This is March?

In an exemplar display of central Midwestern weather, for the first time since last winter, we have finally had snow on the ground for more than a day. In March. With many of the spring bulbs having sent up their green spikes and some having bloomed already, the more fools them. *sigh* I mean, I love snow, but in its proper time and place. Which is not now.

So I did that thing again where I fell down in posting and failed to get back up. Since my last missive about the ongoing crud invasion assaulting my body, I relapsed on the "sleeping through the night" thing and had to call my primary doc for another prescription. I wound up with a new inhaler that has the bonus side affect of potentially contracting thrush; I am rinsing after every dose to avoid that, blech. But I have officially been sleeping through the night for a couple of weeks now, and oh my goodness! I have energy! I have brain space! I have a personality that isn't "slug on a couch"! Now my tiredness is due to making bad decisions about my bed time. Oh, self.

I also had a CT scan to follow up on an interesting X-ray, and according to the online update to my medical record, the following is the state of my lungs: "main pulmonary artery is mildly enlarged measuring about 3.8 cm", I have "a punctate calcified granuloma in the right upper lobe", and there is "mild linear scarring or subsegmental atelectasis in the right lower lobe". Dr. Google says that's nothing to be alarmed about, so I'm hoping that my visit to the pulmonologist this week concurs. I sure wish my primary had cared enough to call me about the results.

In other news, I'm on week three of my latest period. I suspect and do not recommend perio-menopause; these month-long periods are not particularly fun.

Vids and vidding and waffling and waiting

I made three Festivids!

The Pirates of Penzance:
Rock This Town, PG. DW, LJ, AO3. The Pirates of Penzance are gonna rock this town.

RPF - Chris Hadfield:
Satellite, G. DW, LJ, AO3. These are the voyages of Col. Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut, science educator, and generally cool dude.

Spy:
Level Up, NSFW. DW, LJ, AO3. Susan Cooper: Analyst. Secret agent. BADASS.

I am very happy with how they were received. I am super relieved that they're finished. Well, all except replying to the comments, which at this point is a crapshoot at being done.

I thought about signing up for equinox_exchange, but I was just a little burned out at that point. I think, though, my vidding well is sufficiently full again to make nefarious plans about that glorious time of year - VIVIDCON! For starters, I have a couple of ideas for Club Vivid that I need to mull over and get approved.

However! This year, I am also seriously pondering offering my services for the Auction, because every little bit helps. Buuuuuut, my anxieties about my abilities are rearing their ugly little weasel heads, so I'm flopping back and forth, and could really use some reassurance. Someone out there would pay twenty bucks for a vid from me, right? Right? And someone else out there would perhaps cheerlead or beta my efforts, yes?

UGH, brain, why you gotta be so mean?