If you can't make your own neurotransmitters, store bought is fine too

Hey everyone! Went to the doctor's yesterday, and I officially have a prescription for Equasym XL, which as far as I know is the generic of Ritalin. 10mg dose at first, going up to 20mg after (and possibly the 30mg after that, if the 20mg doesn't do much). I am... Slightly nervous? Anxiety has been going "But what if I don't have ADHD and I'm left with a Class B restricted drug that I can't take!" and pretty much all of my friends have been going "SUSAN YOU LITERALLY TALKED TO A DOCTOR ABOUT THIS, YOU HAVE ADHD!" in the nicest possible ways! (I KNOW, you are all right! But also, anxiety.)

I managed to find what might be the only pharmacy in Nottingham that does their ordering on a Saturday, so gonna find out on Monday! captainraz and hardlyaverage have promised to keep me off twitter until we're sure that it's not doing anything squiggly to my impulse control, although right now I'm struggling to think of anything that I could put on twitter that a) was true, and b) was significantly worse than the usual capslocking about my brain and fictional dick that I usually do.

So... That's where my brain is at! Ringing in a new month with NEW DRUGS, which sounds fun! And captainraz and I have agreed to do Camp Nano while we're both getting used to New Drugs and have yet to pick out specific projecgts to work on, so this is going to be an adventure, maybe.

Oh, and did I tell you all that I have a 40 week contract at work? Because I'm breaking up for the summer on Monday, which is going to be fun! I am going to write SO MANY WORDS and play SO MANY VIDEO GAMES, please feel free to send me recommendations! And HMRC apparently made an error in my favour, which means they're going to refund me £500! I'm very excited about that, although I think I'm going to have to put it away for potential Worldcon emergencies instead of dumping it into my student loan/phone contract. And I won't be at Edge-lit this year either, I'm afraid, because I'm going to see Lex's family and didn't actually clock that Edge-lit was that same weekend instead of the weekend after. orz

So yeah, that's what's going on with me! Mostly the usual, with new meds! And a vague hope of having savings for a month! How's everyone else doing?

Signal Boost: Stacking the Stories: A Short SFF Reading Challenge

forestofglory posted: Stacking the Stories: A Short SFF Reading Challenge

I have a backlog of short SFF that I would like to read. I’ve been consuming other awesome media and gotten very behind -- but there’s awesome sound short SFF I would like to get around to so I’m giving myself a bit of a push to prioritize the short SFF. I’ll be doing a short fiction reading challenge for the month of July and I thought I’d invite everyone else to play along.

forestofglory is doing a short fiction reading challenge in July, and if anyone else wants to play, here's her introductory post with places to find short fiction recommendations! I have a bunch of short fiction I need to read (I have a subscription to Fireside Quarterly and An Amount of Kickstarted anthologies that I should actually look at), so I'm going to be working on those if anyone else wants to play! I haven't picked a definite amount to read yet, but I'll have a thread on twitter for linking to what I DO read.