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It's amazing what a week can do. I used to get done one week earlier than we do. So I only have about 10 days between graduation and going to my conference. I need that week. Today I spent it working on a chapter by chapter outline for the anatomy class. It's like 10 pages long and it's barely there as far as details but enough for tomorrow (and a good start for this paperwork I need to do). I did not think t his would eat up most of my day but it did.

I did go meet my friend MK down at the mexican restaurant. I barely eat, did manage the burrito so yes I am still so nauseous. Fun times. I am not taking this shot again next week b ecause of the conference. Maybe the week after that. Maybe. I might just have to admit I will never be able to tolerate this class of drug (literally the dinner from the night before was still bothering me 15 hours later so it's not just slowing my stomach. I think it's killing it dead.

But I did get a good laugh today. The intoabar matches came out today and I got exactly the same one as last year but I don't even care. I wanted to do a sequel to it and now's here my chance. My only problem is Niffty is rough to write. If you want to see my first story it's right here To Travel is to Live

What I Just Finished Reading:

Trouble the Water by Wendy Vogel. I found it compelling but also it has HARD subject matter (rape/murder of disabled children, cult, religious trauma, internalized and externalized homophobia, hate crimes, child abuse, domestic violence)

Boston Metaphysical Society vol 2 - actually this worked better as a series of short stories than it did as the long arc

What I am Currently Reading:

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. I know a lot of friends love this. It's taken me another week to go 40 pages, something I can usually do in a half hour.

We Can Never Leave - H.E. Edgmon an arc of a horror/rural fantasy thing, trauma and cult survivors are a huge deal in this (and in the life of the author)

Just received the flipside, a graphic novel I won from GR.


What I Plan to Read Next:
I bumped these two back: Under This Red Rock

Of Manners and Murder - a historical mystery

and speaking of GR wins, I have 3 more lying around that I need to get moving on

There are only so many hits you can take in one day. Let me sum them up.

1. Starting at midnight I was getting nauseous. It woke me up at 3 AM. Luckily I didn't get sick and it was over by morning.

2. I drag myself to the BMV with the proper paperwork to get my real ID. No one is there and I'm like whoo hoo, gonna sail right through. And I did until I asked the question 'when can I expect this to be mailed to me?' (hoping 10 days because that's how long I have here) FORTY TWO DAYS. Are you fucking kidding me? As calmly as I can, I ask why wasn't that on the BMV's webpage that it takes almost 6 weeks to get a license? She looks at me puzzled. Why are you upset? You have a passport to get on a plane (as that is my form of ID). Um my driver license expires in a month? If I had known this I'd have shown up in April. Oh you can have this. She hands me a print out of my new id pic. I folded it up in my wallet thinking OMFG

So this means yes I DO have to come back here. This is non-forwardable mail (she even cautioned me, it looks like junk mail be sure to open it). Honestly I'm not that mad about it but it's a long way to go but there are things I want to do in Ohio (like Cosi's star Wars exhibit) and I DO feel better that it wouldn't have mattered if I had gone last week like I thought it might

3. I go to my coffee shop, try something new, Rose Cardamon matcha latte, pricey for very little but this was my reward for not setting the BMV on fire. It was a decent matcha latte. Zero cardamon. Zero rose and seriously how do you mess that up? Rose is a strong flavor and I'm a regular, if you're out of a house made flavor, just tell me that (sometimes they do, depends on the barista) So disappointing

4.Picked up two new mother's day plants (manager special) which is the good news for the day

5. CVS missed seeing one of my scripts (my wellbutrin, let's not forget my mental health pills dudes) now I have to go back tomorrow

6. Come home to get a letter telling me that because my ob/gyn oncologist is not a specialist in abdominal things they denied their request for the CT scan for my hernia because 'it's not in their field' (fuck insurance, seriously. You wanna play? Oh I'll play fuckwads. I can go right to a general surgeon but I'll make sure I get the PCP step in there just so you have to pay out more.)

