Getting easier again
May. 9th, 2014 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett1. I really, really love going to concerts at the Southbank by myself, as it turns out, and then getting to wheel along the river in the dark. And I arrived late because of STRESS and DOOM, but along the way I've now visited the rooftop garden above the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and while I missed the first bit of Prokofiev, I got to listen to the second and the encore was a tiny but fantastic piece of Stravinsky and the second Prokofiev was lovely. Also, there was tolerable Sibelius. I was astonished. (Here's the concert deets.)
2. That One Gent tracked down a source of properly decaffeinated coffee that, I am told, still tastes like coffee. This means I have bought a bag of the stuff and now I get to make tiramisu it is safe for me to consume.
3. I have a huge pile of awesome books to keep me occupied over the four-day mass spec run coming up. (Courtesy ofrmc28, two Anuja Chauhan via deepad's AC Reading Club; Ella Caria Delonia's Waterlily; Octavia Butler's Bloodchild; Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist; Malinda Lo's Huntress; S Bear Bergman's Blood, Marriage, Wine and Glitter; and then TOL asked if I'd mind fail-checking Emily Gee's The Sentinel Mage... and as and when I finish all that I've the Armitage translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I've been looking forward to reading since I bought it years ago!)
4. I finally persuaded my GP practice to agree that sodium bicarbonate ear drops were warranted, and two days in my ears are already feeling vastly better. (As people who have spent time with me recently will be aware, I have spent most of the past five weeks with massively reduced hearing. I am one of those lucky, lucky folk who occasionally get buildup of wax such as to Cause Issues. This further means that if you spend time with me - at least over the next ten days or so - and you haven't already acclimatised, I am relying on lip-reading much harder than normal.)
5. I shuffled stuff around in the freezer such that the banana-peach muffins have been tidied away into it. At some point in the next few days I'll get around to transferring them to a freezer bag, and as and when we've cleared space I'll move them from the Pit of Horrors to the smaller indoor freezer.
6. My baby brother is coming to visit me! (... and is running the Edinburgh Marathon in just over a fortnight's time; he's fundraising for Bowel Cancer UK; we know that I don't carry the family gene that results in something like an 80% lifetime chance of developing bowel cancer - it's the gene that did for my great-granddad directly, my Grossmutti indirectly, and my mum just had her five-year all-clear - but I don't think he's been tested yet.)
7. Also, he has forwarded my replacement debit card. SOON I WILL BE ABLE TO BUY THINGS AGAIN AND IT WILL BE GOOD. (I lost my wallet on Monday through staggering carelessness probably arising in part due to the meds shenanigans. I am astonished by how well I'm coping.)
8. I'm genuinely looking forward to the four solid days of teaching I have coming up - one on the GIMP, one on Inkscape, two on Python for statistics - and it's mostly not coz the money'll help.
9. My counsellor got in touch. I responded within hours. (This is really good for me, in terms of e-mail.) I am possibly going to have a session next week.
10. ELEMENTARY FINALE TOMORROW AAAAAAAAAAAH.
2. That One Gent tracked down a source of properly decaffeinated coffee that, I am told, still tastes like coffee. This means I have bought a bag of the stuff and now I get to make tiramisu it is safe for me to consume.
3. I have a huge pile of awesome books to keep me occupied over the four-day mass spec run coming up. (Courtesy of
rmc28, two Anuja Chauhan via deepad's AC Reading Club; Ella Caria Delonia's Waterlily; Octavia Butler's Bloodchild; Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist; Malinda Lo's Huntress; S Bear Bergman's Blood, Marriage, Wine and Glitter; and then TOL asked if I'd mind fail-checking Emily Gee's The Sentinel Mage... and as and when I finish all that I've the Armitage translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I've been looking forward to reading since I bought it years ago!)4. I finally persuaded my GP practice to agree that sodium bicarbonate ear drops were warranted, and two days in my ears are already feeling vastly better. (As people who have spent time with me recently will be aware, I have spent most of the past five weeks with massively reduced hearing. I am one of those lucky, lucky folk who occasionally get buildup of wax such as to Cause Issues. This further means that if you spend time with me - at least over the next ten days or so - and you haven't already acclimatised, I am relying on lip-reading much harder than normal.)
5. I shuffled stuff around in the freezer such that the banana-peach muffins have been tidied away into it. At some point in the next few days I'll get around to transferring them to a freezer bag, and as and when we've cleared space I'll move them from the Pit of Horrors to the smaller indoor freezer.
6. My baby brother is coming to visit me! (... and is running the Edinburgh Marathon in just over a fortnight's time; he's fundraising for Bowel Cancer UK; we know that I don't carry the family gene that results in something like an 80% lifetime chance of developing bowel cancer - it's the gene that did for my great-granddad directly, my Grossmutti indirectly, and my mum just had her five-year all-clear - but I don't think he's been tested yet.)
7. Also, he has forwarded my replacement debit card. SOON I WILL BE ABLE TO BUY THINGS AGAIN AND IT WILL BE GOOD. (I lost my wallet on Monday through staggering carelessness probably arising in part due to the meds shenanigans. I am astonished by how well I'm coping.)
8. I'm genuinely looking forward to the four solid days of teaching I have coming up - one on the GIMP, one on Inkscape, two on Python for statistics - and it's mostly not coz the money'll help.
9. My counsellor got in touch. I responded within hours. (This is really good for me, in terms of e-mail.) I am possibly going to have a session next week.
10. ELEMENTARY FINALE TOMORROW AAAAAAAAAAAH.
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Date: 2014-05-09 01:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-09 03:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-09 04:05 am (UTC)Uhhh...represent. *fistbump*
Tomorrow I finally go in for the funky ear-lavage thing, following which I should be able to hear out of my right ear as per normal. Hoping that your ears continue on the up-and-up as well. =)
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Date: 2014-05-09 01:19 pm (UTC)Wax lyrical
Date: 2014-05-09 07:37 am (UTC)It looks like a really good sculpting material for making interesting little things.
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Date: 2014-05-09 12:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-09 01:00 pm (UTC)If you have questions I'm very willing to try being helpful!