So I actually have a writing job that *pays money*. In US dollars even. It’s a one-off software review job, freelance, and it probably won’t even be publicly available (the company seems to provide software reviews as a service to small to medium businesses) but it’s work, with the possibility of this becoming [...]
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.
For the last four years, ever since the third trimester of her pregnancy, the Artist has been wondering why she couldn’t hold a pen without trembling, why she couldn’t think, why she was always cold despite constantly sweating…the list goes on and on. The process of finding answers has been a long [...]
…I get to keep my thumb, without surgery. At least, that’s the thought. If the symptoms haven’t completely gone away in a week, I go back to check, but it’s looking good at the moment.
I fell asleep with the lights on, and woke up a couple times during the night to check for angry red streaks. None of those. But when I finally fully woke up, I took another look at my thumb.
My thumb, which had just “normal trauma,” some slight sprain or something when I went to bed, [...]
So.
We’re moving. To Ohio. The Artist is already there, I’m going at the end of January. More on this later.
This involves lots of packing. I have done most of the packing. I have gotten stuff out of the house. I’m pretty much finished, which is good, since the rental [...]
So. I am having to resist the impulse to crawl under my desk and hide.
One roommate has gone batshit insane, and has moved out. Apparently I didn’t keep the parts of the house that no one regularly used, and the kitchen, which realistically only I used, spic and span enough for his tastes. Never mind [...]
The Artist’s health has been poor for a while. Constant pain. Alternating insomnia and near narcolepsy. A tremor that has made it realistically impossible for her to draw. There’s a muscle in her back that has literally been in spasm for over a year; on bad days I can pluck it [...]
Me: I’m sorry, I have to break the no felony rule.
The Artist: Why?
Me: Our problem last Thursday night was identified as a missed step in the deployment, rather than a code problem. But one of the contracted developers is saying we should do a complete new build of the code and test that to pick [...]
231.6
That’s what the scale said when I pushed the button for the first time in months this morning. I stopped weighing myself daily when I started spending most of my time at the Artist’s place, and with everything in storage for a couple months, and then moving and unpacking, I didn’t set it up again [...]
So, the work situation is looking better. Wouldn’t be starting until July, but one offer coming today, and another local company that seemed very interested in me on the phone just now.
The second job would be more fun–by several orders of magnitude–and possibly offer me more creative opportunities. It also starts later, would require insane [...]
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