Enemy of Entropy

The Girl Is Better! And More Reading

7 July 2008, 11:31 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Family, Health, Reading.

That’s a relief. I was get­ting quite wor­ried. She spent most of the week­end sleep­ing or look­ing like a zom­bie, eat­ing only what Sam could coax into her, and using heat­ing pads. I’m start­ing to think that we should accept the offer to refer her to a pain man­age­ment doc­tor, if only to have some­thing she can take dur­ing a flare.

Blood NoirSo I read the lat­est Anita Blake novel, Blood Noir. I’m not sure why I con­tinue to read these. Hon­estly, Hamil­ton is a decent writer. I enjoy her prose. She just needs to go back to plot school! Or maybe work with a co-​​writer who is strong on plot, but not rela­tion­ships or descriptions?

There was no plot at all for the first few hun­dred pages of the book. When some­thing involv­ing a pre­vi­ous “big bad” did hap­pen, it was noth­ing but an incon­ve­nience, and over within an hour of Anita find­ing out about it. Whoopee. There was a cri­sis and dan­ger, of course, but I found them anti­cli­mac­tic after the vil­lains Anita has van­quished in the past.

There was, of course, lots of sex. This one could have been called, “Anita gets a fuck buddy.”

SunshineOh well. On to Sun­shine by Robin McKin­ley. Some­one rec­om­mended it to me years ago, and I hap­pened to see McKinley’s name some­where and remem­bered it. I don’t think that I’ve read any of her nov­els before. Short sto­ries, maybe.

Rant at Fibrant Living

3 June 2008, 11:59 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Health.

If you have fibromyal­gia, or care about any­one who does, please read and respond.

Fibrant Living: FMS or Depression?

24 May 2008, 10:22 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Health.

I posted over at Fibrant Liv­ing today, about the dif­fer­ence between fibromyal­gia and depression.

Interview: Chronic Pain and Sex

14 May 2008, 3:08 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Health, News, Relationships, Sex.

The inter­view we did is up!
Chronic Pain and Sex: a Couple’s Gen­tle Bat­tle With Fibromyalgia

I’m pleased with it. There are very few, mostly imma­te­r­ial inaccuracies.

Whoops! Yesterday was FMS/​CFW Awareness Day!

13 May 2008, 9:19 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Family, Health.

I intended to post and maybe even try to get a pod­cast out, but ended up using my energy to do an inter­view with a reporter. I don’t know when the piece will come out (it wasn’t for aware­ness day – that was just an amus­ing coin­ci­dence), but I’ll let you know when/​if I hear anything.

She also inter­viewed Sam, since the topic was “fibromyal­gia and inti­macy.” He’s so wonderful!

 

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