My heartbeat lives in my throat*
Okay wow I've had these Links of the Day accumulating since the start of November. Sorry about that.
Also I should give the obligatory "I ATEN'T DED" wave. Hiya.
And let's talk a bit about stuff that's going on in my life and family.
So the whole family was down with the flu last week. I was the last to fall, and by then my dad had already stayed home two days and my mom had gotten a fever. So cue a couple days of us all sitting like sad little lumps in the living room, not doing much of anything at all. We're all basically better now except for The Cough of Death.
The main thing I want to talk about though it that last Thursday around midday mom got tachycardia. She gets it sometimes, and has for years. This isn't new. It usually wears off during the day or at least overnight. Except apparently the universe decided to say fuck you to usually.
So she stayed tachy Thursday and Friday and on through Saturday. Dad and I were like hospital woman now but she didn't want to go, felt absolutely fine, she kept saying (except for the whole can't move thing), and also she didn't want to go because it was a long weekend due to a religious holiday (Immaculate Conception) and she was worried about what the hospital would be like on a day like that, and also she was worried about the medicine they'd give her to insta-stop the tachy. And Dad and I were like that's a good thing! It needs to stop! but no dice.
Anyway she was still tachy on Sunday, and by then she was getting bored and sick of it all and worried so worried and I was in full watch like a hawk mode since like Friday and that included comfort mode and distraction mode and I will make you all the herbal teas mode. So Monday morning came around and she still was tachy but finally agreed to getting to the hospital.
They stopped the tachy, put her on some saline solution, and kept her waiting around all day at the hospital in the corridor because full, yo. Eventually the doctors decided they wanted to keep her there for observation and further studies, so I loaded her up with stuff from home and we left her there.
Today they did more tests and again decided they wanted to keep her in the hospital and do more tests tomorrow (basically they're worried about what effects the five days of marathon-speed might have had on her heart). So she might come home tomorrow afternoon. She's fine and all and it's good that we're exploring options of the this is not a good thing to have keep happening. So yeah, that's happened.
Oh, and I'll be spending New Year's with seschat. That's good. (I should also be checking out Germany for Place to Move to Soon, but ANXIETY and PROCRASTINATION are making that a no-go.)
Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
teand's "Southern Comfort" Review
Other Fandom:
made_of_fail_pc's Breaking Dawn, Part 2 Review Episode Fifty-Nine: Everybody Dies and Lives Happily Ever After
waffle-meringue's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Limmerick summeries of episodes
Random:
ursulav's embedded Ted talk on "Your elusive creative genius" ; So yet again, the blog-o-sphere has exploded-twice in a week, no less!-with geeks (male) telling women that they are not nerdy enough or not hot or too hot or…I don’t know, it all blurs together after awhile, honestly. - "The word “hot” definitely features, and “cosplay.” As usual, it seems to come down to how-dare-there-be-women-cosplayers-who-do-not-meet-my-arbitrary-standards-of-fandom, in whatever flavor you happen to want." ; NaNoFiMo Attacks! - With words of encouragement for NaNoWriMo ; In Praise of Polite Heroes & Strange Words - With Spirited Away discussion ; Annotated Fairy Tale: The Story of Log ; Ten Years of Blogging
greygirlbeast's embed Song: Dumb ways to Die
marika_kailaya's On writing, improving, and not being an ass to writers - "AT 100WPM, WHICH FYI YOU CANNOT TYPE AT AND NEITHER CAN I, YOU ACHIEVE 6000 WORDS AN HOUR AND THEY WILL NOT BE GOOD WORDS. NO, TRUST ME, THEY'LL BE SHIT. RIDDLED WITH TYPOS. at any rate this is CREATIVE FUCKING WRITING. this is me, making shit up and writing it down and trying to make it palatable to humans. DO YOU REALIZE HOW MANY *PAGES* THAT IS--OF MADE UP SHIT THAT HAS TO MAKE LEGIT SENSE."
tracy_loo_who's Please to be enlightening me, fandom - On the cancellation of Misha Collins' Stonehenge Christmas project, apparently due to vocal negativity of fans
chaosvizier's flocked Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Part One and Part 2 - Adventures and a wedding in Georgia, the country
theweaselking's Song remix: Korn vs. Taylor Swift ; Curing leukemia by injecting the patient with HIV. ; Saudi Arabia deploys electronic tracking of women ; The abandoned suitcases of asylum patients ; "The North Star is 30 percent closer to Earth than we thought it was in the 1990s, which either means our observations are getting more precise, or in about 45 years we're in big trouble" ; Kentucky: Be a fundamentalist Christian, or go to jail *in Kentucky*. ; As it turns out, an institutional policy of only hiring bigots results in a workforce entirely composed of bad people who treat other people badly, and sometimes that means they treat YOU badly. Who could have foreseen? ; "To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure" ; Texas man gets life sentence for driving while intoxicated ; Possible HIV vaccine passes first stage of human trials. ; The Infinite Jukebox: For when your favourite song isn't long enough but you don't want to just put it on infinite repeat. - Probably only supported by Chrome. ; The Illustrated and Admittedly Incomplete History of the Turducken ; Hydrographic printing ; Catholic Church murders another woman for the dual crimes of "having a miscarriage" and "not being white". ; John McAfee, as in "McAfee Antivirus", is apparently wanted for murder and fleeing the cops in Belize. ; Fairy wrens teach secret passwords to their unborn chicks to tell them apart from cuckoo impostors ; *brainmelt*
Pamie's How I Might Have Just Become the Newest Urban Legend
xkcd's US Space Team's Up Goer Five, the only flying space car that's taken anyone to another world (explained using only the ten hundred words people use the most often)
* Veronica Roth
Also I should give the obligatory "I ATEN'T DED" wave. Hiya.
