notes

[kaberett]

• I am up to In Sea-Salt Tears in my great big October Daye readthrough. I am having many more feelings about Simon Torquill than I had ever expected to. (Somehow??? I find myself??? with a Simon Torquill ship?????? which I imagine the rest of the fandom got to a VERY long time ago, but maybe that means you will appreciate my bafflement)
• Not unrelatedly, I have books 1 and 3-10 in somewhat battered paperback. (I am... fairly sure book 2 went home with a houseguest one house move ago, alas.) I think that now I have the lot in ebook format I am ready to let these go on to their next home, so if you are in the UK and interested let me know and we can work out how to get 'em to you.
• Pretty sure at this point that my body just (physically and non-metaphorically) rejected this month's anti-CGRP injection about a week in, which I didn't know could happen and which I am not particularly enjoying, as an experience. Got in touch with the headache clinic on Sunday night & got a phone call from them on Monday, with a "get back in touch with a headache diary if Issues Persist", so I am planning to Do That at the end of this weekend.
• A reminded me that I paid for the damn private health insurance, and then nudged me through the self-referral process, so tomorrow morning I have a video appointment with a physio so they can go "... yeah we want to see you in person, thanks" about the plantar fasciitis flare that's been a Problem since the beginning of August. (I have also, today, learned the word metatarsalgia. Helpfully, treatment is pretty much identical to NHS recommendations for plantar fasciitis. Less helpfully, several of the recommendations make things worse; of the remainder, the ones I can do haven't helped, and then there's the ones I can't do or at least am intensely reluctant to, including "icing my feet" and "taking lots of painkillers".)
• We had a surprise smart meter installation yesterday. I am sincerely hoping that my brain will Settle The Fuck Down about being able to See Numbers Go Up given a bit more exposure and a bit less NEW SHINY THING in a context of photosensitivity.
• One for the fountain pen nerds: you know, I am now at the point of actively deliberately seeking out and reading Conid Kingsize reviews and I still can't muster anything more than a "I'm glad you're happy" about them, which I am mildly disconcerted by (as well as, obviously, relieved to not be pining over it).