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You are viewing the most recent 20 entries November 14th, 2009: You know, that might explain it. All in all, though? It was a good day.    Current Mood:  accomplishedOctober 19th, 2009: Grrrrrr I swopped PMS symptoms with Ajay today. She burst into tears, and I got angry. It's usually the other way around. I am still quite angry.     Current Mood: bloodySeptember 24th, 2009: My eyes feel wrong This is probably the result of not enough sleep and too much computer work. *yawns* Also, blood. And a quite symmetrical set of dragons.       Current Mood: bloodyAugust 29th, 2009: Hm, Arrival of period may explain extreme sentimentality outburst in writing last night.       Current Mood: bloodyJuly 28th, 2009July 4th, 2009: Bleeding on 4th July Painkillers are fun.      25 days. Reasonable interval. If I do same-again, I'll be done with my next period by the time I fly to Montreal. Yay. Current Mood: bloodyJune 9th, 2009: 413 nanohertz  25 days, actually. Still. Ibuprofin now, please.        Current Mood: tiredMay 14th, 2009April 21st, 2009: I haven't had coffee yet today No headache. Hands not shaking. I am not in a killer mood. I have not drunk coffee since about 5pm yesterday. (Over the weekend, I went for a 24-hour stretch without coffee....) So, well. From time to time I like to prove to myself that I am not a coffee junkie, I just like coffee. Mmm, coffee. I am also bleeding really heavily, which certainly makes up for last time, but, um. Now looking forward to it stopping, kthxbye.      Current Mood: awakeApril 20th, 2009: Return of the squid 23 days! That's more like it. ( squid squid squid ) Current Mood: accomplishedApril 2nd, 2009: Sisters, volcanos, and work Had a longish conversation with my sister last night: this BBC article seems rather ironic as a result. On the other hand, I can't imagine having a conversation like that with any other member of my family, so, well. In other news, I meant to do some work last night, but Volcano was on, and... I watched it. It is peculiar how a simply awful movie can become actually watchable because of one actor. (One and a half: Anne Heche wasn't bad either, though her character didn't have much focus beyond being The Scientist Who Is Right But No One Pays Attention.) Tommy Lee Jones made the character he was playing - a divorced dad, his teenage daughter visiting for a week, who is also the disaster manager for Los Angeles (whatever - I didn't quite get it, but then I wasn't paying that much attention to stoopid plot details), and then a volcano erupts. In Los Angeles. One reason why I did not pay too much attention is because the director really enjoyed doing lots of scenes in which someone hapless falls (or in one instance jumps) into molten lava and burns to death. In fact if you are that close to molten lava you are probably fairly dead already, because the gases are poisonous and the heat is extreme. But scientific realism had evidently had one date with this movie and then moved elsewhere, never to meet again. But: Tommy Lee Jones did manage to make his own reactions realistic. Which is half the battle. The moment I actually walked out, though (I mean, through to the kitchen to make another cup of tea) was a moment about twenty minutes from the end where I understood that it was inevitable that Tommy Lee Jones's character (and his daughter, and a small boy wearing a metaphorical red shirt) were all going to die. Except, it wasn't the kind of movie where those characters would die, so I understood that after harrowing me nicely over an hour or two, the director had decided to whomp it up by having a Dad Saves His Daughter And Nameless Kid You Don't Care About Really From Certain Death Scene. And I don't like being whomped like that. In other news, I think my period, which never really got started, has kind of stopped. Franlkly this is just annoying me. Current Mood: stressedMarch 31st, 2009: Bloody hell This is the weirdest period I've had in approximately 28 years. Current Mood: bloodyMarch 29th, 2009: Weird That wasn't even a peculiar one-day bleed. That was more like a blurt. Singular.  Also, clocks went forward, it's an hour later. (And I just saw Bob poise herself to jump to the windowsill, make several half-starts, and decide not to: I seldom notice her missing her tail any more, but that was a clear instance of it.) Current Mood: weirdMarch 28th, 2009: Hello, Saturday. Hello, squid. Sixteen days? That's absurd. Current Mood: bloodyMarch 12th, 2009: Dopey little dragons    Also, I'm bleeding. (Very nearly exactly 28 days after my last one... maybe my cycle is lengthening out.) Current Mood: weirdFebruary 11th, 2009: Bloody hell I find, looking back, that not only was my last period an unusually long one (started almost at the end of 2008, continued for a week: not heavy, just long) the gap between periods has either been unusually long - 33 days! or I had a period at some point in the awful stretches of January when I was limping, coughing, and trying to breathe, and just forgot to make any of my usual notes about it: in which case, I've just had two unusually short gaps between periods. Neither one is particularly worrying for once in a while, but I wish I could remember which. Current Mood: bleedingFebruary 10th, 2009: I went to see Moonacre Manor There are spoilers for the film and for Elizabeth Goudge's novel The Little White Horse, below. ( one of my favourite books, insanely adapted ) Current Mood: amusedJanuary 1st, 2009: Hello, 2009 I'm making cupcakes. Also soup (Brussels sprouts; celery; onion; red chillis; red lentils; fresh coriander; turmeric); and beginning a fresh sourdough batter, since I'll need to make more bread in a day or so. Is this an omen, or merely habit? Current Mood: tiredNovember 8th, 2008: Okay, stuff... My sister rang me. She is on her way to a Landmark Forum Saturday and wanted to check in about Christmas/December. We settled on the weekend of the 12th, which is best for me, best for nephew, and fine for her, and my parents are likely to be good for it (they had hoped for the 19th, but recognised this was not that likely because you're into Christmas travel time then). We talked about the US elections and I explained about the awfulness of Proposition 8. I do not think she would have quite understood had I just been wonky about it, but I clarified it for her by pointing out that I knew people who had got married in California in the last six months, and she made sympathetic noises. Then she invited me to Landmark Forum once again, and I said that I had looked stuff about it up on the Internet and did not believe it was my kind of thing. She was impressed that I had, and said no, it wasn't, but it would still be good for me. I swear, the next time she says this I want to say "Yes, I know that's what you are supposed to tell me because I looked it up." Still, she has not yet ended a phone call to me with "I love you" which is a mandated Landmark Forum thing... so not quite lost to decency or common sense, yes?" Anyway. I must sign up to Yuletide this weekend. (I started this week and realised that I didn't have a chance of thinking sensibly about it.) Also, I am nanoing, and have written 11192 words, which is 1308 words less than my target but I'm still feeling pretty good about it. However. This morning, I am determined to go to the gym, and to a Close Guantanamo Bay demo at 1pm which is being organised by kids from my old school. Yay. Tags: bloody bloody bloody, family stuff, landmark forum, yuletide November 7th, 2008: Painkillers are lovely, I eat them with chocolate I am bleeding. I had lunch with my parents. My dad is MUCH BETTER, which is yay. (A persistent breathlessness turned out to be the result of fluid in the bottom of his lungs which was caused by low pulse after his fall and which has been fixed by a diuretic, which he can stop taking soon...) Painkillers are lovely. Current Mood: bloody |
