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Holy shit you guys. I slept through the night on only melatonin for a sleep drug, which hasn't happened in a while. I woke up at 6.30 and rolled out of bed around 6.35 to take my levothyroxine (I think that's how it's spelled) and then showered, exercised, put on some eye makeup, got some language quizzes done, chatted with the braintwin and checked my email and got myself moving ALL BEFORE 8. This hasn't happened literally in months. Not regularly maybe all year, though probably more often in the beginning of the year than recently. Definitely in at least three months. This is fucking amazing. It's still too early to tell if there will be any side effects, if the dosage is proper, anything like that. At least for scientific certain. But holy shit I really do feel better almost immediately than I have in a long time, as Aunt said happened to her.

I'm a bit crabby about how much time I lost to my thyroid slowly petering out, but definitely happy that now I have some signs to look for (consistently not being able to get out of bed efficiently, not being able to coordinate multiple writing streams is another the braintwin and I figured out) and can keep an eye out for that in the future. One aunt did need to have her dose regularly upped, another only needed to have hers upped once. So we'll see how I do. Mine is apparently not very inactive, but enough for me to feel it and for the doctor to go "yep here's your pill." With considerably more confidence given that I told him about the family history years ago and we've been watching my thyroid function wobble at "just about good enough" for years.

I opted to stop at 72k worth of Nanonovel instead of 75k because that's where the story ended but I still got it done in 21 days holy shit. And I think it came out over 50% correct, which is amazing. It might have come out closer to 80% correct, I think that's the max I'd give it, but I don't want to get too cocky until after A's had her first pass at it. But holy crap you guys I don't think I've ever written that fast, that accurately. Not even Turing Shrugged went that fast.

Which means of course now I have to work on all the other shit I put aside for Nanowrimo. With the added bonus of being properly medicated and having my brain running at full speed freight train speed again. Let's see if I can list out my current projects. (And while I'm at it I should make a writing schedule for the coming month again.)

1. The Body Shop. I have no idea how this is going to go, heh. I think it's in the same verse as the Evander story though. I need to branch out of urban fantasy.
2. The Wild Weird West section of The Long Road. Get that drafted and in, and then finish drafting the Spanish flu stuff and then see what I've got with that, because this book is going to be forever long and I need to get the story-in-stories done and then figure out how much is surrounding text. I think.
3. Nerd Girls. Got a lot of fiddly shit to deal with with this.
4. A couple short stories I need to finish packaging and submit. Wait, no, only one.
5. There is no 5 there is only Zuul.

The good thing is one of those submissions doesn't have a deadline and the deadline on the other is Dec 15, so nothing's a rush. I found out way way too late about an agent having open queries so that's going to wait.

I'm hoping I remember to do languages this evening now that I'm not quite so single-mindedly focused on finishing Nanowrimo. Granted languages will probably consist of entering vocab into my phone so I can memorize it but I might do an exercise or two as well. I'm spinning around a bit because suddenly I have more energy to fill my time with things that are not sit on the computer, write, and occasionally play stupid iPhone games. I guess the thing to do is start with the writing fiddly task to do list, make other to-do lists on Habitica, and either tackle them one thing at a day or a bunch of small things one afternoon after work.

So glad this was a problem with a simple, known, tested, and low-cost solution. So so glad.