Well, since my doctor retired and Doug Ford fucked up the healthcare system and it’s a goddamn three year wait for a new one, I guess it’s off to the clinic for a renewal of all my drugs.
Wonderful.
Fucking. Wonderful.
What a waste of a Saturday morning.
Eat shit, Dougie.
Target: 1100 words
Written: 92 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
Comics: Cyber Force v2 24-25, Ripclaw v2 6, Cyber Force Annual 2
Music: International Superhits!, Green DayI feel like I’m going through one right now.
And I literally went through one this morning.
I am trying not to give up, but damn. It’s so hard.
I can’t even bring myself to submit anywhere. Even though every single thing I’ve ever written has been accepted and published somewhere, since I first decided to start sending them out (minus comics – I don’t have an artist to work with and the one with whom I’ve considered working in the – whose style is ideal for Romance #1, is entirely unreliable), I can’t bring myself to do it.
I worry.
Get Back Again was banned for, you know, being told from the bad guy’s point of view, and since that view was super misogynist, it was considered ban-worthy. Like, have these people ever read fiction?
Good fiction doesn’t insist all their villains act like good people.
It’s kind of the whole point.
Anyway, fuck it.
Who wants some?
Target: 1100 words
Written: 1050 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
Comics: Cyber Force v2 16, Cyber Force Origins 3, Ballistic 3, Velocity 1
Music: Instrument Soundtrack, FugaziFun weekend. Maple farm, sugar shack, Mexican food.
Diarrhea.
Shit.
Target: 1100 words
Written: 165 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Trust Me, I'm Lying, Ryan Holiday
Comics: Cyber Force v2 7-8, Codename Strykeforce 7-8
Music: Indestructible, Rancid (fact: there has never been a bad Tim Armstrong song)I tried to get my blood pressure stuff updated, but man, those online doctors are useless.
They’re nice enough, but they can do nothing for you.
So, I spent the day getting my van maintenanced instead. I tried the “walk-in” heart health clinic, but that appears to be a wash as well.
Fuck me.
I do not want to sit at the clinic for twelve hours.
Fucking Doug Ford.
Fucking Conservatives.
Target: 1100 words
Written: 148 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Lost City Of Z, David Grann
Comics: Cyber Force v2 2-3, Codename Strykeforce 1, Cyber Force & WildC.A.T.S. - Killer Instinct 3
Music: In Violet Light, The Tragically HipI’m taking the day.
It’s all been a bit much lately; it seems like everyone and everything is at odds.
Plus, I need an oil change, tire rotation and blood pressure medication renewal, so that means clinics and garages and money I don’t have.
Fuck.
Target: 1100 words
Written: 152 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Lost City Of Z, David Grann
Comics: Cyber Force 0, Cyber Force/WildC.A.T.S. - Killer Instinct 1-2, Cyber Force v2 1
Music: In Utero, NirvanaFor a couple of days to see if that would clear up the insane and near constant bouts of lightheadedness I was getting, having eliminated so many other possibilities over the past six months.
And it worked.
Unfortunately, my blood pressure skyrocketed, settling into a cool 150/95 throughout the whole day yesterday. At that rate, it’s headaches and head rushes anyway, so I’m back on the drugs and I’m down to a more manageable 130/85 or thereabouts.
It sucks not having a doctor, so I guess it’s time to book a visit to the clinic, and see what I can do about switching things up, because this sucks.
Sucks hard.
And not in the way you’d like it to suck.
That way’s actually fun.
Target: 1100 words
Written: 371 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Comics: New Shadowhawk 6-7, Shadowhunt 1-2
Music: In On The Kill Taker, Fugazi (my first concert was these guys and I was blown the fuck away)In the midst of an experiment in which I’m testing whether it’s my medication that’s making me so lightheaded, feeling so shitty.
It’s not working well.
Target: 1100 words
Written: 81 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Proof Of Collusion, Seth Abramson (nice to fill in the details on what we already knew; too bad about his sense of optimism at the end. Like Republicans were ever going to hold him or any one of them accountable, the corrupt, grifting, wannabe fascists)
Comics: New Shadowhawk 3-5, Shadowhawks Of Legends 1
Music: In My Head, Black FlagIt’s been a tough week. It probably sounds like whining (and it is, to an extent, because I’m not the one with the broken wrist), but man, picking up the slack this week has thrown me right off.
Our chores are usually split; adding three-quarters of what someone else does to maintain our daily lives on top of an already decent load?
It’s a lot.
It does make you appreciate what the other person does, I’ll tell you that.
Free time is over, at least for the next few weeks.
Target: 1100 words
Written: 259 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman
Comics: Batman/The Maxx: Arkham Dreams 2-5
Music: In 3-D, Weird Al Yankovic (anyone else see that movie? Fucking brilliant - I adore both Weird Al and Daniel Radcliffe)I’m falling apart. Ironically, it’s not the one I slipped and banged yesterday. It’s the one I got massaged, which may have actually made it worse.
Target: 1100 words
Written: 739 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley
Comics: The Maxx 32-34, Altered Image 1
Music: Imagine, John LennonWell, that was a fun day. Started well enough; turkey in the oven, potatoes scraped and cut and ready to be mashed, Groundhog Day queued up on Prime…
Then we took the dogs for a walk.
We should have turned back when we first started slipping, but no, we’re idiots, so we continued and sure enough, a fall turns to a hospital trip and a broken wrist.
The state of health care in this province is disgusting. I’m glad Doug Ford called an early election, so I can give him a big old middle finger on the ballot.
Cons, man. Describes them perfectly.
Target: 1100 words
Written: 273 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley
Comics: The Maxx 26-28, Friends Of Maxx 2
Music: I'll Stick Around, Foo Fighters