7 Decide to check on my hotel reservation for the conference. Can I tell you how much I LOATHE these 'reservation call centers' that do groups of hotels? The automated system can't help me because they can't find my phone number (either of them) and I don't have my confirmation number (because my work email's search engine is broken and can't find it which is back in January or maybe even December) If you didn't use our service to make your reservation (I didn't because I went thru the HAPS site to get the conference block discount) you can't use us to find your reservation. Call the hotel.

Well, dumbasses, if the hotel's number came up when I googled the hotel I wouldn't have called your dumb asses. I change up my search and come up with the hotel's phone number (wrote that down) and call them. They can't find my reservation either (cue low key panic). She searches around oh are you at this email? Yes that's me and yes that's my cell phone. The problem was when I filled out HAPS reservation form it changed it from Dr Dana E to Doctor as my first name....the reservation is fine and I'm glad I talked to them because I got to ask where my handicapped backside needed to park (because I KNOW that area of Pittsburgh is shit for parking). You could literally hear her wince. You need to use our valet (because the parking garage is down the street a few blocks which I know) parking for 45$. Sold.

8. Rocket is sick, feverish and naturally tomorrow I can NOT take him to the vet because I have to go make sure I don't have an aneurysm in my skull or a brain tumor or something equally horrible. He was a little improved tonight. I naturally worried he'd get infected post operatively because of his FIV. Might be happening.


Did anything good happen? Maybe. On the second day of the conference (as I already threw my hat into the ring for another one on day one) is another sales pitch lunch with 100$ honorarium. Oh yes let me sign up for this one too. If I get them both, I don't have to worry about lunch at all this conference and I'll make 200$ in Amazon money (what can you do?)

Also at Kroger I found out Farm rich now has a mozzarella stick that has a center of Frank's redhot. This is how I die, yinz.

It's music monday. I'm doing songs from 2020-2025 and running the alphabet. I'm up to F let's hear your recs. Here are mine

[Bad username or unknown identity: F, the letter of this day, lemme tell you]

Actually not a lot of them.




I'm very lukewarm about Miley in general (I'm torn between a woman can do whatever she wants and the oversexualization of her stuff does no woman any good) I do like several of her songs though


And two from Abney Park. They love the story telling song and both of these are that.

This makes the 24 graduation I've been at (some of them were my own). My gown's zipper gave up the ghost. I'm side eying it. I need to fix that or get a new gown. And yes it will be the cheap one the school gets me. Have you seen the cost of regalia? And a lot of it is wool. I nearly passed out as was and it wasn't even that hot today.

I'm also now the leader of the parade. I have the seniority. God dang, I swear I was at the end of the line just last year. Also I missed all the biomedical graduates. Yes I write while they call names (we're a small school, everyone gets their name announced) but I keep looking up. Enough to know for some reason a bunch of guys had black and white beaded leis and then I saw him, a Samoan boy (and yes it was him who brought them for his 'family' i.e. his sports team which was very sweet). I saw the young man who crossed the stage only to get mobbed by his 3 year old son and he picked him up in the sweetest teariest embrace. But I saw NONE of my students and we were onto the associate degree nurses. I look at DM sitting next to me and she was looking at me. NEITHER of us heard our students being called. Did we stroke? Did we time slip? Did we fall into Narian?

I have no answers but it as a nice graduation. After that was the post grad picnic. My tuscan bean salad was a hit. The hostess overdid the meat ...again. I wish she'd let us pay for some of this. It was a fun hang out and the comic book store owning education prof (who works remotely with the masters' students) was talking about going to the NYC comic con as a business. I'm like CS take me with you next time. I will work your table for frakking free!

Nice day all the way around. But I was too tired to go to the Night Market. If it wasn't in Chillicothe I might have gone but that's an hour drive up and an hour back so I said no since I have to go up on Tuesday too

As for the story I was writing, the one with the squonk. Yep I started it. I need to go look at word count before I get too far.

as they scrawl apologies to me on their final exam. And it's done. I'm done. Graduation is on Saturday and I'm done til August. But not really I have so much work to do this summer it won't be much of a break. It will probably be a lot of surgery.

