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Have another list from me but good news. yay!

1. Rocket came home. I didn't mention it because I didn't want anyone to worry but Rocket had a massive fever on monday (well I mentioned that part) but he went out when I did and never came back. After three days I thought he might have expired from the illness being an FIV+ kitty but no, he's back and seems okay.

2. Went to work and everyone got on the same page pretty easily. There are still tensions sure (it's work) but I think I got them to understand why this is important and that I'm the leader on it.

3. I finished my unconventionalcourtship story it's basically 25K in length. OMG. I'm pretty excited about this though. I found a blurb that wasn't awful but it was smutty which is hysterical since I could have finished this without smut. I DO have smut in it but not that much, I could almost make it 'mature' vs explicit.

4. the chillers and thrillers writers group has moved to 2 discord meetings and it's so helpful for me. I managed to get about 2K in on my pest control story but I DO need to start saving urls and research in files because I had the perfect red herring but lost it. I did save the actual baddie so there's that.

5. Found a lot of neat restaurants near my pittsburgh hotel and it has a pool so I'm happy.

on the bad side, still fucking nauseous. And I've misplaced something (artwork) that I know I put 'somewhere safe' and I have no clue where that safe place is. weeps.

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

for the results of my MRI. They already have the results which I'm glad of because of course I'm nervous that it could be an aneurysm or a brain tumor. That said I am righteously PISSED OFF about this whole thing. I knew I wasn't having contrast which I DID wonder about because that would make finding vascular anomalies easier but I assumed the neurologist (who as I've said before knows me personally) knows what he's doing.

The tech says to me 'he didn't ask for contrast? That's unusual. I'll take extra pictures just to try and offset that.' I reply 'he definitely said no contrast but I'm not sure why. I'm not allergic. I've had it with contrast. Hell YOU'VE given me contrast before (for the same neurologist) for my lumber spine.

I get the report already. The good news is no brain tumor or vascular issues, the bad news because he didn't ask for contrast and the radiologist is like this study is 'severely limited without contrast' What the actual fuck? It was basically a waste of time because you can't see the fucking vessels well enough. The nerves in question are okay though but that also means that I'm no closer to knowing why this is happening. Maybe it really is in my jaw so next stop is an ENT I guess.

I did get to relax at the coffee house for a while, got a ton of writing on my unconventionalcourtship story done. It's nearly finished (thanks to a sleepless night of nausea and sweating. Ugh not looking forward to summer) It's over 20K. Why can't original fiction be this easy to write?

And since this is long enough another week without a fannish 50 tuesday. I don't have much more to say right now (catching up on Lazarus, maybe after that)