Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Insomnia
I don’t know why but over the past year my insomnia’s got worse again. It’s not, thank god, as bad as it was when I was young adult. Particularly I’m thinking it’s not as bad as when I was a student when I’d sleep a few hours at most a night, and then crash at…
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Persuading Scrivener (3.5.1) to use your folder names as chapter titles
Because I’m either insane or a masochist, having got Scrivener working yesterday I decided I was going to import my document from word and then attempt to produce an epub. Since that’s essentially what Scrivener is for me, a glorified epub/book pdf producer, since they don’t support Linux properly, and also don’t support Android –…
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Scrivener 3.5.1 on Ubuntu Linux 22.04
Scrivener seems like the best available option for epub production on Linux, so I decided to install it… There is a linked guide in the Scrivener forums (here) on which this is based, but Scrivener crashed twice during setup following it – several of the dialog boxes behaved very oddly – and when I got…
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And we’re done!
So I’ve finally finished (mostly) having bits chopped off or up. Since the US healthcare system makes it wise to throw everything at the pan once you hit your deductible, then I decided to get my nose rotorouted. Basically I’ve had enlarged turbinates and a deviated septum (which I should have had dealt with in…
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Resting Cycle
So I’ve been good. I’ve actually genuinely been good. I’ve lived within my lifting limit (which are lifted tomorrow), I’ve rested and I’ve really done very little. I’ve written – my novel went off to a beta reader, came back, and is apparently not terrible. So after a raft of edits it’s gone off to…
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The Cass Report / BMJ
I had words for the BMJ. I don’t know if they’ll stay up on the BMJ’s site, but they’re here if they don’t. Dear Editor, The BMJ’s editorial supportive of the findings of the Cass review will stand as one of the poorest decisions in this journal’s storied history. On final publication it has…
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FFS Day 7
Okay, I know I said I was going to stop. But it’s me and I’ve never been one for reliably making a decision and sticking to it. One of the interesting things which I’ve noticed over the past couple of days as I have slowly been out in the world a little bit more (following…
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FFS Day 7
So yesterday was the last day of oral antibiotics. Thank fuck for that because as is so often the case when I’m on penicillins, not that I’ve been on them a ton, but towards the end I start to get lousy acid indigestion. Although, to be fair, that could equally well be that I’m mainly…
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FFS Day 6
Well, that’s it. Done and dusted assuming nothing crops up in the next chunk-o-healing. After last night’s debacle with not sleeping I could not have been more grateful that Kathryn so kindly took today off to go up with me. Traffic was pretty chill, which so far has been the case, and we got up…
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Pregaming FFS Day 6.
So today I should get the sutures out – which is great. And the staples. But after 6 and a half hours of staring at the inside of my eyelids I got sick of it and got up. I don’t really know what to do with myself – I think I’m going to have to…