"Scarce to be counted filling the darkness with order and light."

[nausicaa83]

I had sort of a fight with my oncologist yesterday. I was supposed to start on this antibiotic therapy, but I'm already taking some other meds, so he and my doctor consulted and gave me these "sort of toxic, but you're young, so no worries" pills. I wasn't sure how many I was supposed to take daily, so I called him again and asked him. He was surprised I didn't know, and when I also added that it was the week of my period, and asked him if it was okay if I started this therapy now, he told me "well, of course, you HAVE to, otherwise it's dangerous". After a speechless minute, I asked him how I was supposed to know that, and then he went very quiet and told me he had forgotten I wasn't a doctor, and apologized.

This mix-up actually happens to me a lot, because my mom was a doctor and I grew up in hospitals, so I have a good knowledge of the stuff and use medical terms often (to my therapist's great amusement). But I'm still an ignorant person who doesn't have a degree in medicine. I'm a normal patient, completely ignorant of the matter, for fuck's sake! Thankfully I thought of asking him, because I worry a lot and fixate on every detail, but if I had been a little more trustful or distracted I could have seriously hurt myself with the wrong therapy. Terrific.

Anyway, apologies accepted very grudgingly, I started this therapy on schedule, and so far I'm having no side effects whatsoever. I'm still angry about this misunderstanding, so I decided to start Assassin's Creed III because it's been sitting there for months and I wanted to relax by going on a killing spree. I just finished Haytham's sequences, and after falling utterly in love with him I got that bucket-of-cold-water-in-the-face final scene, what the hell, I was not expecting that at all! I ended up with a couple of bugs too, as I had been warned (one of the guys I killed turned into a cooked spaghetti monster), and I'm surprised the missions are already very hard at this point of the game. I hate being stealthy, and quite enjoy throwing myself at guards and start massacring around, but so far it's been only stealthy missions with very suspicious officials, and I had to re-do them multiple times before I got them right. Can't wait to have more weapons at my disposal at least.

Comments

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning on Creed. I hate being stealthy in games. I need something new to play. My interest in Skyrim just sort of fizzled out as soon as I got the Elder Scroll, even though there is still a lot more I could do in it.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

There were a couple of missions where I had to shut it off because I was just too angry at it. I had to do almost every single mission ten times, because they kept spotting me either at the very beginning, or when I was about to kill the last guy. So annoying. What I love about Assassin's Creed is that there are usually many ways to complete a mission, and you can play it your way. I prefer attacking from the rooftops, and then massacring everyone, and only sometimes go stealthy and hide in the crowd. Usually with Ezio I could do whatever I liked as long as I killed the guy at the end, while this time you either do it as the game wants you to, or you go back to the previous checkpoint.

The story is still great, although Boston can't be compared to the cities of the previous games.

[stardust-made.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness. I'm glad you fixate, let me tell you! I hope at least the therapy continues smoothly without any side effects.

I myself am battling a horrible throat infection, and am pretty sure I'm overwhelmed by some recent developments, because I've been shivering and feeling like &^%*$. (You know, happy change is still a change, hence a challenge to those of us who are more emotional.O_o) So I'm extra sympathetic to any health plights.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry, love! I definitely can't wait for the spring, when we should all get better. Here it's raining again, but at least it's not cold. As long as I don't get my feet wet I should be fine (step into a puddle -> instant flu).

In the meantime, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7m657-K0hyk) should make you feel better. ^^

[stardust-made.livejournal.com]

Ha, yes, I woke up this morning and people had already made this:



and wallpapers, too!

:)

(I also found this and laughed so much on some of them: 20 Books We Hope The Winchesters Find in the Men Of Letters Library.)

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

That wallpaper must be MINE. \o/

I would read a few of those books myself, actually. :D