alexandraerin

Okay, I get the hints about communicating more often. :P I've still been feeling pretty run-down... even the first two sessions of my D&D games have been a little less unfocused, though we're early enough in the campaigns that I think there's a little more leeway for things to be unfocused. I'm getting better, though.

I called my doctor to ask her if there was any chance that the aspirin regimen she put me on could be responsible for chronic fatigue. Knowing that aspirin's a blood thinning agent, I actually had dire visions of hidden internal bleeding or something. She asked me about my fluid intake habits, and it kind of clicked into place. I've upped my fiber intake quite a bit but had pretty much fallen back to just drinking soft drinks during the day.

Now, the old chestnut that if you don't drink Just Plain Water you will dehydrate yourself is just that: a chestnut. The diuretic effect of soda and juice and such isn't so completely powerful that it cancels out all the huge volume of water you're taking in along with the other junk and then some. But soda doesn't hydrate efficiently, and replacing my salty snack foods with whole grain fiber cereal... well, yeah. So I'm supposed to do some electrolyte replenishment and then drink more water.

I go through phases of preferring water to soda and vice versa, mostly depending on where I am in my battle with sleeplessness. This just happened to be in the middle of my soda cycle. :P

A spot of bright news: popelizbet has been leaning on me to develop some of my short story ideas for other venues, and a while back I actually wrote one and sent it off to Circlet Press, who were planning to do some fairy tale-themed gay erotica anthologies. The book just came out today.

My selection is a retelling of Cinderella, called "Two Balls".

I don't think this is actually my first professional sale, as I'm pretty sure I've sold at least one story to a paying zine at some point. It's not a big payday, for that matter... but I like Circlet and I'd like to see them sell more books. So check it out, or at least help spread the news: AE has sold out a story in the newest Circlet anthology.

Folks who read the latest MUpdate might notice a blurb at the bottom saying "Wednesday" and listing some upcoming events. On Friday, I decided started writing notes to myself about what needed to happen in the next chapter to keep things moving along. Today, I wrote a quick blurb for my own benefit and then decided to share it with everybody else. This gives a specific commitment for Wednesday... not just that there will be an update but what it will be. Making it a feature on the page will also help me remember to keep doing it.

I'll blog more tomorrow. There's a few personal updates and musings and things that I have backlogged in the past few weeks, but if I stay in front of the computer as my pill starts to take hold I'll end up powering through it and being up all night. It's time for me to crash.