'Kay, so, this is going to be a totally random, all-over-the-place post, because... I don't know.
My birthday is in two weeks! I'm somewhat excited and somewhat weirded out. I'll be two whole decades old, which feels odd, and I'll also not be a teenager anymore, which also feels odd. I really couldn't care less about turning twenty-one in another year, so I suppose I'm one year closer to the time when I can legally rent a Rent-A-Car in the U.S.? Eh, hopefully it'll be fun. I'm planning on going out to eat with some friends and maybe going clubbing the weekend after. We shall see.
Still have absolutly no inspiration for fic writing. However, I've been thinking a lot about starting the massive task of editing and rewriting my 2006 NaNoWriMo novel. It's been quietly sitting among all my other e-mail files for years, untouched. I've read it over a few times, but I haven't been able to bring myself to find the inspiration to start really whipping it into shape. I'm contemplating doing an abbreviated pseudo-version of NaNoWriMo this year, re-doing the whole thing for the first time. I don't know whether that'd be the best idea between midterms and finals, but... I'm considering it.
Are there ANY Star Trek reboot or even old-school Star Trek fans on my flist? Because I may have possible fallen headfirst into a new fandom. My school has some sort of deal going on where it gets films three to five months after they're released in theaters, and they hold four free showings of them during a designated weekend. (I'm sure the showings aren't actually free; the money for whatever deal they have probably comes out of the massive Activities Fee we have to pay in addition to tuition, just like every other school.) Two weekends ago they held the showings of the new Star Trek, and OMFG I AM OBSESSED WITH SPOCK. Or rather, Spock/Kirk. And Spock's eyebrows. And the actor who plays Spock, Zachary Quinto.
Actually, I'm really embarassed to say that I have his Facebook page fanned. x.x' I feel really odd friending/following/saying things to/about celebrities, because they're just... people. And I know that having no privacy and getting harassed by rabid fans is part of the job, but I guess I almost feel guilty. So many people want so much from them, and they're all only human. I like to try and respect personal space, no matter whose it is. SOMEONE TELL ME I'M BEING RIDICULOUS?
Oh! And I got to spend half a night in the emergency room on September 10th, which was expressedly Not Fun. Apparently, I have some sort of undiagnosed lung problem. I kind of knew this - I actually spent my summer going to a variety of different doctors - but I didn't, because while we knew there was a problem, we didn't know if it was really my lungs or my heart or my gastric system or WHAT it was. Then I got a sinus infection/chronic sinusitis. My whole face was swollen. Severe allergies + the chronic sinusitis aggravated whatever lung issue I've been having, and so I couldn't breathe. It was really scary; since I'm at school, we had to find one of my roommates friends to drive me to the hospital (my campus health center will only get you an ambulance to one hospital, which is the sort of hospital that if you're dying and you go there, they'll only kill you faster), and then her and my roommate had to stay with me until my parents could get to the hospital. Thankfully, since I go to school so close to home, it only took them around an hour and a half. The emergency room staff was amazing though - I had an EKG done within five minutes of walking in the door, and within twenty minutes I had two different doctors working on a diagnosis and two different nurses doing routine tests. I got a nebulizer treatment soon after, and when they determined that it wasn't a blood clot in my lungs and that the nebulizer had done enough for me, they released me with prescriptions for oral steroids, a steroidal inhaler, and a steroidal nasal spray. I got strict instructions to see a pulmonologist ASAP, to return if anything got worse, and to take all those medications PLUS my allergy medicine twice a day PLUS saline nasal spray twice a day PLUS multivitamins PLUS 1250mg Vitamin C a day PLUS the stuff I'm on normally. It was crazy, but they did handle everything very well and answered all my questions. It could have been a much worse experience.
How are you all?