6 Submissions = 6pts
7820 words written = 2pts (Arrgh!)
TOTAL = 8 points
Bother, I missed Approved for the first time this year, and by 180 freaking words! At least the amount I missed another point by was in the triple digits this month. :P
Still not happy with my writing totals, but I have a couple of stories I'm fairly close to finishing, around attempts to flog Paul and Rory back to work.
Jim and I only travel a few times a year, but two of them were in May this year -- the cruise early in the month, and BayCon at the end. I spent a few hours very early Memorial Day morning in an ER in San Jose (or maybe Santa Clara, I honestly wasn't paying that much attention), having gotten sick again about 2.5 days after the flight down there. This has been happening pretty much every time we fly somewhere for almost a year now, and I've been coming up with all sorts of theories about what might be going on, none of which have suggested solutions. The ER doctor watched me staying rock-still while he talked to me and examined me, holding on to the bed rails and keeping my head perfectly still. I'd been sick since about 3am and moving makes nausea worse, even just turning my head. I told him about the travel thing, and he thinks it's the pressure changes in flying, that something is going squirrely in my inner ear during descent, and 2-3 days later it goes sproing! and I get a nasty case of positional vertigo, with massive nausea. I got some good drugs in my IV and was fine in the cab on the way back to the hotel. He gave me a prescription for what turned out to be generic bonine.
This is pretty awesome. If he's right about what the problem is, and if the bonine works, then I'm basically cured. We're going to WorldCon in Reno in August, and I'll take the bonine for five days or so after the flight out. If I don't get sick, then I'll be celebrating; bonine is cheap and OTC, so if that works then the problem is fixed, yay. Keeping a set of virtual fingers crossed for that one.
I can't believe it's June! It's still cold up in Seattle! :(
Angie, still in sweatpants
4 comments:
180 words? That ain't half bad anyway.
Charles -- thanks. :) It's not half bad, but it's not half good either. And what has me headdesking over it is that I did the same thing in April or maybe March, with editing; I was 26 words away from another Koala point. [laugh/flail] These almosts are getting really annoying.
Angie
It's still better than the Koala Is Disappointed. You'll do better next month. It's extremely difficult to type and puke at the same times, so I think you have a justifiable excuse.
Suzan -- LOL! Yes, there's that. :) And yes, I'm determined to do better in June. [nodnod]
Angie
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