And let's talk a bit about stuff that's going on in my life and family.
So the whole family was down with the flu last week. I was the last to fall, and by then my dad had already stayed home two days and my mom had gotten a fever. So cue a couple days of us all sitting like sad little lumps in the living room, not doing much of anything at all. We're all basically better now except for The Cough of Death.
The main thing I want to talk about though it that last Thursday around midday mom got tachycardia. She gets it sometimes, and has for years. This isn't new. It usually wears off during the day or at least overnight. Except apparently the universe decided to say fuck you to usually.
So she stayed tachy Thursday and Friday and on through Saturday. Dad and I were like hospital woman now but she didn't want to go, felt absolutely fine, she kept saying (except for the whole can't move thing), and also she didn't want to go because it was a long weekend due to a religious holiday (Immaculate Conception) and she was worried about what the hospital would be like on a day like that, and also she was worried about the medicine they'd give her to insta-stop the tachy. And Dad and I were like that's a good thing! It needs to stop! but no dice.
Anyway she was still tachy on Sunday, and by then she was getting bored and sick of it all and worried so worried and I was in full watch like a hawk mode since like Friday and that included comfort mode and distraction mode and I will make you all the herbal teas mode. So Monday morning came around and she still was tachy but finally agreed to getting to the hospital.
They stopped the tachy, put her on some saline solution, and kept her waiting around all day at the hospital in the corridor because full, yo. Eventually the doctors decided they wanted to keep her there for observation and further studies, so I loaded her up with stuff from home and we left her there.
Today they did more tests and again decided they wanted to keep her in the hospital and do more tests tomorrow (basically they're worried about what effects the five days of marathon-speed might have had on her heart). So she might come home tomorrow afternoon. She's fine and all and it's good that we're exploring options of the this is not a good thing to have keep happening. So yeah, that's happened.
Oh, and I'll be spending New Year's with seschat. That's good. (I should also be checking out Germany for Place to Move to Soon, but ANXIETY and PROCRASTINATION are making that a no-go.)
Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
teand's "Southern Comfort" Review
Other Fandom:
made_of_fail_pc's Breaking Dawn, Part 2 Review Episode Fifty-Nine: Everybody Dies and Lives Happily Ever After
waffle-meringue's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Limmerick summeries of episodes
Random:
ursulav's embedded Ted talk on "Your elusive creative genius" ; So yet again, the blog-o-sphere has exploded-twice in a week, no less!-with geeks (male) telling women that they are not nerdy enough or not hot or too hot or…I don’t know, it all blurs together after awhile, honestly. - "The word “hot” definitely features, and “cosplay.” As usual, it seems to come down to how-dare-there-be-women-cosplayers-who-do-not-meet-my-arbitrary-standards-of-fandom, in whatever flavor you happen to want." ; NaNoFiMo Attacks! - With words of encouragement for NaNoWriMo ; In Praise of Polite Heroes & Strange Words - With Spirited Away discussion ; Annotated Fairy Tale: The Story of Log ; Ten Years of Blogging
greygirlbeast's embed Song: Dumb ways to Die
marika_kailaya's On writing, improving, and not being an ass to writers - "AT 100WPM, WHICH FYI YOU CANNOT TYPE AT AND NEITHER CAN I, YOU ACHIEVE 6000 WORDS AN HOUR AND THEY WILL NOT BE GOOD WORDS. NO, TRUST ME, THEY'LL BE SHIT. RIDDLED WITH TYPOS. at any rate this is CREATIVE FUCKING WRITING. this is me, making shit up and writing it down and trying to make it palatable to humans. DO YOU REALIZE HOW MANY *PAGES* THAT IS--OF MADE UP SHIT THAT HAS TO MAKE LEGIT SENSE."
tracy_loo_who's Please to be enlightening me, fandom - On the cancellation of Misha Collins' Stonehenge Christmas project, apparently due to vocal negativity of fans
chaosvizier's flocked Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Part One and Part 2 - Adventures and a wedding in Georgia, the country
theweaselking's Song remix: Korn vs. Taylor Swift ; Curing leukemia by injecting the patient with HIV. ; Saudi Arabia deploys electronic tracking of women ; The abandoned suitcases of asylum patients ; "The North Star is 30 percent closer to Earth than we thought it was in the 1990s, which either means our observations are getting more precise, or in about 45 years we're in big trouble" ; Kentucky: Be a fundamentalist Christian, or go to jail *in Kentucky*. ; As it turns out, an institutional policy of only hiring bigots results in a workforce entirely composed of bad people who treat other people badly, and sometimes that means they treat YOU badly. Who could have foreseen? ; "To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure" ; Texas man gets life sentence for driving while intoxicated ; Possible HIV vaccine passes first stage of human trials. ; The Infinite Jukebox: For when your favourite song isn't long enough but you don't want to just put it on infinite repeat. - Probably only supported by Chrome. ; The Illustrated and Admittedly Incomplete History of the Turducken ; Hydrographic printing ; Catholic Church murders another woman for the dual crimes of "having a miscarriage" and "not being white". ; John McAfee, as in "McAfee Antivirus", is apparently wanted for murder and fleeing the cops in Belize. ; Fairy wrens teach secret passwords to their unborn chicks to tell them apart from cuckoo impostors ; *brainmelt*
Pamie's How I Might Have Just Become the Newest Urban Legend
xkcd's US Space Team's Up Goer Five, the only flying space car that's taken anyone to another world (explained using only the ten hundred words people use the most often)
* Veronica Roth