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wednes ([personal profile] wednes) wrote2010-05-04 08:07 pm

"There's a reason I'm almost 40 and still working jobs like this."

I've been feeling overwhelmed and unwell to the point of actually contemplating a short hospitalization. Of course, I have a job and therefore can't afford that, because I'd actually be expected to pay for it. Also can't afford the med I've been prescribed, so I'm going to see if I can get a ($50) appointment with the mental health doc they now have at my local community clinic. I want to discuss some med options and see if there's anything that might help me without making it so I can't get to my Crazy--which I need for writing.

My boss is giving me most of next week off, per my request. Aside from my own personal Crazy, my day-job has been kicking my ass. The last two weeks have been fucking unbearable, they really hung us out to dry. Like Christmas times a million, plus web support we are in no way trained to provide. I'm working tomorrow and Friday, then not again until the following Saturday. In that time I will sleep, edit and mix audio for podcasts, and outline the new book. Then I will sleep a bit more, play some Xbox and watch a few movies I've been meaning to watch. It will be glorious. I am getting pretty damn excited for the new book to start coming together. Zombies, you know.

Have you guys read Under the Dome yet? I got it for my birthday, but the I started reading Jack Ketchum and haven't stopped yet. But I'm thinking about picking it up during my week off, since it isn't really a good book to carry around in your purse. Will the ending make me mad? (You know how some Stephen King novels end like he couldn't think of anything so he just stopped writing or flipped a coin or something? userinfowednes
no like.) With that in mind, should I read it?

Speaking of Jack Ketchum, I think I got banned from posting at his Facebook fan comm. I posted something about how the movie version of The Girl Next Door sucked, and how whoever made it didn't seem to understand why the book is so goddamn good. Then, I couldn't post over there anymore. That's a drag, but I was being absolutely sincere. I adore Ketchum's work, and it infuriates me that someone would (or could, I suppose) make such a sub-par movie out of such an impressive book.

H and I watching a silly little zombie movie called Insanitarium. I expected that it would be laughably bad. It was almost good. Had some very cool elements, even if they weren't well fleshed out *snerk--zombies? fleshed out? Hahahahahaaa!* or well-acted. Supposedly, nanotechnology made the zombies, but aside from telling us that verbally, there's nothing else on nanotechnology in the whole movie.

And finally, if you're like me, you've been waiting for Google Chrome for mac to finally allow you to organize your bookmarks. It's still in Beta, but they have fixed that and I am now using it to great affect. Yay!

[identity profile] hellamama.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Hugs on the crazy. I'm home most of the time if you want to talk.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks man.

So...read any good books lately?

[identity profile] darkeryet.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Hope you feel better soon.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Gracias. I'm sure I will.

[identity profile] sarahmichigan.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, I'm sorry you're having a rough patch. I hope the time off will be healing.

*pats*

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I think I will.
Just knowing I have the time coming is a huge load off. Just getting a plan together makes me feel better.

[identity profile] lachupacabra.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
email me yr med info & ill see what i can find out @ my clinic.
there are several programs that provide free meds.

skirts are supposed to be coming soonish!

my sister broke her finger (her hands were already
fucky from rheumatoid arthritis) so ive been nurse
24/7 & not online hardly @ all.
miss reading you. tryn 2 catch up some tonite.
*hug*
:)

[identity profile] hellamama.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been meaning to send you a thank-you note for the books, but I'm such a terrible correspondant. KMLYLM is next in line; I am halfway through the last book in th Dark Tower series now. You know how it is when you read a series from front to back; it takes months, but it's great to be so absorbed in another world.

But I assure you I'm eagerly anticipating your work and will be sure to let you know how much I enjoyed it (or not, but I doubt that will be the case.)

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey thanks, man.
I trust that you received my package.

I'm supposed to be taking at least 5mg a day of Abilify, which is not due to go generic for a couple more years.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
No thank-you note required--especially since I barely acknowledged your birthday at all. ;-]

You don't have to explain to me about book-related immersion. After all, I'm a Harry Potter fan!
groovesinorbit: stephen king (stephen king)

[personal profile] groovesinorbit 2010-05-05 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry things are so rough right now. I hope the time off will help.

I really liked Under the Dome. R liked it, but had trouble with the actual reasons for the dome. He's a hard science fiction guy, so doesn't have a lot of patience for explanations that are a little off. I see his point, but it didn't ruin it for me. There are some really good characters, an evil villain, and I think he really gets the claustrophobia of this isolated town spot on. It ends well, too.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good to know. I think after I finish this Ketchum I'm reading, I'll give that behemoth a whirl.
groovesinorbit: (willow and buffy)

[personal profile] groovesinorbit 2010-05-05 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm curious what you'll think, knowing that you haven't been fond of some of his more recent stuff.

And yeah, it's a heavy sucker.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought the first half of Cell was pretty good until the telepathy started. I eventually reasoned myself into being okay with the ending, but it took a long time.
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[personal profile] groovesinorbit 2010-05-05 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I still haven't come to terms with the ending for that one. Pissed me off royally. It started off so well.

[identity profile] the-omega-man.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
I enjoyed Under The Dome - not the greatest thing that SK has ever written, but it kept me turning the pages and the closing acts are positively apocalyptic.

[identity profile] the-omega-man.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Up in heaven with Jesus. Dining on mashed potatoes and Peached Cobbler." ;)

[identity profile] the-omega-man.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Supposedly, nanotechnology made the zombies, but aside from telling us that verbally, there's nothing else on nanotechnology in the whole movie.

Damn. There goes my comic book idea.
groovesinorbit: stephen king (stephen king)

[personal profile] groovesinorbit 2010-05-06 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! I loved that running gag, so to speak. Rennie's no Randall Flagg, but he's a pretty fine evil guy.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'm gonna dig in, maybe on Monday.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Hardly.

If you're planning to give the world a comic book, don't you DARE back down because of that crapshack.

[identity profile] gusterize.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
I LOVED Under the Dome! I read it right when it came out. I did find the resolution at the end to be a bit silly, but everything else was great.

[identity profile] the-omega-man.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I scripted the first three issues about three years ago. That said, its highly unlikely it'll come to anything because I can't draw and wouldn't know how to go about getting an artist and really can't be bothered submitting it to publishing houses in the already massively over subscribed zombie-comic market. Maybe a web-comic would be the way to go; that way cash-strapped students and unemployed fuckers like myself could get it for the price of an internet session. :)

Its actually my second attempt at a zombie book. I thrashed out three issues of a zombie book called Day 14 about six years ago, which concerned a group of contestants leaving a Big Brother house only to discover that the world had been overrun by zombies - but then Charlie Brooker used exactly the same idea for Dead Set; that said, I'm glad he did as I'd much rather have a cracking TV series like Dead Set in existence than some crappy little independently published comic book that I'd done a half-arsed job on.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Cool! Enough people have said good things that I'm going to go ahead and dig in.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
New zombie lit is always welcome if it's well done. Maybe you don't know this, but when you're out of work you're pretty much required to try and get published.

[identity profile] lachupacabra.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
theres no generic for advair either but BRIDGES TO ACCESS
provides lots of different name brand meds entirely free
or with a very small copay.
i get my advair 100% free.

i havent rcvd a pkg tho.
when did you mail?

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
H FedEx'd it a while ago.

I'll have to follow up with him on it.

I have a doc appt next Thursday to find out what my options are.