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fr_defenestrato) wrote2007-05-23 09:54 am
fr_defenestrato) wrote2007-05-23 09:54 am
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randomish update
perhaps because i'm flying to Chicago tonight, my sleep last night was brief... 11:30 to 3:30 and BOING, wide awake. it didn't help that it occurred to me i had not yet written a sonnet this week, and then it occurred to me that i should try some additional constraint besides rhyme scheme and meter. i'm a freakin' freak.
the Cheese Lord concert on Sunday was really pretty terrific. The Cathedral of Mary our Queen (in Baltimore) is indeed a cathedral... huge vaulted ceiling. the sound is amazing. the whole group could hear the whole group and so it was easy to stay in tune with each other. on the pieces that ended forte the whole big beautiful chord just rang for like 3 seconds after we had shut up. it was a really nice way to end a tremendously busy season. about half the lords went out for Indian food afterward; i was pleased to find that the jumbo shrimp in garlic-ginger paste was NOT as good as mine :) and the raita was a skosh too cumin-seedy. but the creamed spinach (saag? or palak? we discussed, without enlightenment, the difference) was luscious and uniquely spiced. and the conversation was equally delicious.
now it's proposal time, of course, and my chicago trip is already et into: tomorrow morning i have to facilitate a review of the proposal first draft by conference call. thereafter i'll be checking email regularly but not devoting huge chunks of time to editing. fuck that noyze. then next week i'll probably work 35 hours or so between tuesday noon and thursday COB... so the upside to this is, i don't need to burn up two days' vacation for tomorrow and friday.
them as knows me long time know i'm going to chicago for the Grabby (Gay Porno) Awards and the International Mr. Leather convention and competition. (See here for a photo-decorated recap of last year's Memorial Day Weekend in Chicago.) This is always a great, naughty time, where I spend 4 to 5 days in an unabated state of semi- or full arousal. And this is the first year I get to do it on Viagra.
so i packed last night and cleaned up the house a bit.
complicating matters is the fact that my three maintenance prescriptions—two for Hep B and one for hypertension—run out tomorrow, and I let them go too long before starting the process for getting refills via pharmacy-by-mail. and i was awfully alarmed to discover that, whereas my TWO previous prescription plans covered all three meds with a flat co-pay, my new insurance labels Hepsera (Adefovir) as a "Tier 3" drug and requires a 20 percent copay. considering Hepsera retails for $600 for a 30-day supply, that means my co-pay would be $1,500 per annum. Jeebus fuck! so i've have the HR head here trying to get an exemption (or change of tier) on my behalf, and i also called my primary care doc to ask whether there's any comparable course of treatment that might be lower on Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield's formulary. he recommended something called Truvada, which is primarily prescribed for HIV but is a combo of similar drugs to both Hepsera and Epivir, my current cocktail (one non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor [RTI] and one non-nucleotide RTI). i'm sure these drugs have not been proven as effective on HBV, but so far as i can tell they were put through clinical trials for HIV only. and Truvada's on the menu for a $20 co-pay for a 30-day supply, so i'm going to try it for a month & get bloodwork at the end to see whether there's any change in my HBV viral load (which has been undetectable since i started treatment 3 years ago).
hmmm, this hasn't been terribly random... how's this: there's a new mole on my face. brand new. just showed up. flat, dark brown, not even a millimeter in diameter, to the left of and slightly below my nose. i've known for a while that moles can spontaneously appear at any time in life, but i haven't noticed a new one in decades.
what else? there are always houseflies in my bathroom. i cannot figure it out. every day when i get home there's one or two flies in my bathroom. the windows are always shut. the door is also always kept shut, and while a fly (indeed, a friggin' cicada) could get in above and below the door, i can't think why they WOULD, so regularly, when there's hardly ever any in the main room or bedroom. houseflies breed in SHIT, not standing water, so where do they come from? there is no standing shit in my bathroom. and if they are hatching inside the bathroom, why are there only one or two?
i finally have an iPod.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maestro_live and Fabian gave me one of their two, and maestro just yesterday bought a new (tiny, sexy) model on eBay to replace it. mine is 60 Gb and my entire (non-classical) CD collection fits on less than half of it. i am thinking i'm going to use it as a portable photo gallery as well, so i can show potential models the kind of work i do rather than just give them a card and hope they look at my website.
