katster's closet

me: mutters about the yummy and delicious eyeball that didn't want to come out and be ate.
friend: ?
me: is there something there you didn't understand? ;)
me: finally got it out. For I am a dexterous monkey and have opposable thumbs.
friend: Yeah that whole last sentence you sent! :P
me: ...you mean you don't normally hear about yummy and delicious eyeballs? ;)
friend: No.
me: what planet are you from?
friend: Earth.
me: You can't be. 'Cause I'm from Earth.
friend: I am too.
me: and you've never heard of yummy and delicious eyeballs?
friend: Nope.
me: What backwards culture were you raised in? ;)
friend: :P

...at which point I had to admit it was a gummy eyeball. (Which, weirdly enough, do not trigger my eye squick. Don't ask me why.)

In other news, I have antibiotics and codeine cough syrup, so maybe I'll feel well enough tomorrow to pick back up the pace on the Nano novel. The official diagnosis is definite outer ear and sinus infections, probable bronchitis, and possible middle ear infections. And my chest hurts from coughing so much. So I think I'm going to go sit in the bathtub with The Great Deluge s'more and then take some wonderful cough syrup and go to bed, free from hack hack hacking.

15,630 / 50,000 (31.3%)

Zokutou is back, yay!

Anyway, I slacked yesterday. I wanted to listen to the Cal game, which was right in the middle of meetup, and so I slacked, but I had slack in the schedule. Today I wrote more.

zibblsnrt has jokingly asked me if I'm doing NaNoWriFo. ...with it being only five days in, and I'm already at 15k, a two week 50k binge is entirely possible. I don't know if I'll stress myself out to try, but if I do, it could be fun.

There's new stuff in katsterwrites, and tomorrow I'll put up the beginning of Chapter 2, which is punctuated by Finnegan vs. the hurricane. (I'm thinking of changing that -- I'm using hurricane because that's what they're called in my dialect of English, but I considered cyclone and typhoon. None of them really seem to have the right feel for high fantasy, though.) Anyway, Chapter 2 is dragging a bit. It's like, c'mon characters, hurry up and get to idyllic fantasy village where the children can grow up.

In other news, I have a cold. And now my ears are plugged. And it's been two weeks, and I'm pretty much only functional by liberal application of sudafed, cough syrup, cough drops, and kill headache dead medication. And my ears are still plugged, and I can't hear well in ambient settings -- which means, while I might be able to hear with a phone up to my ear or with my headphones on, I can't hear a person trying to converse with me when I'm nearly standing in front of them. I think it's doctor time tomorrow.

Other than that, I'm doing okay. How about you, LJ world?