From the mixed up files of meredith44

You can tell you have had insanely cold temperatures in winter when you go out on your lunch break and go "It's so warm/nice out here!" ... and it is 22 degrees (-6C).

In my defense it is also sunny. :P

Again, sorry for not responding to comments and other people's entries. I'm going to have quite the marathon commenting session when I'm around to do so. I wouldn't usually post when I owe so many comments, but this is Day 10, and no way am I having to start the challenge over.

Still sick. If anything, I feel worse than before, probably due to stress and stuff. IDK. I did all of the stuff with my mother and then went to take a nap when I got home. I remember shutting off my alarm at 10:30 or so and then woke up now. As I am not braining, and it is almost 3am, you get the dream I woke up during just now instead of any actual "real" post.

( Collapse )

And then I woke up. And realized I had to post, so didn't fall back into the dream to see how it played out. And I am kinda sad about that, because I sorta wanna know what on earth was going on there. :P

Here's hoping that I start feeling better soon and that I'll be around tomorrow night to respond to things and such. OMG, if I don't start feeling better soon, IDK what I'll do. It has been two weeks, and I almost feel as bad as I did that first Thursday/Friday. With added pinkeye!

I hope everyone is doing well. :)

So, I'm still sick. And now also exhausted. Work wasn't bad today, but as I didn't get home from the hospital until well after 3am and didn't get to sleep until almost 4am, it seemed longer than it was. And then I was at the hospital. So I'm not braining well at all right now.

Meaning I'm not doing any comment replying or post replying tonight, sorry. As I'd like for comments I make to actually make sense.

I wouldn't usually make a "real" post to my journal in this state, either. But I need to make some kind of post for the challenge. Kit told me to write poetry about kaiju, and Meg requested an ode to her toes, so... crack it is.

No one needs to read this. Really. I make no promises that any of it even makes sense. I'm sure it actually doesn't. So, yeah, just skip over it. Except Kit. And Meg. As they need to suffer the awfulness of this because they forced me to do it.

And warning for spoilers for Pacific Rim. Kinda. Better safe than sorry.

( Collapse )

I don't know what time I'll be home from the hospital tomorrow. But hopefully it will be soon enough that I will have some time to write a real post and respond to everyone else. I love (LOVE) that everyone is posting. And that everyone is commenting to my posts. And I swear I will get to them soon. Really.

I had so many plans for today after work. But I woke up with my eye glued shut. When I managed to get it open, it was goopy and rather red. Yay, pinkeye? (Image if anyone else is kinda grossed out, but kinda fascinated by these things as I am. But, yes, gross-looking eye at that link. You have been warned.) I did make it to work (last time I had pinkeye, they said it was fine for me to work, as long as I didn't touch my eye and/or washed my hands frequently. I don't know if my primary job wants me to work tomorrow with it. I have a message in with my supervisor. My supervisor last time didn't want me to work, but this one might.

Last time I had pinkeye, the doctor at the clinic had me wash it out with baby shampoo (as it is antibacterial but tear-free/supposedly painless) instead of antibiotic drops (presumably because those cost money, and this being the free clinic, they like to work around that if they can?), so I tried that this time. However, that image is after I have done so twice today. (Granted, it was also after I woke up from a nap, so theoretically, the nap, like nighttime sleep, could have made it worse?)

Anyway, this means I am wearing my glasses from 1997 (I had ones from 2005, but the earpiece broke off and I hate spending $300 on new glasses when I only wear them when I can't wear lenses) that are just enough off from my actual prescription that they give me headaches. (On top of the headaches/dizziness/etc. of my current virus THAT WON'T GO AWAY EVEN AFTER OVER A WEEK *sob*.) Plus, it means that my eye is filled with goop, so it won't focus. Obviously, both together makes being on the internet difficult.

So, you get this instead of a real entry. Because I really don't need to think or focus to whine about it. (I wouldn't have bothered to make an entry at all, except no way am I breaking my streak on Day 7 of the challenge!) Sorry for whining two days in a row. I'm going to try to respond to comments in my LJ as I hate being behind, but I might not make it. And I probably won't make it to replying to other people's entries.

Sigh... I hate being sick.

I dropped a lot of shows last year (Once Upon a Time, Castle, Bones, NCIS, Grimm, Suburgatory, etc.) so I was really hoping there was going to be a lot of new television shows I'd want to watch this season, but, nope! It doesn't seem like there will be. Thus, my television viewing is going to be a bit sparse this year, I think.

( Collapse )

So that is 10 definites and 5 maybes/going to see how the first episodes go. I used to watch like 30 shows at one point, so seeing my list getting down that low seems really, really, really odd to me. Oh well. Maybe I'll luck out and a show that I didn't think I'd like will end up being one I really enjoy. (Like Hannibal last year.)

