A general update of sorts, primarily concerned with YET ANOTHER GODDAMN COLD.

[juushika]

So it seems that the teenagers were recently hanging out here has they recovered from some sort of shared illness. I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I'm sure as fuck aware of it now because I've been sick again for the third time since the year started—stuffy ears and to a lesser extent sinuses, dense brainfog, and a wracking cough that will not quit. It feels like someone poured cement in my ears and let it set up in my skull. So that's fun, as they say in sarcasm land. It came at a bad time, piling up on some other physical woes (back problems in particular, wherein my back made it as hard to sit or stand as my cough made it to lie down) and sending me into something of a funk. It and I are both somewhat better now, but if I've seemed quiet, now you know why.

One day, maybe some day soon, I will make an LJ post that is not primarily concerned with my health.

I've been going through a bit of a dry reading spell lately, but made a library run (and finished a particularly meh book), so that should help. I've been watching Durarara!! with Express (or at least I was until I fell behind—I should catch up soon) which has been singularly entertaining—both to go back and have a thousand "ah hah!" moments as I learn that everything that seemed confusing the first time, damn near everything at all, has meaning; and to watch someone else form theories and break out the capslock for that crazy awesome show. I'm nearing the end of Pokémon Black, and procrastinating said end as always. So: same old, same old, thereabouts or so.

Some day soon I should think about a major clean, sorting, and semi-packing as I start to look towards spending significant time in Portland. Some day soon I should ... go spend significant time in Portland. I am many book reviews behind (three, now? more?). I've been pretty damn unproductive. Today though I think I might watch some TV.