Wednesday in an endless month

[flemmings]

...which confuses because it feels, however briefly, like late August. Heat broken, cicadas singing, evenings growing darker earlier (and well they should, a month post-solstice. Still not totally dark at 9 pm.)

My stomach hurts. Suspect either a return of the mysterious condition that plagued me in Tokyo twenty years ago, or a reaction finally to daily use of NSAIDs. I hope for the mysterious condition, because I need my ibuprofen and/or celebrex to operate.

Reading late '90s journals written just after my return from Japan or on trips back there. When not speculating in detail about the emotions of characters in my stories, they're devoted to attempts to recall/ record Tokyo, in which they fail completely. But then I go to Starbucks and read twenty pages of Kirin no Tsubasa and there, presto! is the feel of the place complete. Just add language, evidently.

What have you just finished?
The Name of the Star, though I finished it on the weekend. Has been a busy week.

What are you reading now?
Paris Requiem, which grows on one even as it depresses.

What will you read next?
The new Magicals Anonymous, obtained from the library, and the first Parasol Protectorate, ditto.

Comments

[yumiyoshi.livejournal.com]

I get really bad stomach pain on some NSAIDs (and in the course of everyday life, long story) and I combat it with omeprazole, which is generic Prilosec/Nexium, one of the enantiomers. Dunno if it's useful for you - my issue is crazy bad acid problems, and omeprazole is a proton pump inhibitor - but if that's your core issue, it might help? It keeps me functional, no joke, so I am v. v. v. fond of it. Either way, I wish you luck, I know how awful stomach pain can be.

And do let us know how Glass God is :D

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Belated thanks for the tip. Shall mention it to my doctor when she gets back from vacation. I have the occasional acid reflux but this, I think, is the disconcerting IBS that pops up at extremely long intervals.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

This whole year thus far has been doing weird out of season things. It's thrown my already out of whack body clock (and it isn't just the nightime daytime thing either) more out of kilter.

Even the little boy said to me the other day ... "Mama, this has been a long month."

*hugs* for the discomfort. At the moment everything is layered in allergies. Ugh!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I'm used to out of season now, though for the past three years that's meant warmer than normal. Cooler at least makes for a change; though it comes with wetter and more violent, which one could do without. Allergies, yes indeed. Reason enough for the body to howl.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Last Monday was the beginning of the Chinese lunar calendar 'great heat/summer' indicating the beginning of the hottest time of the year. I'll be glad to be out of the 38C subtropics and back to my normal 25C Seattle weather. Even three cold showers a day isn't doing it.

Shanghai is like Tokyo, my brother says, only more spread out. Your memories of the place must be lovely.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ah the humid 38C summers. How I do not miss them at all. Even if I get almost as sweaty here.

Shanghai is more spread out than Tokyo? How could it be? Greater metropolitan Tokyo slops into three prefectures besides being a government unit all on its own. Or does he mean 'not as densely built up'?