free!

[miriam_e]

I've finished my course of medical treatment! Yay!

For 2 years I've dealt with being constantly tired and out of breath, having most of my hair fall out, losing dangerous amounts of body weight (I'm naturally skinny), and trying to think with a fuzzed-out brain. Now my mind is already starting to speed up again and I don't need to sleep as much. The doctor tells me it will take about a month to really come good again, my hair will probably grow back (gulp), and I should start looking less like a walking stick-insect soon. :)

Over the coming weeks expect more posts from me. Yay!

Comments

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

You are truly amazing. I have to resort to locking out the real world in order to even have a chance at NaNo -- and even then I don't generally make it. You do more than 100k while steeped in an active life. Wow! is all I can say.

Yes, I'd love to read them, but don't send them till after your exams finish. I don't want to distract you.

Locusts are interesting creatures -- brilliantly adapted to boom bust ecological cycles. When swarming they act like a super-organism; other times they are non-social.

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, no, not THAT amazing! I just used the regular 50k. I had two unfinished novels so with the word-count spread out both were finished. Although this time 'round I was thinking 50k doesn't seem like that much, and I know some people double it, so I was wondering if next time I should. Although I don't know what second year of university is like so we'll see.

Chuckles. I'm fine with sending before my exams finish. :D Just an email sent over! There are far more terrible forms of procrastination.

I love that about locusts, that they're just grasshoppers that have the ability to live gregariously. To change morphology within one generation! And behaviour instantly, just by some jostling of the femur, pretty much! It's amazing to me. And the actual swarm, as well--in the dense centre of it, the locusts are flying every which way, all confused and the lot. Opportunistic species.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Yay! That would be great. I shall await your emailed written awesomeness. :)

Just saw a piece the other day that some researchers have found that serotonin kicks locusts over into gregarious behavior. Can't remember what they said triggered the change in serotonin levels. Ah. That's it: touching their back legs. It was on an Australian science program called Catalyst.
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2563609.htm