Whine & Rec

[jesse_the_k]

I've been feeling particularly loathesome lately. I'm weak, I'm dizzy, I'm sleeping 30% more. It's how I felt before I went gluten-free, in fact, but I've wracked my brains and can't imagine any stealth gluten in my diet.

Feh.

OTOH, I got sick of paying huge sums of money to TDS for slow DSL. So today I swapped in Charter cable internet (phone t.k., no TV needed). Less money and way faster! Now I can actually watch YouTube -- although that may be a mixed blessing.


Meantime I've been laying around reading SGA fanfic.

This episode tag (for The Hive/Lost Boys) is heartbreaking and realistic: As Rodney slowly detoxes from the Wraith venom, pocky_slash takes us inside his frantic mind, as he's trying to understand what has happened and how he feels. Part of his unwinding and rewinding is a long letter which he carries and corrects and corrects.
Read it at STUTTER

For Remix 2011 (more windily known as Remix Redux 9: Love Potion No. 9), mad_maudlin shows us that letter. It's brilliant! You can see three layers of corrections and amendations and sidetracks and it's great!
Go read Dear John (WIP Remix).
Yes that link is to an image, but mad_maudlin also produced a text-only version, using strikeouts, footnotes, and other accessible HTML so all readers can groove on it.

Comments

[sonia]

Yay for faster Internet!

I hope you feel better soon. I've just been poking around on the celiac.com message boards under multiple food intolerances, since my list of foods I can eat is so short. I keep wondering if something else is going on. Sending sympathy!

[starlady]

Thanks for the rec, I really enjoyed both stories. And I hope you feel better soon.

[wild_irises]

Hope it gets better!

[bibliofile]

Is it possible that you're just getting more sensitive to various things? The other week I had a very interesting conversation with someone who's started growing their own herbs & some other things because, frankly, it's just easier than trying to source safe-enough things.

Have a better one....