I'm drinking heartbreak motor oil and Bombay gin

[sovay]

On the one hand, I have an incipient double ear infection to match my eyes and probable RSV as the cause of it all and in consequence have just slammed a dosage of prednisone intended to open my head like a Saturn V. On the other, partly because I make references of this nature in conversation with doctors and partly because of the tone of voice, apparently, in which I exclaimed during a discussion of the over-prescription of antibiotics, "You're a homeostasis! Don't kick it!" the urgent care doctor who is four chapters into Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021) declared that she is going to hear the rest of the book in my voice, which I am counting as a win.

Comments

[gwynnega]

I hope the prednisone does the trick!

[sovay]

I hope the prednisone does the trick!

Thank you! I hope so, too! My face feels like it's about to fall off!

[sabotabby]

I hope that means it's working.

[sovay]

I hope that means it's working.

Excellence or serious injury!

[aurumcalendula]

*hugs* I hopes the prednisone helps!

[sovay]

I hopes the prednisone helps!

Thank you!

*hugs*

[moon_custafer]

Yours is the latest in a series of references to Project Hail Mary that make me want to read it.

[sovay]

Yours is the latest in a series of references to Project Hail Mary that make me want to read it.

I really enjoyed it, and I had been moderately favorable on Weir's The Martian (2014). I loved the timing of its sprung double narrative. selkie's spouse recommended it to me in strong terms and was right to do so. Was also right that it would have made a bang-up radio drama, which does not seem to have happened, although the audiobook won an award.

[umadoshi]

Come ooooon, prednisone! Do the (good) thing!

<3

[sovay]

Come ooooon, prednisone! Do the (good) thing!

Thank you!

*hugs*

[selkie]

My son has seen the film four times, including using his own money to see it in IMAX, having devoured the audiobook. I can't do anything with space travel, but it's really rare for my household members to agree so strongly that an experience is worth repeating.

[selkie]

On the bright side, you're not of binary gender, so the prednisone can't turn you into a raging bitch.
I'll get the peanut-butter spoon.

[sovay]

I'll get the peanut-butter spoon.

I just ate an entire chopped liver sandwich because they had to draw ten vials of blood!

*hugs*

[jesse_the_k]

When! It! Comes! To! Prednisone! There! Are! No! Minor! Possibilities!

(attempting to jest about the emotional intensity of it all.)

May it bring you back to the senses you wish to have.

[sovay]

May it bring you back to the senses you wish to have.

Thank you!

My nose started running for the first time in a week, which I am choosing to believe means something.

[nineweaving]

Hope the prednisone kicks in and kicks ass!

The urgent care doctor who is four chapters into Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021) declared that she is going to hear the rest of the book in my voice, which I am counting as a win.

That would indeed be fabulous!

*hugs*

Nine

[sovay]

Hope the prednisone kicks in and kicks ass!

Thank you! I think it is having some effect on top of destroying my appetite and sleep!

That would indeed be fabulous!

It's like telepathically recording an audiobook!

*hugs*

[davidgillon]

Is your body on some weird pokemon gotta collect them all kick wrt infections?

If so, could it please stop?

[sovay]

If so, could it please stop?

Hey, I am working very hard on not acquiring meningitis!

[yarrowkat]

okay, that doctor's response is seriously awesome.

i hope you are feeling better!

[sovay]

okay, that doctor's response is seriously awesome.

It really made the visit.

i hope you are feeling better!

Thank you! My ears are still difficult, but my headache levels have actually decreased!

[sovay]

I can't do anything with space travel, but it's really rare for my household members to agree so strongly that an experience is worth repeating.

I already knew that Rocky had been done primarily with practical effects and was looking forward, but I just found out that Rocky's chief designer goes back to Return to Oz (1985) and Labyrinth (1986) and Little Shop of Horrors and The Storyteller (1987) which means he's first-generation with characters built meticulously out of animatronic puppeteering and now I am frankly stoked to see the film on those technical-artistic grounds alone.

[yarrowkat]

less headache is worth something!

[asakiyume]

"You're a homeostasis! Don't kick it!" is just a fabulous comment which I can well imagine an urgent care doctor falling in love with.

--title line of your post is pretty good too.

[sovay]

"You're a homeostasis! Don't kick it!" is just a fabulous comment which I can well imagine an urgent care doctor falling in love with.

Thank you!

--title line of your post is pretty good too.

That one I stole from Warren Zevon. It was fortuitously on WERS.

[sovay]

less headache is worth something!

And my ears were materially improved by the time the next doctor looked at them! Hooray for a head-ringing quantity of prednisone.