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I think I have some sort of food allergy that is resulting in breakouts. Not bug bites. The reason is that after I eat certain things - I feel a sting on my skin, then I itch, I break out in hives, and have itchy breakouts. And it's been happening the last few weeks. These blisters may actually by the result of an allergic reaction to food.
According to mother - she has a friend with ceiliac disease who breaks out in blisters occassionally.
So I may have to restrict this diet a bit further?
I'm learning to push food solely into the category of eating to live.
The weird rash has not gone away - it is a stinging itch, which happens whenever it brushes against something or random. Does go away with Benedryl and the horticozone - the sting, and the itch. It's five little cluster rows of tiny pale clear blisters with dark red inside them. Looks like a little Christmas tree or arrow head with all the little blisters inside it, and is at times swollen or red around it. And every once awhile stings, then has a burning itch. It's not all over, just a small patch of skin below the fold in my elbow. It's not getting better or worse. Outside of the fact that I can see the blisters better than before. There are no other real symptoms outside of general stingy itchiness, which has been going on for a week now. It hurts less than it did last week - so there's that.
The doctor didn't know what it was and gave me horticorzone to treat. I'm coming back on Thursday. I don't think it's possible to come in again sooner. Decided not to go to Church's bring a friend/meet a friend today - because - all I can think about is the itch and work, and I'm irritable because of both. ie. I'm not my best self at the moment.
It's a rainy weekend, thankfully.
Been watching tv, writing, painting and reading through most of it. May make a quiche today.
Television?
* Next in Fashion S1 (almost finished with it) - it's reminding me of why I'm not into fashion or necessarily "fashionable" or care. A lot of the clothes they love - I wouldn't be caught dead in. Taste in this sort of thing is pretty subjective. Although there is "objective" criteria relating to "construction" and "how well it is put together" and "whether they've seen it before".
* Foundation - it kind of heats up after episode 4. The episodes focusing on Hari Seldon, and the Empire (Lee Pace's character) tend to be rather talky and cerebral in character and I have a tendency to go to sleep during them. That's the first three episodes - and they are a huge information dump (much of which I'm not sure is necessary - since I can follow it without any problem, having slept through portions of episodes 1-3, and they repeat bits of it anyhow). The murder of Selden is repeated about ten times.
Episode 4 and 5 are interesting and good, however the bits focusing on the Empire (Lee Pace, Terence Mann and the kid) are boring and drag. As are the ones that focus too much on Gaal. The bits on Salvor and Terminus, however are suspenseful and interesting. So there's a definite pacing problem here, and the writing is somewhat uneven at the moment. I think the difficulty is that they have to get across three separate points of view, that are no where near each other, and don't know about each other. Not an easy thing to do.
Also, there's a 34 year time jump between episode 2 and episode 4. Episode 3 kind of explains the time jump or shows it. Once we jump ahead, things get interesting or more interesting.
* Have two episodes left for Good Omens. The plot? Everyone is trying to find Gabriele, Arizaphale and Crowley are busy hiding an amnesiac Gabriele in Arizaphale's book shop. Gabriele every once and a while goes into a trance and gives prophetic speeches of doom. Meanwhile Arizaphale and Crowley are trying to distract Heaven and Hell from where Gabriele is by having two women who are flirting at a local coffee shop romantically fall in love and kiss - which they think is a miracle (?). This feels like Gaiman's version of a romantic farce within a dystopian storyline?
I find the plot kind of ...lackluster. But Crowley and Arizaphale's banter is fun. Nothing for me to get fannish about. But fun.
*****
Read a few comics, nothing major to report. Dark X-men is kind of interesting in that it is detailing monsters fighting monsters, with two characters who are wondering what the frak they are doing with these guys and they'd be better somewhere else.
