Bits and bobs

[selenay]

I am starting to suspect that I may have damaged something when I subluxed/dislocated my wrist in my sleep a couple of weeks ago. Rather than gradually getting better with nighttime splinting the way that the right wrist did, my left is gradually getting more painful. Admittedly, it's not too bad when I first take off the splint but as the day goes on and I do more, it gets fairly painful. It's OK if it's in a neutral position (so typing feels fine). The pain is when I flex it back and forth, particularly if I need to put any weight on it for doing things like opening the heavy fire doors at work. It's surprising how often one does that with ones non-dominant hand! Ouch.

Argh, the joys of EDS. Or is this the undiagnosed but probable inflammatory arthritis finally hitting outside my spine? After all, I'm definitely still in a minor UC flare that will not end no matter what I throw at it so it could be that.

Yeah, I know, I should go to see Awesome GI Guy but it doesn't feel bad enough to do that and yet it's grumbling along and won't actually stop. Bah, my stupid body and my freaky immune system.

Also, I have a lurky sore throat and sniffles. I'm either developing brand new hay fever or a super-insane cold virus is attempting to defeat my super-charged immune system. It could go either way.


In other words, I am ouchy and uncomfortable. Please send tea and chocolate.

I have been doing the stats on my June reading and working out what my July priorities are. I think they can be summed up as: finishing reading the damn Hugo list.


So I've got two GRRM books to finish, a couple of novellas and three volumes of Fables. I'm starting to suspect that I may only manage one and a half GRRM novels by the end of the month, but I should at least be in the process of reading the nominated volume when I vote. So I'll call it a win.

I've also got a stack of non-Hugo graphic novels from the library to read (primarily Avengers-related, oops?) before they're due back and The Throne of the Crescent moon, which is due in ten days. I've heard fantastic things about that book and it's under 300 pages so I'm anticipating it being a quick, enjoyable read.

And that's July sorted for me.


August will, I think, be lots of books that I've been saving as my reward for finishing the Hugos (new Mercedes Lackey, new John Scalzi, new Mira Grant book, Wolf Hall) and probably a fair bit of fanfic. I'm going to try to be good for the next three and a bit weeks and curtail my fanfic reading so that I concentrate on Hugo reading.

Expect some flaily arrgh yay joy on July 31st :-D

Yesterday I finally got around 2,000 words of Thing 4 written that I did not actively hate and declared that Thing a wrap. Woo! Now I get to write Thing 5, which should be much easier and lots of fun :-D I'm thinking that this entire fic will weigh in somewhere close to 10,000 words when I'm done which is the longest fic I've written for two years. Go me!

No PR Manager Deserves The Avengers is being edited and polished and I'm intending to get it onto AO3 by the end of the week. I apologise in advance for the insanity levels displayed in it. This was my way relief from the process of rewriting Thing 4 at least three times (I lost count).

I've got a kind of outline worked out for my marvel_bang fic and I want to start that next week. It's got alternate reality dimension jumping, two Coulsons, vampire!Clint, weird super soldier serums and plenty of hijinks. It's either going to be tremendously fun or the fic writing equivalent of a living nightmare.

Let's hope for option two, shall we? And remember that I can always take a short crack fic break if I need to :-D

Comments

[fyrdrakken]

Can you start using the splint during the day? Part of the day, at least -- say, putting it on after lunch?

I've heard good things about Throne of the Crescent Moon, too. It's somewhere on the list. I'm not a Hugo voter, though, so I'm feeling comfortable with only reading the titles I like the looks of and/or have heard good things about, and reading lots and lots of fanfic (because I've passed the 1750 mark in terms of number of stories on my Kindle, and most of them are yet-to-be-read). I'm hoping your big bang fic is fun.

[selenay]

I try really hard not to splint during the day because I'm afraid of muscle atrophy. EDS makes rebuilding muscle that bit harder and I don't want to end up with a weaker hand :-( I may have to conced defeat and actually see someone about it. Ugh.

I'm enjoying the fact that the Hugos have got me outside my comfort zone and I've found a couple of books that I really enjoyed but wouldn't have normally picked up. I'm looking forward to taking a break, though, and my Kindle will be acquiring a lot of stuff!