Hello from the void!

[selenay]

*blows dust off the furniture*

So, that whole "I'm totally going to blog regularly, really!" thing didn't last through the end of the winter of hell. Whoops.

So, time to start again.

Where to start?

I'm enjoying the lack of winter. I'm over the moon that Agent Carter got renewed with a ten episode order. I have no words to express what I feel about the Hugos clusterfuck.

My back has totally borked itself and I've spent two months trying to get a new GP, because walk-in clinics are bloody useless for this stuff. Next Friday I'm seeing someone who *might* be my new GP. Cross your fingers? It would be nice to have some help and a referral to the right people.

I've also got a colonoscopy next week. The original plan was to do it later in the year, but I got offered an appointment on Friday for next week, after some bloodwork results came back. That's not worrying at all, obvs. I doubt my haemoglobin is low, so it's probably a raging white blood count and possibly some high inflammatory markers.

I can't imagine why that's happening. My back has only been a mass of inflammation since February. Although I'm willing to concede that I might be getting some belly pain that I've cheerfully been ignoring for a couple of weeks. Urk. It'll be interesting to see what the scope shows, anyway.

Guess I'm playing medication roulette again soon :-)

I have done so much reading. The only time my back is relatively not painful is when I'm walking or pedalling on my stationary bike, so I've had my nose in a book while I pace the house or pedal. So much fic reading. So many books.

Writing hasn't been easy, because sitting makes my back hurt, but I have managed to figure out an arrangement with my iPad and a keyboard that isn't too awful. I write in bursts and then wander off to read and pace for a while before writing some more. Working at my desktop only happens on weekends during my good phases of the day, so editing of any form has been horrendously delayed. Ugh. But I'm getting there.

Summer hiatus is upon us. I managed to keep up with most shows, but I've still got a few Sleepy Hollow episodes to watch and I didn't quite manage to marathon the last half of Arrow before Mum arrived for her annual visit last week. I'll be trying to sneak in the last couple of episodes whenever she's out.

I'm sure there must be interesting things for me to talk about, but the habit has gone again. Drat! Anyone got something they want me to write about?

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Good luck with the potential GP - a good one can be fantastic and a bad one, well, we've all met them.

[selenay]

The good news is that the potential GP is an actual GP and I liked him a lot, so I feel pretty good about that :-)

[fyrdrakken]

Perhaps you could try some sort of standing desk arrangement? Or prop something up on the handlebars of the bike? I'm so used to having a Kindle on whatever cardio machine I'm doing, and in fact have learned to triple-task reading, skiing and knitting at the gym (much to the amusement of witnesses). But, yeah, working with an iPad and a keyboard rather than something like a laptop, that could be tricky finding a way to put things where you can use them while you walk or pedal without risking dropping them.

[selenay]

A standing desk doesn't work well for me, because standing is as painful as walking when my back is bad. A treadmill desk is something I'd like to investigate one day. I've seen a lot of people using them and it seems to work. If I could figure out a way to set up a bike/desk, that would be even better!

My back has suddenly decided to cooperate with my meds, though, so it's getting a bit easier to get stuff done in the evening.