Being a long-running serial - X-men has done much the same thing that the daytime soaps has done, break up long-established pairings to explore characters in a new way. Scott/Jean are split again - Jean died (again - murdered by Moira X - the only way they can realistically split them up is to kill off one of them for a period of time) with no "known" way of being brought back (emphasis on known - she'll be back, she has her own five part series), Scott is paralyzed and a prisoner of Orchis (the villains who killed Jean). Rogue and Gambit are split - she's hanging with the Avengers, he's hanging with the Dark X-men (I honestly don't know what happened there and am ambivalent). Mystique and Destiny are split, Mystique refused to go through the gate, and allegedly fell to the rocks below and is "presumed" dead (she's not - in long running serials - presumed dead means alive and off the canvas for a little while until the writers decide to bring them back). Destiny pissed off Mystique by trying to manipulate timelines at great cost to basically everyone just to be with Mystique. (Honestly considering the fact that Mystique is an opportunistic assassin, that's kind of hilarious. But I think it's more that Destiny manipulated Mystique and lied to her than the fact that she did it?) Anyhow, Destiny jumped through the Gate to another world (a world that Mother Righteous has magically contained inside a lantern), while Mystique is still wandering about in the current world.
Meanwhile we have odd pairings in Wolverine and Ghost Rider (seems to be a bro-romance), Emma and Iron Man ( a pairing out of necessity and mutual flirting), and that's about it at the moment. They broke up Kitty and Colossus ages ago. They've not been together for the past ten years now.
They also broke up Betsy and Warren ages ago. It's now Betsy and Rachel.
My difficulty with the X-men fandom. Is my favorite character is hated by the progressives for not being Queer or Diverse enough (sigh. some fandom liberals are often too self-righteous for words, I agree with them and want to smack them at the same time), or loved by crazy ass fanboys who want him to be more of a strategist leader type and straight arrow (sigh, I want to smack them as well.)
***
Got more information on what niece is doing from my brother. I texted him.
She's applying to various national parks. Got the job at Mount Hood, in Oregon, as a ski-lift operator. It's at the same hotel that the shot the exterior for The Shining. (The interior was shot in studios in London, England).
Also had an interview with Gila Wilderness, where she would work with grass roots organizing and conservation with the non-profit managing the wilderness area. Partially in the office, and partially leading groups into the back-country.
She's currently a park ranger with Sierra National Forest.
Her current boyfriend is a writer and Jewish, from Utah. He tried to get into Harvard but was rejected (on account of being Jewish - apparently - among the many reasons I dislike Harvard, and have no respect for it as an educational institution. We all despise it in my family. It's not worth saving.) So he went to the University of Utah instead. They hike the back-country together, sort of? He hikes in one direction, she in another, and they meet in the middle. She does 20-30 miles backpacking hikes on the weekends.
My niece the Park Ranger, and nature conservationist.
Ah to be young and fancy free.
According to mother - she has a friend with ceiliac disease who breaks out in blisters occassionally.
So I may have to restrict this diet a bit further?
I'm learning to push food solely into the category of eating to live.
The weird rash has not gone away - it is a stinging itch, which happens whenever it brushes against something or random. Does go away with Benedryl and the horticozone - the sting, and the itch. It's five little cluster rows of tiny pale clear blisters with dark red inside them. Looks like a little Christmas tree or arrow head with all the little blisters inside it, and is at times swollen or red around it. And every once awhile stings, then has a burning itch. It's not all over, just a small patch of skin below the fold in my elbow. It's not getting better or worse. Outside of the fact that I can see the blisters better than before. There are no other real symptoms outside of general stingy itchiness, which has been going on for a week now. It hurts less than it did last week - so there's that.
The doctor didn't know what it was and gave me horticorzone to treat. I'm coming back on Thursday. I don't think it's possible to come in again sooner. Decided not to go to Church's bring a friend/meet a friend today - because - all I can think about is the itch and work, and I'm irritable because of both. ie. I'm not my best self at the moment.
It's a rainy weekend, thankfully.
Been watching tv, writing, painting and reading through most of it. May make a quiche today.
Television?
* Next in Fashion S1 (almost finished with it) - it's reminding me of why I'm not into fashion or necessarily "fashionable" or care. A lot of the clothes they love - I wouldn't be caught dead in. Taste in this sort of thing is pretty subjective. Although there is "objective" criteria relating to "construction" and "how well it is put together" and "whether they've seen it before".
* Foundation - it kind of heats up after episode 4. The episodes focusing on Hari Seldon, and the Empire (Lee Pace's character) tend to be rather talky and cerebral in character and I have a tendency to go to sleep during them. That's the first three episodes - and they are a huge information dump (much of which I'm not sure is necessary - since I can follow it without any problem, having slept through portions of episodes 1-3, and they repeat bits of it anyhow). The murder of Selden is repeated about ten times.
