A Little Flare (Up)

There was some good news and some bad news for me today—The bad news: Today my stomach hurts, I am running a fever, my brain feels cloudy, my muscles ache, my joints are swollen, stiff and arthritic, and I can barely stay awake. The good news: I feel ten times better than I did yesterday and a hundred times better than I felt on Wednesday. Yes it was a lupus flare up, and was quite a big one, at least for me.

I have no doubt that my minor case of discoid lupus has become systemic lupus erythematosus as the doctors had told me it might. Of course, like an idiot, I didn’t go to the doctor to be sure. The only thing I felt like doing on Wednesday was sleeping, and the last two days I went to work despite feeling awful. (I am trying to save up sick days for when the twins are born). So there is no diagnosis for sure, I am going to have to force myself to go to the doctor next time I have a flare up.

I guess I can always be grateful that this flare up only lasted a couple of days, and that, judging from that last few years of discoid lupus, they will be rare. (Crossing my fingers)

I ended up breaking my new year’s resolution to write at least 400 words a day. Yesterday my knuckles were so swollen I couldn’t type, but it was leap day so I am not sure if I have to count it. I mean it isn’t like its really a day. Its kind of a pretend day that a bunch of super smart math guys added to the calender so that we wouldn't have christmas in June. Anyway, despite this set back I am growing closer to the end of Blood Plague aka Blood Plague War aka Chronicles of the Blood Plague aka the book I can’t seem. It was super annoying to take a day off when the end is in sight.

Of course I did get a chance to watch most of Season 3 of The League, so it wasn’t all a waste. I found a website online where I could watch it for free, which kind of sounds shady to me, but I figure the network would sue and get them to take it off line if they were really upset about it. Hopefully if it is an illegal site they will take pity on the poor lupus stricken writer who couldn’t type and not arrest me.

This season of the show doesn’t have much fantasy football but it does have “vinegar strokes”, and “zipper fairies” every episode seems to be more about sex than fantasy football, but it is still funny. It just seems to have lost a little bit of its focus, a problem that I have no doubt they will fix before the season is over. The writers of the show are a little crude, and sometimes they like to beat you over the head with the plot, but they are pretty good writers.

Clash of the Geeks

Just wanted to let everyone know about the Clash of the Geeks anthology. Here is the blurb from the website:

Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi and Subterranean Press are proud to announce the publication of Clash of the Geeks, a special and fantastical electronic chapbook featuring stories by Wheaton, Scalzi, New York Times bestseller Patrick Rothfuss, Norton Award winner and Hugo Best Novel nominee Catherynne M. Valente, Hugo and Nebula Award nominee Rachel Swirsky and others, for the benefit of the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America. The chapbook is free to download, but voluntary payment is strongly encouraged, via Paypal or by tax-deductible donation forms, both linked to later in this entry. All proceeds from this chapbook will go to the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America. Please enjoy the stories, link your friends to this page — and give!

Here is a link where you can download the book for free, or make a donation to the Lupus Foundation.

Linky-poo

As someone with a mild form of Lupus this is a charity that is very personal to me, and I encourage everyone to donate or at least read some of the stories. I mean how often do you get to read about a unicorn-pegasus-kitten aka Unigaten, Kigarn, Pegicten...hmmm I'll work on the names a bit. Anyway it's pretty cool.

Feeling Better

I am feeling better already after only one day of antibiotics. It is just amazing how a much a sinus infection can effect the way you feel. For the first time in a couple of weeks I actually feel like writing!

In a side note my humorous fantasy story, Henery the Hero, has been accepted for publication in Golden Visions ezine. I'm off to write or maybe play the xbox for a few minutes and then write. Procrastination is a friend of mine...

Going to the Doctor

So I went to the doctor today. I have sinus infection, which is the reason for my fatigue and stuffy nose. There is a strong possibility that I have high blood pressure and the doctor thinks that I have discoid lupus.

When I heard lupus I kind freaked out but apparently the kind I have isn't so bad. While still an incurable disease, this kind of lupus is mostly just a reoccurring skin rash, and I am allergic to the sun. It is also causing an early onset of arthritis which is why my knees have been hurting so much lately. So my general feeling of poopyness and lack of motivation when it comes to writing finally have a cause.

But on the good side with my allergy to the sun finally developing I am hoping my other vampric abilities will soon manifest themselves. Oh yes, the league of vampire librarians will soon rule the world! Our secret plans are bearing fruit. Then the world will know true fear as we organize the entire world by last name and title, hahahahaha...or um...forget that last part. That must be the fever talking.

No. Really, the national library conference is just a place where we go to network and learn the latest in library technology. There is no secret room for dark rituals, or covenants with shadowy evil beings of immense power. The dewy decimal system is just a way to organize books, it isn’t a form of ritual worship and magic that brings unimaginable power to the library staff. And of course it would be silly to think that we take the souls of patrons that don’t return their books, why would we want those silly old things?