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Lateshift versus the World

 
  

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Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey
02:46 / 14.04.08
Hi Barbelith - not visited for a few months.

Working nights and thought I'd pop my head round the door to see what's going on. And yes, just as I thought, everything's the same, except the layer of dust coating everything is perceptibly thicker.

Lovely.

Think I'll climb on the sofa in front of the fire and read a book...
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
03:13 / 14.04.08
I recommend the latest Winterson. Welcome back.

I, for my sins, am watching Doctor Who.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
03:46 / 14.04.08
Hi all. I'm a bit AAAAaaaargh! because someone called and I just missed part of a very important hockey game.

I'll be fine in five minutes, when I realize it's just hockey.
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
03:49 / 14.04.08
Would a trip around time and space help you feel better? We could always skip back to the bit of the game you missed. I could just, I don't know, hang out in the kitchen and eat while you watch. Then, you know: the big bang.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
03:51 / 14.04.08
I'd probably step on a squid and destroy the present as we know it.
 
 
asyetunidentified 3rd vandal
03:53 / 14.04.08
Can I be on Lateshift? I'm not actually working, but I can't sleep due to acid reflux - a regrettably common problem with me which the drugs don't seem to be fixing. I'm beginning to think I may have Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
03:56 / 14.04.08
If I say 'No' will you shift anyways, so I can feel contested and never listened to?

I'd like to, I think.
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
04:14 / 14.04.08
VV -- I had that problem for about two weeks due to some nasty antiobiotics I was on at the time. Eating nothing but yogurt seemed to help, but the despair was awful. How long have you had the problem?

Udon noodles + parmesan cheese + scrambled eggs + white onion + salsa = not a bad combination, surprisingly.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
04:18 / 14.04.08
Of course, if you can't do the lactose, all-yogurt all the time, may not actually be a grand idea.

They do have prescription-strength aids, though, which you may want to look into if you're just trying Tums and such.
 
 
asyetunidentified 3rd vandal
04:27 / 14.04.08
No, I'm on lanzoprazole which has helped a bit, certainly made my stomach less painful, but my oesophagus still hurts like a bitch, which leads me to think all the acid has inflamed it.

On top of the reflux, I was recently diagnosed with iron-deficiency anaemia, which has got me thinking of ulcers, but also, bizarrely, with something called reactive arthritis, which is essentially an arthritis you get in response to an infection because all the post-infection debris gets in your joint membranes and fucks you up. Frankly, I'm something of a wrhysical pheck at the moment.

I may attempt the all-yoghurt diet, though. I know what caused my reflux attack tonight - I stupidly had a diet coke with tea - so perhaps a more proactive (and indeed probiotic) approach to my digestion would help.
 
 
Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey
04:48 / 14.04.08
VV - have you tried esomeprazole (Nexium)?

I have indigestion troubles and the lansoprazole helped for a while, then became ineffective. Since changing to Nexium I've been able to abuse my stomach to my heart's content without so much as a twinge.

Worth looking into, at least.
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
05:05 / 14.04.08
Try the yogurt out for a few days...obviously it's not good to do for a long time, but it calmed my stomach down enough for things to start returning to normal.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
05:16 / 14.04.08
Good luck with it, however you manage.
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
05:31 / 14.04.08
Are you feeling better about the hockey game?
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
05:47 / 14.04.08
Hockey was good.

Now I'm (a) fielding a phone call of crisis-ness, (b) eating more dinner, and (c) rereading Gail Simone's Gen13 stuff.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
06:20 / 14.04.08
How 'bout you, Papers? What's new w/you? What's on the calendar and what's getting scratched off?
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
06:20 / 14.04.08
Crisis? Shit!

Sigh. Soon I will have no more Who to watch, and will have to do the dishes.

But I might write afterward.
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
06:28 / 14.04.08
Me? I'm awright. In the mood to go adventuring, but stuck for the moment in sticky time. I'm looking forward to Tuesday & Wednesday -- my days off.

In the middle of that story I PMed you part of the other day; I'm liking where it's going.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
06:41 / 14.04.08
Cool. I really dug what I saw of it.

I'm trying to do a memoir-esque thing, but can't shake the feeling I'm selling people out, so I may do it for myself and then destroy the evidence.
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
06:53 / 14.04.08
You can always change the names to protect the innocent.

I've also decided I need some new clothes, as I've become rather boringly staid in a regular wardrobe and need a bit of a change.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
07:10 / 14.04.08
New clothes! Get something good and horribly flashy.
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
07:13 / 14.04.08
I want some argyle, finally, a nice argyle sweater. You know, to fulfill my Jimmy Olsen fetish. But I haven't found one yet, and if I did I suppose that would finish my life's goals and I would die right there.

Actually, I want a new jacket and some pants and T-shirts. Flashy would be excellent, actually. I've sunk into a swamp of earth tones and actually almost-possibly-maybe missed my wild raver days the other week, when I the most ridiculous colours...

But this time I'll aim to actually look good, of course.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
07:16 / 14.04.08
Being deep in the desert, I am denied much of my fabulous very very black wardrobe. And the leather. So it's all creams and low necks at the moment. And shoes shucked at any given chance.
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
07:21 / 14.04.08
I may also succumb to my unnatural luggage lusts and buy myself a new courier bag if I see one I like. I've been dragging around this big black Swiss Army backpack for the past couple years and I mean! Some weeks demand a rebirth of one's material presence, know what I mean?

How long have you been in the desert? Bit longer'n forty days, I presume.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
07:34 / 14.04.08
Off and on since just after the year began. So, of course, I retired the jacket a few weeks ago. Like they say, watchagonnadoo?

I still haven't been able to bring myself to start wearing t-shirts in public. Which is absurd, but my love of collars will not allow it! basically.
 
 
Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)
07:53 / 14.04.08
Collars have their place. But I wear t-shirts far too often, I suppose.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
08:17 / 14.04.08
Well, I think it's lapse into a small coma time for me.
 
 
Liger Null
03:21 / 15.04.08
Anybody there?
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
03:55 / 15.04.08
Hey! I'm pretending to work, as the actual work would mean less typing and more pretending what I have to type doesn't make me want to kick out windows and threaten to glass the ceiling for looking at me funny. So it's happy music and the internets for me, yes.

How're you doing?
 
 
Consistantly Keggers
(prev. Keggers. Classic.)
03:58 / 15.04.08
Im here.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
04:03 / 15.04.08
Hey, Keggers. World treating you good?
 
 
Consistantly Keggers
(prev. Keggers. Classic.)
04:09 / 15.04.08
No. The world isnt treating me at all. I keep pressing the paging button and yelling "nurse! nurse!" but nobody pays attention to this patient. Im getting no treatment whatsoever.

and you fine lot?
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
04:15 / 15.04.08
Relearning why I loathe confessional modes in print, when they're my confessions. Drinking whisky and coffee. Pixies and Thrill Kill Kult on the headphones. Busily not working.

You know what you need? One of those little things where the patient just hits the button and it kicks the stuff right in you, rather than trying to ring up the duty nurse. Or a cookie. I hear cookies help most things.
 
 
Consistantly Keggers
(prev. Keggers. Classic.)
04:17 / 15.04.08
sadly I have not cookies and from what I hear the cake is a lie.
 
 
Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)
04:21 / 15.04.08
You never have sweets when you're lateshifting! What's up with that? Stock up, man, stock up.

Which is precisely the point I run out of animal crackers and whisky, but there but for the grace of god...
 
  

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