When I was a kid, I adored Wonder Woman. I had the Wonder Woman underoos, I dressed up as Wonder Woman for Halloween (I totally wish I'd grabbed a picture of me as such. Maybe I'll add it when I go to my mother's tomorrow), and I watched every episode of the Lynda Carter television show when it reran when I was a kid. I also have always adored books. As such, I tried Wonder Woman comics at least twice, about when I was in fifth/sixth grade. However, I didn't care for them. It might have just been the issues I had access too, but I didn't care for the art style, as it was too jarring to me, and I didn't care for the story, as there just wasn't enough of it for me.

( Collapse )

To the surprise of probably no one, my favorite character is Emma Frost. I want to read more about Magneto and his family, as they have potential (especially considering what I've seen in the cartoons that Kit has had me watch), but they haven't really been in too many of the books I've read. I also want more Daken (my library only had a couple of them), as I think he has potential to be a character I like reading about. There are a few characters that I'm not thrilled with (surprisingly, I'd consider Charles/Professor X to be one of them at this point, which I wouldn't have guessed considering the movies I've seen of the X-Men), but overall I think I've enjoyed what I've read so far and want to read more.

There are many other series I am interested in, both past and current. The problem is getting my hands on them, as I can't justify spending the money on them, so I am limited by what is available at my library. I might end up getting desperate when I've exhausted my library and buy some. Although part of the issue is figuring out which titles I'd want to buy and where I'd need to start them from and all of the logistics involved. Comics are a convoluted entity!

(So sorry for the TL;DR. It really is a ramble. You really only need to know that I read a lot of various X-men titles from the cut text.)

So as some of you are aware, I don't tend to sleep much. Which means I tend to read a lot. In the last couple of weeks (maybe week and a half?) I've read The Memory Collector by Meg Gardiner, Phantom Evil and The Killing Edge by Heather Graham, Bones Are Forever by Kathy Reichs, and Hide by Lisa Gardner. All were reasonably interesting and perfectly fine ways to pass the time, but I probably wouldn't recommend any of them, really. This is why I don't generally do book posts! :P

I'm currently working on hello, darkness by Sandra Brown, which I'd guess will be about the same, but then I next have Making History by Stephen Fry, which queer_theory recommended, so I'm looking forward to that one, if only as something different.

( Collapse )

As a related aside, if anyone has any mystery, thriller, urban fantasy, or high fantasy books they'd like to recommend, I'm always on the lookout for new things to read! :)

So, for universe_the, we have to post on 10 consecutive days. If I do that, I will have surpassed my post total for all of last year, I think. I'm going to ramble for today, but like others doing this challenge, if anyone has anything they want me to talk about (like top 5s or other random Tumblr memes), feel free to poke me with them.

Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes for my kitty. He was in very dire straits (the following week the vet looked at the lab results and marveled at how bad they were), but he pulled through. Now I have to keep him on prescription food (that costs more per day than I spend on myself for food!) for the rest of his life, but he should be okay.

School this year is going well. I have slightly older kids this year, and they are doing well with a lot of skills. I also love my co-teacher. So it seems that this year will be smoother than the last few have been. Sadly, however, I'm not really appreciating it, as I am working multiple jobs. My only scheduled day off from the start of August until the end of October was Labor Day. (I did get sick last week and call out one day, but considering I was absolutely miserable, I'm not sure I should count it. :P ) Fun times.

My sister is engaged. I like the guy a lot, but I'm so not looking forward to being in the wedding. I'm going to do it, because she wants me to and it is her day, but I wish I didn't have to.

I guess that's it for now. I'll do books and television and movies and stuff on other days. This was thrilling, I know. :P

I know, I haven't updated in awhile. And I have things I could talk about, whether it is RL or television or whatever, but somehow I never get around to it.

This is basically just a plea for some good vibes. As one of my kitties, Eliot, was "off" when I woke up Friday morning, but we were short-staffed and I couldn't afford to lose a day of work, so I went in, instead of taking him to the vet right away. He got worse, so I got him to the first appointment today and it turns out that he had a urinary tract blockage. Which is what killed my other kitty, Midnight. He had the surgery ($500 that I really couldn't afford, but how do I not?) and he is home now, but he peed on my bed instead of in the litter box when I was babysitting tonight, and I think peeing in other places is not supposed to be a good thing. (But it wasn't bloody, and it was a decent amount, so maybe that is a good thing? IDK.)

Anyway, I'm really worried, as I can't handle losing one of my kitties right now, so if any of you get a spare second to send some good wishes his way, I would very much appreciate it.

Happy Dyngus Day everyone!

(And no, it is not an April Fool's thing. It is an actual holiday. That my sister's fiancee got us into, as he is Polish-American. It is mostly just fun to say, though. :D )