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prillalar ([personal profile] prillalar) wrote2005-10-28 11:41 am
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On the subject of me

I'm feeling odd today. Off-balance. Not dizzy, but like I'm always falling over. Actually, it feels a lot like this when I'm drunk, only I've had coffee this morning, not Scotch. I keep thinking, I need a reboot.

I wonder how you reboot a person. I suppose a night's sleep might do it, but that's all I can think of. It would be so much handier to be an android and just restart. I could even have a cool start-up chime. And be able to crush cars with my bare hands.

it would be nice to crush things, some days.

In possibly related news, I recently found out that I'm anaemic. Which completely explains why I had been so tired, beat-up, and short of breath for the last few months. I'm on iron supplements, but I've only been taking them for about a week, so I haven't noticed an amazing difference yet.

I bet androids don't get anaemic.

This post seems fairly content-less. I'm trying to be more personal from time to time, since I think I come across as aloof and inaccessible (and possibly scary) and I'd really rather not be. But I feel boring when I do this. Maybe I'm just not emo enough! And it's hard for me to share things about myself.

Actually, though, I think that's one reason I seem to post bits of fic when I have a migraine. I feel lousy and I want some love to make me feel better, but I can't just say, Hey, I'm sick, I need some love! So if I post fic, even really weird fic, I'll get a few comments and feel loved and feel better. (The other reason is that the drugs make me think strange, strange things and the Migraine Pixies make me write them down and post them.)

I bet androids don't get migraines and have trouble opening up to others. But I bet they can't drink Scotch either.

[identity profile] neeteeus.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
*loves*

Also, still need your address. :D

Being anemic sucks. I've been okay for about a year now, but for the five or six years before that I was crazy dangerously low anemic and it made my life hell, esp. in school.

Blergh.

[identity profile] literaryll.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
*offers up lurker love*

[identity profile] weetanya.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Every now and again I desire to live in the future so that my body can be replaceable. I want vats of harvestable organs at every hospital, including new heads, just in case I want different features for a few months. (Actually, that reminds me a lot of the Wizard of Oz -- Ozma of Oz? -- one of the witches had a removeable head. Very grisly for a kid's book.)

Your journaling/writerly voice reminds me of [livejournal.com profile] rubylou. She characterized it once as "good grammar, good spelling, and writing how I'd talk." This means it's more lucid writing than the general mass of us, and simply spawns jealousy. (Just kidding, of course.) Yeah. LJ functions as the conversation in my head too. And the best way to engender discussion is to simply post the word "penis." Sigh.

Migraines: augh. Poor, poor, girl. I've been a life-long victim too. Thank god, they ceased after I stopped coffee during my pregnancy.

[identity profile] bookshop.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)

I've always been terribly cowed by your talent (drabbles! you! best on earth! forever!) but I've never, ever found you aloof or unapproachable. The word I would have for you is visceral. But I've never found that to be a negative trait or something that would make you seem scary.

I need to go on iron supplements and have been meaning to for some time. During the last 4 years I've tried to give blood 3 times and every time, most recently a month ago, my iron count has been too low. The last time was the straw. I'm looking at this as a chance to seriously look at my lifestyle and eating habits and make a change for the better. Besides. Food is kind of fun when you start really thinking about it.

I was reading back over one of your posts from July or so last night. You were talking about Tezuka and encouraging me to hurry up and finish the series so you could talk about it with me. And I had a very, ♥ oh Hal ♥ moment. So. Don't ever feel like you aren't loved. I've always loved having you on my friends list, and I can't anticipate that changing. You know, like ever.
florahart: (bandaids)

[personal profile] florahart 2005-10-28 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
How to reboot?

Well, turn off (squick), then turn on (pr0n).

:D

Ick for the iron supplements. I spent a while being borderline anemic and iron supplements made me all stomach-ouchy. You might want to see about getting some iron-rich real food going, just to try and get there without the supplements--obviously, that's just my opinion and experience.

[identity profile] miko-no-da.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
*loves on to make you feel better even without the fic posting*

They probably can't drink scotch, no. And in most theories about robots, they wouldn't have the creative capacity to write stories, either. You'd be missing out on all kinds of things.

Though being able to reboot and crush cars with your bare hands makes up for a lot...

[identity profile] laurashapiro.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I had to go look up "emo" after reading this post, so it was good for something. ::points to icon::

I reboot by sleeping, but taking a bath is also good. Meditation and/or yoga can act as a restart, but they do take some time. If I need to reboot in a hurry, I'll close my eyes and take three deep mindful breaths. Seems to help.

If you ever posted saying "I'm sick, I need some love," I would give you the love. But I would worry that you were a pod person who had eaten Hal's brain while she was asleep.

[identity profile] laurashapiro.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Good to know. (:

Go home! Go to sleep!

[identity profile] leviosa8.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't like to be an android, but I'd like to have one myself. Instead, I'd like to get rid of useless organs. Pity you can't get rid of the brains, so the migraines have to stay. But the parts of my body that leave me crawling on the ground in pain for a few days every month, ah! if only I didn't have them inside. Naturally, I mean. Surgery has consecuences :D

[identity profile] hlglne.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Be sure you are getting enough vitamin C. You need it to use the iron. Loading up on the mineral isn't much help otherwise, just gets you constipated. Also be sure to get enough folate--deficiency of that has many of the same symptoms as anemia.

[identity profile] spike21.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I would never in a million years classify your posts as aloof (or even sloof, as I originally typed it). I think of you as a warm, wonderful person who needs access to acres of personal space -- something I feel myself, often enough. I am sorry you're sick. Sick is awful. *hugs*

oh, they can drink scotch

[identity profile] kormantic.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
but it makes funny sloshing sounds when they walk around. Also, they don't get hangovers, but also they don't get pleasantly schnockered.

Here, have some delicious spinach quiche to boost your iron, buttercup.

xoxox

[identity profile] ranalore.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you save up drabbles you've written when you don't have a migraine to post when you do for the love? I've been known to do that, because I may want love during a migraine, but I can't write when my head's splodey.

[identity profile] ranalore.livejournal.com 2005-10-31 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't be near a computer for long when I have a migraine, the buzzing and the light makes everything worse. I only manage to save up drabbles like that when I've written a whole bunch of them in a row, so I can post some and have my instant gratification, then dole out the rest at a later date. Doesn't happen very often.