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[selenay]

Yesterday my GP gave me prescription narcotics (well, OK, only Tylenol but still!) because he is awesome. He didn't even tell me to see a physio (possibly because I mentioned that I manage my back through OTC stuff and exercise) and he took the "No NSAIDs due to colits" thing in his stride.

Lovely GP.

This is so that, should my back turn into a total bitch during my flights and I can't get up and walk around due to turbulence (honestly, I've never had a trans-Atlantic flight not have turbulence for at least half the trip), I can take something that might have a hope of getting me down from "OMG, pain!!!!!" to something more reasonable and workable.

If it loops me slightly so that I don't care about "OMG pain!!!", that would probably work just as well.

Look at me, being all forward thinking and stuff.


In fannish news...

Three days with AO3 and the "The Avengers (2012)" tag have shown me that:

1) Coulson/Hawkeye may be my OTP. Just shoot me now.
2) I'm not completely averse to Tony/Steve, even though I adore the Tony/Pepper relationship in the films.
3) Thor/anyone at all does not work for me.
4) However, Thor as comic relief does work for me. I don't even...
5) I'm still at the fluff and silly stage of discovering a new fandom
6) There needs to be more fic (of all types) about Natasha and/or Maria Hill
7) I love my 3G enabled iPad because I can browse fic during my lunch break
8) I may need to load some fic up on my Kindle for the trip

Speaking of the trip, I'm starting to plan my reading and watching stuff. There is going to be a long of plain, train and automobile time. The Hugo voting packet should be out sometime within the next week, so I plan to take all of that with me (yay Kindle PDF conversion!) plus the pre-reading that I've planned. If Chicks Dig Comics ever arrives, that will be with me for reading when I have to have electronics off during the flights. I would argue about whether a Kindle could possibly take down a Boeing 747, but as I want to stay on the flight, I'll just have a dead tree book to dip into instead.

Now I'm planning out my other entertainment. I need some non-Hugo reading with me so that I can take breaks if I need it. That means I need to go through my Amazon wishlist and select a few things that I've bookmarked. Note to self: pick a mix of fun and serious. You know what happens when you pick all silly or all serious.

I have taken advantage of the Avengers sale on Comixology and grabbed a couple of things. There are also new issues of Batgirl, Nightwing, Stormwatch and Demon Knights waiting for me. I've also got the first couple of issues of a newish Wolverine book. I may conduct another Comixology raid when new stuff goes up tomorrow and get the last volume of Joss Whedon's run on Astomishing X-Men at the same time.

I'm planning to download some videos from the BBC iPlayer app because I know that won't work overseas. I'm also half-thinking about Game of Thrones.

You see, on the one hand I'm still attached to having physical DVDs of my videos just in case. On the other hand, the only DVD player in the house is attached to the only TV in my house and my mother is unlikely to want to watch GoT. As she's staying with me for six months after I get back, this could put a serious crimp in my attemps to watch GoT in a timely manner.

So I'm seriously considering purchasing from iTunes and popping some of the episodes onto my iPad. Am I talking the crazy talk?

My iPad: bought to be productive, primarily used for fic, comics and videos. Heh.

Comments

[gaspode.livejournal.com]

If nothing else you should probably read Paul's Black Widow:Deadly Orgin

I'm not sure if its on Comixology or not ...

[gaspode.livejournal.com]

hmm its not. If you have Comic Zeal 5 I can dropbox em

[selenay]

I don't have Comic Zeal 5, but I do have a rather excellent person handling the graphic novels and comic collection at my library who seems to have bought everything ever published.

It'll be in when I get back from England :-) Thank you for the tip!