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In headache and in worry/ Vaguely life leaks away
Getting enough sleep leads to exactly the same sort of stiff neck and headache as getting too little. I blame the weather for part of that-- heavy low pressure mug with intermittent cloudbursts. The rest is down to The Month of Living Fretfully wherein I cannot emotionally distinguish things that have happened from things that might happen, and so live in a state of perpetual hovering anxiety. Thought Buddhism was supposed to cure that, she grumps; or maybe it only cures it when the weather is sunny and dry.
Roll on August, is all I can say.
This chronic fuman is not helped by The Glass God, which is as schticky as Stray Souls. I never noticed, through four volumes of Midnight Mayor, whether it has any character development or not. Probably not, but I was too swept up in the ambience to notice. This time it's very clearly not: look at my amusing characters being their amusing selves aren't they amusing? Kevin is still germ-phobic, Rhys still sneezes a lot, Gretel still wants to cook, and Sharon still prattles new age self-help which wasn't funny to start with. Also am not comfortable with the notion of a new age prattler being a shaman of any kind. Sits badly for reasons I may have to think about some more.
Roll on August, is all I can say.
This chronic fuman is not helped by The Glass God, which is as schticky as Stray Souls. I never noticed, through four volumes of Midnight Mayor, whether it has any character development or not. Probably not, but I was too swept up in the ambience to notice. This time it's very clearly not: look at my amusing characters being their amusing selves aren't they amusing? Kevin is still germ-phobic, Rhys still sneezes a lot, Gretel still wants to cook, and Sharon still prattles new age self-help which wasn't funny to start with. Also am not comfortable with the notion of a new age prattler being a shaman of any kind. Sits badly for reasons I may have to think about some more.
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Barometric tension headaches are a pain, literally and figuratively, because barometric changes we have always with us. Preemptive is good, I'm told, because once started it's too late. However tylenol is not a pain killer in my books: it's a clinical test placebo. (And it only trashes your liver, not your tum.) Have you tried ibuprofen for them?
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I have four books on the go right now and only one is fiction. I think, as busy as I am, I just cannot deal with fictional problems! They stick in my head and I try to find solutions and my head is already full of solution-searching for work!
That being said, Holy Sh-t : A History of the English Language in Four Letters (http://www.amazon.ca/Holy-Sh-t-History-English-Language/dp/0199742677/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375028688&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=holy+shiit) is a fascinating book! Definitely a boon for language and world-building if you want authentic-sounding cussing. XD
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Shall go look for that one. Thanks.
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I didn't really expect character development in the Midnight Mayor books since imo she had clearly doubled down on Concept and Setting, which was a great choice. We all have to play to our strengths.
(And you know my feelings on Sharon, soooo yeah. With you there.)
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Correction: Sharon isn't New Age but Self-help. Can't decide if this is good or bad. New Age shaman would have been a bit oogey, but NA is intriguing in its varied battiness. Self-help is a yawn in every way, whether taken straight or as the subject of satire.