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A few hours of proto-migraine (nipped in the bud, but leaving its chemtrail in my brain) has made me this odd mix of peaceful and restless. It's an altered state, it is. There's a pleasant-ish buzz in my brain, and it makes me feel one step removed from myself.

I think what happened is I got too much sun (someotherguy and I walked a few miles today in the sun -- I think I need a sunhat). I tried to watch a movie with my sweeties, but I started getting nauseated, so I took a break and some aspirin, and it helped, but it's left me feeling alternately drained and high. I must say, I don't really mind this particular residual effect of my migraines. Plus, migraine time is really the only time I can consume caffeinated stuff and feel *better* instead of worse.

In my brainiac haze, I figured out some of my NaNo novel. It's going to be called "Living without Consequences" (the title came when I misheard "Anna Begins" -- "then I'm gonna have to think about the consequences" became "...live without the consequences"), and it's about a woman who is surprised when the geographical cures she seeks bring her closer to her past instead of taking her away from it. I'm going to start musing about this a fair bit in here, I think, but I'll put it under cut tags.

"Every time she sneezes, I believe it's love..."

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I'm so in love with the whole wide world right now. Yes, I know it's the caffeine talking, but it's also me talking, so there.

A short list of things I'm in love with. Feel free to add yours:

• Plums we picked from sogwife's tree
• Friends who can disagree without getting belligerent
• Friends who let me know when I'm being belligerent
• My own blood
• Knowing that I've chosen a life that works for me
• My inchoate NaNo novel
• xkcd
• paperbackswap/swapacd
• Kookie Jar
• My body, including the defective parts (note: arguments that none of my body parts are defective will be met with scorn and ridicule)
• kissing
• My newest musical boyfriend (He doesn't know he's my boyfriend, and that's okay. My love doesn't require reciprocation; ask anyone.)
• klwalton, who has spent the last nearly ten years being a validation of my theory that pure solid good exists in the world
• Me. I'm weeping right now about how long it took me to think it was really okay to love myself. I haven't had much trouble in my life with the actual loving-me part -- it's just felt like a shameful truth for most of my life. I'm so glad I don't have to hide it any more.
• Pine nuts

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