And send me good thoughts for tomorrow. I see the eye doctor and I would love to have one doctor's appointment NOT have a major problem for me (especially my eyes, going blind from diabetes is a legit fear for me)

Hey I do have a rec for rec thursday.rewrite_a_fic the idea is to rewrite a story more than 1 1/2 years old. I love this. Hell I've been doing this on my own. I've been slowly rewriting my old Buffy fic for posting anew. I'm certainly a better writer than I was 20 years ago. Maybe there's one you'd like to tweak too. This is your community and your chance.

And a bit of good news. As I was dealing with today's work drama Cenage book publishing emailed me about the upcoming work conference. Want to come to lunch and hear us talk about shaping the future students and we'll pay you 100$ to do it. I never signed up for anything so fast. I nearly snapped a finger. I haven't been asked to one of these the last several conferences so I'm thrilled. One lunch I don't have to pay for and I can sit still if you give me 100$.


And my poster for the conference looks nice.

Just so I can find it easily.... for getyourwordsout

My SPorts and Exercise/ Pre professional anatomy and physiology class all opted to NOT come to the last part of the lecture and the review on friday, all 10 of them. Guess what only 2 passed the final exam. Guess that wasn't their best option. Hell only two knew what a mammogram helped diagnosis and TWO told me the non-living coat on the anatomical crown (the tooth but apparently they didn't know that) was the FORESKIN (well it is a crown so obviously I meant their dicks) and one said Cervix (guys both of those are LIVING tissue). I'm like I'm a better teacher than this, right? RIGHT? What exactly is wrong with them? (another older student who is closer to my age than theirs asked me that last week though he's nursing and in that class)


Saw the psychiatrist again today. She was less happy with how I looked today but I explained everything that's going on with my health and she wanted to up my wellbutrin. I said no because a) I'm going on the full time gabapentin for now b) tomorrow I see the endocrinologist and I don't know what is going to happen medication wise c) I'm getting that head MRI next week and I don't want to have too many medication changes at once.

Here's a weird thing, yesterday I thought my bedroom ceiling fan's light died. (the living room and computer room ceiling fans' motors have cakked it) But I was worried the wall switch went bad. When talking it over it with Dad I remembered I had hit the cute things dangling from the chain pulls and I'm like is it possible it tangled up so hard it pulled the chain to the off position? Turns out yes. Geez.

I could use some help. I'm thinking of doing one of the cryptid open calls and this one specifically wants rarer cryptids of the Appalachian region (by authors hopefully from the region. I am) I have three I'm thinking of and I was curious which ones others think would be fun. I am pretty sure I'll use two of these. I know that this will be a team of ecologists out there, maybe with students (how many do I want to get eaten...)

Smoke Wolves

hidebehind I'm leaning to these ones (yes it's the intestine eating)

squonk I'm thinking of using this one too but as an add on because they're not very scary

the squonks have their own festival I want to go but I'm house sitting. damn.

So what do you think?

It's music monday and I'm doing the alphabet again and in my case using songs from 2020-2025 (but you do you and rec whatever you'd like) We're up to letter E

( I wasn't expecting this many )

There were nine things to do today as I mentioned but it rained. ALL. day. I gave up. Like I said I've been unimpressed with free comic book day lately and I was just in Huntington a week ago. I haven't read my books from last Ohioana book fest (but all week I was planning to do this if it rained) I still thought about going to Logan for the paranormal festival because it IS Paranormal Day. but my cranky guts were acting up. I did nothing.

I'm sad about it.

Also it's the thing I SHOULD have done because it took me almost the entire day to grade the lab finals and make my final for monday. I ran to the office to print out the research papers they failed to bring to the lab final because I want to read them tomorrow. It was a busy day in that respect, enough that I wouldn't have been likely to finish in one day if I had waited til tomorrow.

SOrry, I feel like I'm boring everyone.

I did get to do the happy tea dance today. I thought I could do it yesterday. Imagine my disappointment when I opened the box to see nothing more than my glucose monitors. Today my tea is here and I have so many new variations of earl grey.