Episode 4 and 5 are interesting and good, however the bits focusing on the Empire (Lee Pace, Terence Mann and the kid) are boring and drag. As are the ones that focus too much on Gaal. The bits on Salvor and Terminus, however are suspenseful and interesting. So there's a definite pacing problem here, and the writing is somewhat uneven at the moment. I think the difficulty is that they have to get across three separate points of view, that are no where near each other, and don't know about each other. Not an easy thing to do.
Also, there's a 34 year time jump between episode 2 and episode 4. Episode 3 kind of explains the time jump or shows it. Once we jump ahead, things get interesting or more interesting.
* Have two episodes left for Good Omens. The plot? Everyone is trying to find Gabriele, Arizaphale and Crowley are busy hiding an amnesiac Gabriele in Arizaphale's book shop. Gabriele every once and a while goes into a trance and gives prophetic speeches of doom. Meanwhile Arizaphale and Crowley are trying to distract Heaven and Hell from where Gabriele is by having two women who are flirting at a local coffee shop romantically fall in love and kiss - which they think is a miracle (?). This feels like Gaiman's version of a romantic farce within a dystopian storyline?
I find the plot kind of ...lackluster. But Crowley and Arizaphale's banter is fun. Nothing for me to get fannish about. But fun.
*****
Read a few comics, nothing major to report. Dark X-men is kind of interesting in that it is detailing monsters fighting monsters, with two characters who are wondering what the frak they are doing with these guys and they'd be better somewhere else.
Being a long-running serial - X-men has done much the same thing that the daytime soaps has done, break up long-established pairings to explore characters in a new way. Scott/Jean are split again - Jean died (again - murdered by Moira X - the only way they can realistically split them up is to kill off one of them for a period of time) with no "known" way of being brought back (emphasis on known - she'll be back, she has her own five part series), Scott is paralyzed and a prisoner of Orchis (the villains who killed Jean). Rogue and Gambit are split - she's hanging with the Avengers, he's hanging with the Dark X-men (I honestly don't know what happened there and am ambivalent). Mystique and Destiny are split, Mystique refused to go through the gate, and allegedly fell to the rocks below and is "presumed" dead (she's not - in long running serials - presumed dead means alive and off the canvas for a little while until the writers decide to bring them back). Destiny pissed off Mystique by trying to manipulate timelines at great cost to basically everyone just to be with Mystique. (Honestly considering the fact that Mystique is an opportunistic assassin, that's kind of hilarious. But I think it's more that Destiny manipulated Mystique and lied to her than the fact that she did it?) Anyhow, Destiny jumped through the Gate to another world (a world that Mother Righteous has magically contained inside a lantern), while Mystique is still wandering about in the current world.
Meanwhile we have odd pairings in Wolverine and Ghost Rider (seems to be a bro-romance), Emma and Iron Man ( a pairing out of necessity and mutual flirting), and that's about it at the moment. They broke up Kitty and Colossus ages ago. They've not been together for the past ten years now.
They also broke up Betsy and Warren ages ago. It's now Betsy and Rachel.
My difficulty with the X-men fandom. Is my favorite character is hated by the progressives for not being Queer or Diverse enough (sigh. some fandom liberals are often too self-righteous for words, I agree with them and want to smack them at the same time), or loved by crazy ass fanboys who want him to be more of a strategist leader type and straight arrow (sigh, I want to smack them as well.)
***
Got more information on what niece is doing from my brother. I texted him.
She's applying to various national parks. Got the job at Mount Hood, in Oregon, as a ski-lift operator. It's at the same hotel that the shot the exterior for The Shining. (The interior was shot in studios in London, England).
Also had an interview with Gila Wilderness, where she would work with grass roots organizing and conservation with the non-profit managing the wilderness area. Partially in the office, and partially leading groups into the back-country.
She's currently a park ranger with Sierra National Forest.
Her current boyfriend is a writer and Jewish, from Utah. He tried to get into Harvard but was rejected (on account of being Jewish - apparently - among the many reasons I dislike Harvard, and have no respect for it as an educational institution. We all despise it in my family. It's not worth saving.) So he went to the University of Utah instead. They hike the back-country together, sort of? He hikes in one direction, she in another, and they meet in the middle. She does 20-30 miles backpacking hikes on the weekends.
My niece the Park Ranger, and nature conservationist.
Ah to be young and fancy free.
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