Running on, running on empty...

[elfs]

I can't believe how tired I am. I barely did anything. After a quick breakfast, I drove Omaha over to the caucus center so she could help set up for the thing at 1:00, then quickly hurtled over so cheapie haircut place so Kouryou-chan could get her bangs whacked, then back to the house to pick up Yamaraashi-chan and take her to the caucus as well.

I did not get to caucus. Kouryou-chan had her rehearsal at 2:00, so I had to drive her up to the theater, then turn around and hit Jo-Ann's fabrics for some bondage rope. Drapery rope isn't hemp, but it's so pretty, especially in the glowy blues and reds that you can get.

Afterward, I had about an hour of downtime. I went to a cafe and tried to write, but the place was too busy and I had forgotten my headphones. I was sandwiched between a businessman constantly calling up his secretary and telling her to index this article or that document, and two gentlemen who were upset that Bill Maher had banned a 9/11 Truther book on the grounds that truthers were gaming the system, and they thought Maher was just part of the vast conspiracy to keep the truth out of the hands of the American people. So, instead, I concentrated on creating a demo environment for my presentation DWIM Structured Text Generation for the Web using Python.

I never got a chance to use the rope. Just as I was getting ready to go out, I got a call from my date. One of her kids is down with a high fever, and she didn't want to leave.

I told her that was okay. I'm not feeling well right now. I think this gastroesophegeal problem is worse than I thought; even with a high dose of Prilosec, I'm still suffering constant sore, acidic throat. And the high Prilosec doses is just making the part of me below the stomach unhappy.

I did finally get about 500 words into a story. Just something new that I thought of in a keffy state last night. One of those annoying things Muse brings me: a man and a woman on a high promontory, overlooking a long valley at the far end of which humans with crude chemical rifles and whips enslave much larger furries. My hero, Jack, is not given to polite speech:

"Those are pines. Those are imported pines. I'd bet my left testicle that this is one of those Terran seedship projects. Those white creatures might be natives of the project, but they're DNA all the way through. They just look like the biggest fuckin' albino Mustela I've ever seen. Only more... human, I guess. Like they didn't put enough ferrets in the blender."

"Jack!" Bonya said. "You can be so disgusting."

"We're not going to find out from here," he said. "It's as sterile as an asteroid up here. We need to go down there, get botanicals, and get something from the furry guys."

Comments

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Re the acid trips, have you taken a look at your diet? Continued trouble with stomach acid issues (including reflux) can often be attributed to something in your diet one way or another. Pay attention to the levels of acid you get after eating something. Maybe keep a notebook for a couple of weeks with what you've eaten, when and what (if any) effect it had on your acid issues.

For me higher fat content usually leads to higher acid levels. Or it could even be as simple as not being hydrated enough. Though I've found that taking acidopholus capsules regularly works wonders and keeps me on an even keel. Hopefully you'll find something that helps without too much trouble.

Feel better!