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July 7th, 2009
01:09 am - Aliens and Alienation
My gods, what an event! Extraordinarily worth the drive to Bristol and sunburn for! ( Regency froth under the cut )
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June 30th, 2009
12:22 am
I have come to the conclusion that I am both horrifically open to emotional blackmail and not all that bad at doing that to other people when I let myself.
One day, I'm going to grow up and grow myself a fucking spine.
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June 26th, 2009
10:34 pm - Sleep lab
Very glad to be back in the real world after two nights of just work and hospital. It makes the world strangely colourless, lacking in texture. Or maybe that was just lack of sleep. I hope they got a decent load of data from me, but I'm not that sure they will have. I was wired up literally almost everywhere; head bristling like a porcupine with EEG electrodes, a heart monitor, legs, arms, even my fingers (which made typing a bastard), and a respiration monitor which was like nothing more than a hairpin up my nose. Eventually managed to fall asleep round about 2am; woken up at 2.40am by a fire alarm and didn't get back to bed until 3am. Then had a bunch of very unpleasant dreams - apparently my subconscious has read too much about torture by electricity - before being woken by the nurse taking blood at 6.30am.
I'm glad to have done something FOR SCIENCE, but I'm also glad to be getting paid for this one!
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June 22nd, 2009
10:40 am - Ugh
Well, went to the Western and the doc there told me he thought the ear inflammation was secondary to something to do with my teeth, most likely a dental abscess. So I have an emergency appointment down there at 11.40am. Getting down there should be extremely fun, given that it's just too damn painful to eat, so that the drugs are making me extremely woozy whenever I stand up...
Ech, all part of the merry-go-round... If I need the tooth out, I'm not sure whether to hope for a general or not. Yes because I'm a wimp, no because I suspect it'd put me out of action for quite a while...
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June 21st, 2009
01:14 pm - Crap
Well, finally phoned NHS 24, being essentially unable to eat and drink without immense pain, and the codeine no longer seeming to work. Got sent off to the Western.
This is really not how I would have chosen to spend my solstice.
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June 18th, 2009
11:30 am - Went to Doctor...
...have antibiotics, was patronised, feel like shit, holding a hot water bottle to the side of my head to try and make the pain go away again :(
Excusing the lovely ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) squintywitch 's presence, why is it that every doctor you visit immediately makes you feel as though you've wandered into a casualty clearing station with a hangnail? I wouldn't even mind so much if it was a hospital, but it's a bloody GP, things like ear infections are surely a pretty large part of their remit?
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June 17th, 2009
05:45 pm - Mildly Worried
Whole left side of face hurts badly, including ear, throat and sinuses. Feeling rather dizzy too.
This ain't too good...
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June 12th, 2009
02:51 am - In which Claire and Mark finally set a date
Ladies and gentlemen, the wedding is set for 8th May 2010.
If Matt P moves next year's Maelstrom to May, I will personally kill him.
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June 3rd, 2009
02:36 am - Celebrations and Complications
Well, we got the brochure and we went around Eastwood House and looked at all the prices, and it all looks to be affordable. Keep your fingers crossed, but the wedding should finally be going ahead in somewhat less than a year. It was so amazing to see it finally coming over the horizon as tangible event, one I can quite easily picture going ahead. Still got costs and exact numbers and whether I shall in fact end up taking Mark's surname to sort out, but it's quite definitely appear'd on the horizon.
And that, gentle reader, is a rather wonderful thing to be able to keep my eyes on at the moment, as so many other things seem to be proving infinitely complicated. It's bad enough of work, but at least that's expected. I admit, I'm rather upset about the fact that a variety of things related to the Nest are all proving horribly torturous.
As soon as I think I have something sorted out, it seems that five other things bubble up behind my back, and, at the risk of being emo, it's getting rather upsetting that I'm making rather a lot of effort to try and sort things out so that they are good for the largest number of people without upsetting any individual, and yet each situation inevitably just seems to bring grief of some kind my way. I don't mind IC politics - actually, I would love more complex plotlines in the Nest - but OOC all they do is make your social life uncomfortable.
Still. Only two more days of work, then Maelstrom. It's rather worrying when torturously complicated IC politics look a bit of a rest...
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May 27th, 2009
04:08 pm - Kitfroth
Mark and I have spent the day looking for various components to build him a facet costume.
Wanting to cover your boyfriend in latex and paint him up isn't all that abnormal, right?