guess that's about it for now... i'm taking my sweet, tiny little laptop (courtesy of a random Worst Buy employee, to the chagrin of Worst Buy corporate) with me to Chicago so i may be posting somewhat throughout the weekend. wish me fuck.
the Cheese Lord concert on Sunday was really pretty terrific. The Cathedral of Mary our Queen (in Baltimore) is indeed a cathedral... huge vaulted ceiling. the sound is amazing. the whole group could hear the whole group and so it was easy to stay in tune with each other. on the pieces that ended forte the whole big beautiful chord just rang for like 3 seconds after we had shut up. it was a really nice way to end a tremendously busy season. about half the lords went out for Indian food afterward; i was pleased to find that the jumbo shrimp in garlic-ginger paste was NOT as good as mine :) and the raita was a skosh too cumin-seedy. but the creamed spinach (saag? or palak? we discussed, without enlightenment, the difference) was luscious and uniquely spiced. and the conversation was equally delicious.
now it's proposal time, of course, and my chicago trip is already et into: tomorrow morning i have to facilitate a review of the proposal first draft by conference call. thereafter i'll be checking email regularly but not devoting huge chunks of time to editing. fuck that noyze. then next week i'll probably work 35 hours or so between tuesday noon and thursday COB... so the upside to this is, i don't need to burn up two days' vacation for tomorrow and friday.
them as knows me long time know i'm going to chicago for the Grabby (Gay Porno) Awards and the International Mr. Leather convention and competition. (See here for a photo-decorated recap of last year's Memorial Day Weekend in Chicago.) This is always a great, naughty time, where I spend 4 to 5 days in an unabated state of semi- or full arousal. And this is the first year I get to do it on Viagra.
so i packed last night and cleaned up the house a bit.
complicating matters is the fact that my three maintenance prescriptions—two for Hep B and one for hypertension—run out tomorrow, and I let them go too long before starting the process for getting refills via pharmacy-by-mail. and i was awfully alarmed to discover that, whereas my TWO previous prescription plans covered all three meds with a flat co-pay, my new insurance labels Hepsera (Adefovir) as a "Tier 3" drug and requires a 20 percent copay. considering Hepsera retails for $600 for a 30-day supply, that means my co-pay would be $1,500 per annum. Jeebus fuck! so i've have the HR head here trying to get an exemption (or change of tier) on my behalf, and i also called my primary care doc to ask whether there's any comparable course of treatment that might be lower on Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield's formulary. he recommended something called Truvada, which is primarily prescribed for HIV but is a combo of similar drugs to both Hepsera and Epivir, my current cocktail (one non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor [RTI] and one non-nucleotide RTI). i'm sure these drugs have not been proven as effective on HBV, but so far as i can tell they were put through clinical trials for HIV only. and Truvada's on the menu for a $20 co-pay for a 30-day supply, so i'm going to try it for a month & get bloodwork at the end to see whether there's any change in my HBV viral load (which has been undetectable since i started treatment 3 years ago).
hmmm, this hasn't been terribly random... how's this: there's a new mole on my face. brand new. just showed up. flat, dark brown, not even a millimeter in diameter, to the left of and slightly below my nose. i've known for a while that moles can spontaneously appear at any time in life, but i haven't noticed a new one in decades.
what else? there are always houseflies in my bathroom. i cannot figure it out. every day when i get home there's one or two flies in my bathroom. the windows are always shut. the door is also always kept shut, and while a fly (indeed, a friggin' cicada) could get in above and below the door, i can't think why they WOULD, so regularly, when there's hardly ever any in the main room or bedroom. houseflies breed in SHIT, not standing water, so where do they come from? there is no standing shit in my bathroom. and if they are hatching inside the bathroom, why are there only one or two?
i finally have an iPod.
maestro_live and Fabian gave me one of their two, and maestro just yesterday bought a new (tiny, sexy) model on eBay to replace it. mine is 60 Gb and my entire (non-classical) CD collection fits on less than half of it. i am thinking i'm going to use it as a portable photo gallery as well, so i can show potential models the kind of work i do rather than just give them a card and hope they look at my website. guess that's about it for now... i'm taking my sweet, tiny little laptop (courtesy of a random Worst Buy employee, to the chagrin of Worst Buy corporate) with me to Chicago so i may be posting somewhat throughout the weekend. wish me fuck.