Last night I might have slept close to eight hours, the most I've slept at a stretch in weeks. And I feel much better. All it required was having my Seroquel script refilled. I see my doctor on the 19th, and we're going to talk about Lunesta (Seroquel isn't actually a sleep aid; that's just a fortunate side-effect I've stumbled upon). Probably it's not couth, or particularly prudent, or even interesting to talk of one's pills online. Probably I shouldn't do it. Casual excessive disclosure is a dangerous new phenomenon, and I ought know better.
I'm not at all surprised that LJ can't spell couth. The whole concept has likely fled from the world.
The weather is grey and cold, and more snow is on the way.
Yesterday went pretty much as planned. I signed the signature sheets for Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2. With Spooky's help, I made it through the galley pages for "The Collier's Venus (1893)" and sent the corrections off to
ellen_datlow. There was quite a bit of email.
Spooky figured out how to block all those goddamn idiotic "-ville" game apps in my Facebook account, ending a daily deluge of bullshit.
Today, back to work on The Drowning Girl: A Memoir.
I've left the house three days running. Yesterday, we went by Staples (I needed cardboard file boxes), and the pet shop (cats needed wet food), and the market (dinner), and, finally, the drugstore (chemist really does sound much better). Not an interesting trip Outside, but I'm beginning to understand that if one is to venture Outside on a regular basis, one must also accept that most of those trips will be uninteresting.
Last night, much needed rp in Insilico, Molly and Grendel. And then a little WoW after I took the pill to make me sleepy. Oh, and, in case Blizzard's reading (of course, they aren't), giant cockroaches and giant maggots do not isopods and sea slugs make, respectively.
The current eBay auctions end in a couple of hours, so please have a look. Bid if you are able.
Any thoughts on "—30—"?
I'm not at all surprised that LJ can't spell couth. The whole concept has likely fled from the world.
The weather is grey and cold, and more snow is on the way.
Yesterday went pretty much as planned. I signed the signature sheets for Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2. With Spooky's help, I made it through the galley pages for "The Collier's Venus (1893)" and sent the corrections off to
ellen_datlow. There was quite a bit of email.Spooky figured out how to block all those goddamn idiotic "-ville" game apps in my Facebook account, ending a daily deluge of bullshit.
Today, back to work on The Drowning Girl: A Memoir.
I've left the house three days running. Yesterday, we went by Staples (I needed cardboard file boxes), and the pet shop (cats needed wet food), and the market (dinner), and, finally, the drugstore (chemist really does sound much better). Not an interesting trip Outside, but I'm beginning to understand that if one is to venture Outside on a regular basis, one must also accept that most of those trips will be uninteresting.
Last night, much needed rp in Insilico, Molly and Grendel. And then a little WoW after I took the pill to make me sleepy. Oh, and, in case Blizzard's reading (of course, they aren't), giant cockroaches and giant maggots do not isopods and sea slugs make, respectively.
The current eBay auctions end in a couple of hours, so please have a look. Bid if you are able.
Any thoughts on "—30—"?
- Current Location:Olympia Undae
- Current Mood:
okay - Current Music:Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet, "Dear Sweet Filthy World"
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i gather, from the way dancy reacted to klonapin, that you don't like it much either. have you tried a very very low dose? i take about 1/6 of a pill every night--1/4 if i'm stressed. i still wake up a lot, but i fall asleep and fall back asleep when i wake up. i guess i also don't know if you can take it along with your current meds...
good luck with all that!
meh, if people can talk about headaches and cancer and tyleol and chemo, we can talk about head meds, too!
This go back to, "Just because we can, doesn't mean we should."
i gather, from the way dancy reacted to klonapin, that you don't like it much either. have you tried a very very low dose? i take about 1/6 of a pill every night--1/4 if i'm stressed. i still wake up a lot, but i fall asleep and fall back asleep when i wake up. i guess i also don't know if you can take it along with your current meds...
I've been on Klonopin, at varying dosages, since 1990. But it's of no help with sleep. Quite the opposite.
Overall, a wonderful issue of the Digest. Thank you!
What you said about Holly Black the other day, "She gives good fay" applies to you as well.
Here, I shall grin.
I don't really give a rat's ass that the world can see I'm on Trazadone and Nucynta and... but the hallucinogens seem to provoke too much idiocy.
It's not I care. What they think, I mean. I just worry about it being turned against me.
I concur with this: chemist really does sound much better; and I am going to try to start using it. Eventually people will get it, right?
Well, Brits already do. But Americans are hopeless on the matter.
For the Horde!!
It helps me to know that successful people like yourself take the same meds and suffer the same symptoms as I do. In my job, I've found that anything you say can and will be held against you at a later time by clients. I imagine fame is more so.
This, of course, is what I fear. But I do see your point.
There's that Placebo song...
I'm glad you are getting out and about, but I think your agoraphobia has come to visit me.
If you have the inclination, it's an easy trap to fall into. Especially when your psychiatrist says it's okay.
(Another aspect of prudence would be if you were revealing sufficient information that it could be used against you in a non-rhetorical manner, such as working out that it would be possible to burglarize your house because your sleeping pills would render you insensate at a particular time. But that would be an astonishing level of work for a common burglar. I’d be more concerned with the kind of over-sharing to which Please Rob Me was calling attention.)
My policy on disclosure is a bit more reserved than the XKCD one: if I’m expressing an opinion about an employer that might make them look bad, it goes in a friends-locked post. If an employer might decide not to hire me because of my political opinions, though, or anything else they can glean from my public persona, I really don’t want to work there anyway.
Discussing how one maintains good health is generally considered polite conversation, and I don’t see why that shouldn’t extend to medication.
Not when I was growing up in Alabama...
But keeping things like that in friends-locked posts where the boors can’t even see it saves the hassle in the first place.
I've never trusted friend's locked posts not to escape, so I mostly haven't bothered with it.
(Another aspect of prudence would be if you were revealing sufficient information that it could be used against you in a non-rhetorical manner, such as working out that it would be possible to burglarize your house because your sleeping pills would render you insensate at a particular time. But that would be an astonishing level of work for a common burglar. I’d be more concerned with the kind of over-sharing to which Please Rob Me was calling attention.)
Yep. That's what I don't do. Or provide enough information that the Dagon cultists can find me.
And I have just received my Christmas Presents from the snowy North of England. Looking forward to reading The Ammonite Violin and to The Red Tree (again). Just had to tell someone - and will get around to reading the Will Shetterly, Emma Bull and Simon R. Green books too (his Nightside books, a guilty pleasure). I hope this has been long and rambly enough to send you into a deep sleep.
It is very uncouth for LJ not to be able to spell couth.
Someday I will compile a list of words that LJ can not spell (including LiveJournal).
Looking forward to reading The Ammonite Violin
I hope you like it.
Did writing the story dismiss demons?
Did writing the story dismiss demons?
Nope.
I adored "30". Traipsing around the seedier side of Providence with you as a guide. Your willingness to share your beliefs about your weaknesses and your fears is most appreciated.
Spooky is correct. Stop smoking and don't start again. If you read the documents I read everyday, you would never touch another cigarette. We'd like to have you with us for many years to come.
Cheers
Something is wrong with the world.
Been saying that for years. No one ever listens.
I adored "30". Traipsing around the seedier side of Providence with you as a guide. Your willingness to share your beliefs about your weaknesses and your fears is most appreciated.
Thank you.
Spooky is correct.
I know....