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May 03, 2006
24 Freaking Chapters In--UMBRA Still Not Sucking. Hmm...
I've been busy reading through UMBRA since you last heard from me. So far, so good. Here and there it is requiring a fair bit of heavy lifting, but at other points it merely requires minor copy-editing-type fixes. This is all coming as a great relief, but I'm also wondering (naturally) if I'm somehow not noticing just how sucky it truly and really is. Am I still too close to the elephant, as it were? Hmm.
Meanwhile, About Those Headaches
I had a bad headache sometime last week. For one day, it hammered away at my bonce and made itself at home, mooching out of the fridge, using our cutlery and plates and then not washing them. You know how it is. But, as I say, this was just one day. Since that day, I've not had anything resembling the same kind of serious headache. We must be talking a week or ten days by now. You can't imagine how suspicious I'm feeling about this. The very slightest twinge or sense of "iffiness" in my head, and I think, "uh-oh, here it comes at last," but then nothing. Nothing at all.
It's weird. Imagine if you've spent years of your life hearing this one really annoying sound almost all day, almost every day. And then, silence. Days and days of silence. You'd be thinking, "hmm, it's too quiet. What gives?" Instead of lying back, celebrating the new quiet, making the most of it, you're sitting there, waiting, listening. The immensely complex and subtle scientific instruments set up to search for evidence of gravity waves aren't as sensitive as the ears you would have by this point for the slightest sign of that sound coming back. And so it is with the headache thing: it's too quiet. Something's wrong. It's toying with me. The bastard!
Posted by adrian at May 3, 2006 06:39 PM
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Good stuff, both book and bonce related!
Posted by: Charlie at May 7, 2006 12:18 AM
yay!
Posted by: river selkie at May 4, 2006 02:06 PM
I get that way when I haven't had a UTI in a while. I get really attuned to any type of odd feeling in my lower body. The waiting and expecting almost causes more anxiety than the actual infection.
Posted by: gimmy at May 4, 2006 05:17 AM
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