In other news, the process of acquiring kit (or, until I get paid, drooling over kit I can't yet pay for) for Aliens and Alienation continues apace. Thanks to squintywitch 's ingenuity, the basics of mine aren't too bad, but there's still the process finding the correct jackets/spencers/accessories/shoes/shawls, not to mention makeup etc for me, while going through stuff to find a jacket, trousers and shoes of the correct period for Mark is possibly going to be an expensive and frustrating process. Rewarding, for Mr-Darcy-fantasy reasons, though ;)
I can't wait for this!
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03:42 pm - Maelstrom dreams
More bloody Sas dreams. Last night, Olrich was alive again...
I'm more than a little worried what the sleep study is finally going to get out of me...
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12:39 pm - Odd
There's the weird sinus/tooth/extreme pain thing in one side of my head. That's bad. And odd.
I'm off for five days. That very good, but odd. Maelstrom DT results came out without fucking with Sas all that much. That's good, but very odd.
My house is a tip. That's bad, but not odd at all.
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May 22nd, 2009
08:09 pm - The Job Interview
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THEY MADE ME DO MAAAAAAAAAAAAATHS!!!!!!!!!!!
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May 15th, 2009
12:42 am - ...and breathe...
Well, the ksf meeting went okay. Laura, my manager, doesn't seem too worried, for now at least, and she's put some of the training I've been asking for in as an official request, which is heartening. She's setting up a meeting with Garry (my boss), her and me next Wednesday. It's supposed to be all informal and constructive. We'll see.
Stress sucks. Done a good few hours of overtime this week to fit in all the extra work this week. Have had near on two months of horrifically upset stomaches, now got headaches to add to that, and I appear to be back on the three-week period cycle again. My mother wants me to go to my GP and ask for antidepressants. They were the only thing that worked for her, to be fair. I don't really want to. I may suffer some spectacular lows, but I get some amazing highs too. Then, of course, I have days of spiralling guilt and badness for no particular reason, and I think it wouldn't be so bad.
The big thing to take my mind off all of this is that Mark and I have both booked Aliens and Alienation! Poor squintywitch has been getting the end of an immense amount of frockfroth, but she does deserve it, churning the lovely creations out as she does!
I'm also booked to take part in a sleep study. I only hope they let me out again after two nights of recording my brain...
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May 6th, 2009
09:56 pm - Possible Light at the End of Tunnel...
Guh. Work is driving me insane at the moment. We have an IRMER inspection tomorrow, so of course the day to do all this essential paperwork was clearly today. I have had 18 people trying to make their problems my problems all day.
I must have looked like I was about to set something on fire, as one of my many bosses asked if I was doing okay 6 seperate times over the course of the day. Two of them were after I started swearing at the photocopier in German, to be fair.
The best news, given all of this, is that I have an interview for a post as a Trainee Pharmacy Techinician on May 22nd! It's a two-year training post that would get me an actual qualification, the equivilent of an HND, it starts at Band 4 (about £17,500 a year) and it would be actual proper healthcare work, actually helping people and being of actual use, as opposed to utter spoddom!
Please cross all of your fingers (and any other appendages you have to hand) for me. I really, really, really want this one.
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April 24th, 2009
12:21 am - Telling it like it is...
Well, I finally managed to watch statementimages.co.uk/photographers/statementphotographer/lrp-live-role-playing/ and I have to admit, I'm highly impressed. Finally, someone managed to do a piece on LARP and catch something of the spirit of it, the cool of it. The thing you see in your head. Just a touch, rather than going for the "sad geeks in a field".
Well done, Orev, you came across particularly well. I'm just sorry I didn't get a chance to give the potted history of Sas!
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April 14th, 2009
07:49 am - EPIC!
Well, that was Maelstrom, at it's most ridiculous no-I-don't-want-to-go-back-to-the-real-world-please-don't-make-me-how-can-I-do-that? still buzzed utterly intense. I am awake again after around 6 hours sleep and I don't think I'll be getting much more sleep until I've calmed down.
I don't know how much I can say while still in Sas head, other than that, despite everything, that was a weekend of utter epic fucking win (ooc). I have never been pushed so much to the limit as a character, using literally every one of my skills multiple times, crying real tears, just about literally bleeding real blood. Each and every one of you guys was a huge fucking honour and a privelege to roleplay with. You were exceptional. I haven't even dealt with about half the stuff I know I'm going to have to IC and I don't know how much more I can say until I do.
It was beyond amazing. You are all win.
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April 7th, 2009
06:11 pm - ....
I feel extremely odd.
I also just bought 12 bottles of schnapps.
These two facts are not related.
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April 2nd, 2009
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