terrible for me health-wise. Last November, I managed about 4 hours of sleep a night, ate what I could quickly grab when I could take half a minute's worth of a break, and just generally abused my body. Last July wasn't nearly so bad, but I still didn't sleep or eat like. For April Fool's Novel, I've only signed up for 30,000 words (or 1,000 words a day), so maybe I won't overdo it too much. April Fool's Novel is mostly to get my marathoning brain in gear for JulNoWriMo and then NaNoWriMo.

It's also an excuse to get "Arcana" finished and e-published. I want to start getting my name out there. It couldn't hurt -- and it could help.

But I do need minions, to do everything else for me.

Happy birthday to me!

In about 1.25 hours, I'm going to be heading on towards Georgia. I'll be in Shellman the rest of today and till after lunch tomorrow. Then I'll head on over to Cuthbert, where I'll be till at least a bit after lunch Sunday.

I have to remember to bring all my medicine. Let's see, what all I do I need to bring: Nexium, Yaz, my vitamins, the stuff for my hair, and the Tagamet. Yes, I have to take the Nexium and the Tagamet. The Nexium doesn't help nearly enough, so the Tagamet takes care of the rest of the pain.

We also need to put food down for the kitties to tide them over till Tiffany comes to feed them tonight.

Other than that, all that's left is to pack and head out towards Georgia.

And on a small random note, I got up this morning and checked my email. When I saw the light flashing for a new email in my kbell@katherinebell.net account, I nearly squee'ed my freaking heart out. I had it in my head that I had gotten my answer to my novel already, and it was cause for major squee and dancing and maybe calling up everyone I knew. But, alas, I had forgotten that I had set my katherinebell account here to use that address too. :) Not cause for squeeing, but I did get birthday wishes from IJ (and JF). This is because they rock so much harder than LJ.

And I still want to make a music video to this song, using the last three episodes of Series Three of Doctor Who: "Utopia", "The Sound of Drums", and "Last of the Time Lords". I think it would pretty much rock.

And now off in a Georgia direction. Ciao, sweeties!

This isn't a real update, since the most I have to report is that Paula doesn't seem very happy and I really hope I'm not part of the problem. But mostly, I want to say a few random things.

I have new icons! This is one of them (and cleverly relates to the rest of the post). Okay, they're all the Ninth Doctor, but what can I say? I have a favorite.

I asked katsuko the other day, if I was a Marauder, which one would I be? She was quiet for a while, long enough that I had to ask, "Not James, right?" Finally she responded, no, not James. Apparently, if I'm any of the Marauders, I'm Sirius. I can definitely live with this.

I'm 49 pages into the transliteration for Dance in the Vampire Bund. I need to do 40 pages a day, like I did Tuesday, a few more times, and I'll be finished. Then in three months, I can get paid. Hurray for getting paid. (I almost typed "laid" instead of "paid" there. Amusing typo.)

I have a headache. Chocolate and caffeine does not help it. This sucks.

I'm re-re-re-reading (probably a few more "re"'s on there, but I got tired of typing it) the movie tie-in book to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I like it. It ties in the first movie and the future, in addition to telling the story of the second movie.

My keyboard's left arrow key keeps sticking. It's very annoying.

We moved my desk at work. I am now in what I like to call the Seat of Power: the main desk in the Admin Office. Très spiffy.

And that's about it. Ciao.