quick updates on a monday morning

[seventhe]

• in 10 days I get the keys to my house. I am sort of in disbelief-land still.


• talked to the dr about my neck on Thursday. Turns out the news is better than I'd thought; the dr said that any kind of improvement is a good sign (I had been evaluating a 50%-75% improvement as "not 100% and therefore failure"; he said that 50%-75% is actually very promising), that he wants me to have a series of three shots with additional focused PT following the second shot, that whatever activity I can give it without pain will be good for it, and that he also wants me to stay on the painkillers until it is 100%.
  So the forward plan right now becomes using gentle exercise to remind my neck/shoulders/back what it's like to not be all fucked up, then to have another shot ~end of March/early Apr and a third ~end of Apr. He seems really hopeful that since it did respond to the first shot that subsequent ones will be even better. I'm trying to take hope from his optimism.


• I'm very happy to have been "cleared" to get back to working out, and am trying really hard to take it slow and gentle rather than just diving right in (and probably hurting myself again because my body is a jackass). I've been feeling very broken and lumpy lately - a very complex and complicated feeling, but generally not a good one - and I think this will help.


• meetings this week with the Japanese Overlords. I have my project review this morning; at the advice of a few of the managers I've added a slide pretty boldly and blatantly requesting the targets and direction we still lack in two main areas; I am not sure how this will go over. send help


• I've been playing FFIII. For now - until I make an official post - you can watch me here on tumblr. Basically this game:
  
  Yup.


• I still really want to write.


• DOINK! Final Fantasy Exchange 2013 is coming up. That's right, stay tuned for your yearly dose of "Sev has officially lost it". Timing this round: impeccable; sign-ups open the day I get the keys. clearly I am a professional


• what else do I even do anymore?

Comments

[temples]

Your house needs an official name, like... SevLand's Embassy... or something a lot less stupid. YOU PAY ME TO BE PRETTY, NOT TO USE MY BRAIN.

[seventhe]

So far I've been calling it Castle Gaylord, although chances are when I actually move in, it will get a more significant name. XD

[temples]

Are you saying Castle Gaylord isn't a significant name?

I AM EXCITED TO SEE IT FOR MYSELF

[stealth_noodle]

Whoo, glad to hear the shot is actually helping! HERE'S TO HITTING 100%.

I spent FFIII in a perpetual state of bemusement, which gradually gave way to bemused irritation as I neared the endgame (and I only ever neared the endgame; the grinding was not fun enough for me to keep at it). If you finish it, you are a more dedicated person than I!

[seventhe]

So far I'm enjoying FFIII -- the characters and plot are definite steps up from I and II -- although there are still so many things that just make me go "Oh. Okay" (hence the Tumblr joke and appropriate icon) because I just don't get it

I'm not looking forward to the end. The good news is that so far I *am* pretty far so if I do need to visit Grind City I should have time.

[stealth_noodle]

I played to the final dungeon and honestly could not explain the plot to you if you asked me. (Granted, it's been a few years, but still. It's been longer since I played Shining Force II, and I can still drunkenly hit the highlights of that one.) All I remember is the degeneration of my charmed bemusement.

"Oh. Okay." is the perfect tagline.

[goldmare]

So glad the shots are helping. I've been in physical therapy for a fucked-up shoulder, and felt it go from bad to worse to kill-me-now to manageable to almost-not-a-problem-anymore. Since I've been following/creeping on your posts for a bit, I was suspecting it might get worse before it got better, and I'm glad to hear that is not the case. That said, there might be a lot of fluctuation in pain level before this goes away. But good luck; I really hope it continues to improve.

[seventhe]

I really hope so too. So far PT has done absolutely nothing for me (although I'm certainly willing to try it in combination with something else) so it's really just good to have SOMETHING that's effective.

[lassarina]

I'm so glad that you're improving in ways your doctor likes to see! (And, well, you, obviously.) That's awesome! may the improvement continue. Lots.

WRITING STUFF. YOU AND ME. TIME SET ASIDE. LET'S DO THIS.

p.s. do you still want to do miniNaNo next month? BECAUSE I DO.

[zen_monk]

Hooray for medical improvements and clearance for other physical things! Are you going to be back to running or would you be doing swimming? Work seems to be going forward with tentative steps, but it seems like you have cheerleaders within your vicinity that could match your online ones!

FFIII seems to be a bastion of good screenshots...

[novel_machinist]

SOON!