Brain Goes "BRRRRRRR"

[pshaw_raven]

Not much worth noting has really happened since my last update, at least not in the 'real world.' I am dealing with one of my two or three yearly short-term flus or colds I always seem to get, the last one being in March. So, in other words, right on schedule. I was able to force myself through a long run Sunday but I have a four-miler today and I'm just dead. I might be able to get it done but it's not looking too good. On the other hand I am getting a lot of reading done.

Also just FYI it's extremely unlikely to be The Covids, since my symptoms don't include respiratory problems. I am, as usual, just exhausted, body aches, slight fever, and mental fatigue. It also tends to interrupt my sleep, so the one thing I desperately need is very hard to get.

The only major thing on my mind at the moment is Upcoming Art Challenge Month. As you may or may not know, the originator of the Inktober hashtag has decided to start throwing his weight around. I'm all for creator's rights, until you start using those same rights to troll/endrun around other peoples' rights and profit off their efforts. To me, this is just like Walmart trying to trademark the yellow smiley face, or the NFL trying to assert the rights to "who dat." No. Just, no. So I happened across Culture Hustle's answer, Pinktober. Their prompts are wittier and as I wanted to use this as an opportunity to do some world development for Muna, I won't have to worry about someone trying to horn in on the project uninvited just because I used his framework.

So I'm just finishing up works in progress at the moment to clear the decks for October. After that's done I will likely start drawing Lora - that is, digitally producing pages of it. I went back and rewrote a section to close a massive plot hole, but the basic script is almost done. I'll be trying to finish up the character designs as well.

And for you pumpkin spice latte fans...

Comments

[cdayzee]

I hope you feel better soon! Having those symptoms is never fun. When I start feeling symptomatic, I'll start popping Zicam. It seems to help me.

My husband is currently feeling the impact of something. Hard to say exactly what it is. He's not been running a fever [although I do acknowledge that's not always an indicator]. It seems to have morphed into either allergies or a cold. Not sure it's allergies for him yet as it's too soon for his season & the allergens have been low.

For me, I get mask-induced pseudo symptoms. After an outing of having to wear a mask, I start feeling like I'm developing a cold. I know experts say there is no such thing but I do know people have been hospitalized as a result of wearing a mask for 8 hrs every day as apart of their job, so something is causing it. I'm sure the argument would be that they're not wearing it properly & simply coming into contact with germs, etc. Perhaps at some future date, some study will have been done that indeed such a phenomenon exists. But as for me, my body seems to be sensitive. Even before covid, if I was out & about, the next day I'd start feeling sick. That must indicate that my immune system must not be that great :/

[pshaw_raven]

I've been dealing with seasonal allergy-type symptoms as well. The cold or flu or whatever has passed, but I find myself sneezing and snuffling just like in spring, so what the heck? Fox hasn't had much trouble in that direction, but a friend online who lives way over in Washington is having some sort of nasty cold plus troubles related to the smoke and terrible air quality.

Happily the only problem I am having with masks so far is they annoy my skin. But I can live with some red blotches and pimples compared to the trouble some people have with them.

[cdayzee]

The smoke from the wildfires in California didn't occur to me until I became under an advisory where I live, although it's not hazy. Smoke from fires does cause me to have allergy-like symptoms, so that very well could be contributing to my issues. Perhaps it's just enough to impact me. Or I've become sensitive, either way lol :P

Oh yes - both DH & Trinity have been having skin flare-ups from mask-wearing, which isn't surprising at all.

At times it causes my anxiety to spike & even DH recently experienced a panic attack in a store because of it. He had zero prior working knowledge of what it's been like for me having anxiety, so him having that one experience out of nowhere hopefully allowed him to get a small glimpse of what it's been like for me because he could never wrap his head around it, so would always dismiss my anguish. Of course, I don't want it to become a common occurrence with him. I have noticed though whenever we go shopping, he starts to freak out & become agitated pretty quickly & the first thing he does is rip the mask off outside as soon as he's able. And if we have to go to more than one store, it ramps up. During my worst periods this was my life. It sucks.