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More news today from my oncologist. Unless something crops up to contraindicate, we're committing to chemo. This is based on the MRI results, and her further discussions with my cancer surgeon about my case.
I have some followups in San Francisco the week of 7/20, including further imaging studies of the various sites, and a full chest imaging to evaluate the lung spot and see if there are more lung spots.
I meet with my Portland oncologist on 7/27 to formally prescribe the chemotherapy. On 7/29 I have the chemotherapy orientation class. Sometime thereafter (as yet unscheduled) I will have the port put in — I'll be a Harkonnen! — then commence a six month course, with a break at midpoint for evaluation through further imaging studies.
So sometime in early August I'll be entering the magical land of chemo. This makes WorldCon very iffy, though we'll look at scheduling issues. I'm not going to delay treatment just for the sake of a Con trip, but if it all fits together, that can be my hurrah. I am probably good for all commitments before then. On the plus side, I can probably get the first draft of Endurance wrapped before the killjuice starts melting my brain.
In other news, my mom is in the ER in Portland tonight with a blood clotting issue which is not particularly serious now but needs to be addressed before it becomes serious. I, of course, am in San Francisco, and my sister is at the Washington coast.
Never rains but it pours around here.
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) calendula_witch and I spent a four-day weekend at Iron Springs, at the writer's retreat and conference there. We were among old friends and new, including davidlevine, kateyule, jackwilliambell, csinman, criada, kehrli, kaerfel, spencimusprime, Chrissy, thecrimsony, a cast of almost a dozen others whose LJ handles are unknown to me or have slipped my mind, and of course our host, karenjunker. Iron Springs is an ageing (to the point of being nigh post-apocalyptic) resort that is completely off the grid with respect to cell phones and Internet, so it was a very focused weekend.
This is where calendula_witch and I first met last year, and such a long, strange year it's been. At least two of the folks there last year tried to warn her off of me (Hah! Take that!), but everyone this year seemed quite happy that we had eventually worked things out and are quite happy our own selves. Lots of walking, lots of writing, lots of workshopping, some good conversation, a guerrilla underwear signing, and a fair amount of romance.
Came back this afternoon and put calendula_witch on a plane back for San Francisco. I'm exhausted, and so is she. I'll fly down tomorrow to hit my second opinion appointment on Tuesday for the cancer stuff, then spend the rest of the week with her. So indeed a grand weekend away, with a grand week to come.
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Tomorrow morning, calendula_witch and I are off to Iron Springs. We first met at this same retreat last year. It took a while for us to figure out what we might mean to each other, and we'll never be done with that process, but making the trip again this year with the love of my life is an intensely wonderful gift from the universe.
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calendula_witch arrives this evening. At a very stupidly early hour of the morrow we have my MRI to chase this liver mass a little further down the cancer road. Then we're off to Iron Springs until Sunday evening. I expect to be off the grid for almost four days starting tomorrow morning, as I believe there is neither Internet nor cell service where we're going to be.
So no link salad, no other wit and erudition, and slow-to-respond email. Y'all play nice while we're gone. Talk amongst yourselves.
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It's amazing how time flies by when you get up at 3:40 in the morning. And that was me sleeping in... It's barely past noon and here's what I've accomplished so far today:
- Exercised
- Morning blog roll
- Shower (with hair wash, takes a while)
- Two and half hours on Endurance
- Cooked breakfast for self
- Worked on story critique for two friends
- Had a sweet phone call with calendula_witch
- Submitted the final story for The Sky That Wraps
- Caught up on email
- Went to grocery store
- Did laundry
- Made week's salad and lemonade/limeade
- Cooked lunch for self, the_child and her friend I—
- Changed clothes for the Scholes baby shower
Shortly, off to the baby shower with the_child and tillyjane. Dinner with evening with saycestsay, and a possible camillealexa sighting. Tomorrow, more Endurance, a Father's Day Brunch with the usual suspects, some cancer paperwork for my upcoming second opinion appointment, a final pass through Iron Springs critique, draft another Tor.com blog post and read through calendula_witch's Nightcraft Mother dailies to date. Week to come: Doctor's appointment Monday. calendula_witch arrives Wednesday. MRI Thursday. Then off to Iron Springs!
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For those playing along with the home game version of "Where's Jay", the next few weeks have slipped into startling complexity. In brief:
6/15-6/19 Omaha, NE
6/19-6/25 Portland, OR
6/25-6/28 Iron Springs, WA (with calendula_witch)
6/28-6/29 Portland, OR
6/29-7/5 San Francisco, CA (with calendula_witch)
7/5-7/12 Ocean Park, WA (with the_child)
And, of course, working two hours every day on Endurance as I go along.
I'm currently scheduled to go to Omaha 7/13-7/17, then back to San Francisco 7/17-7/21, but that's all a bit iffy depending on where medical stuff goes. In that vein, I have cancer-related appointments of various kinds on 6/19, 6/22, 6/25 and 6/30. By early July we'll hopefully have a much better idea of what comes next on the cancer front, which in turn will govern whether I make it to WorldCon and so forth.
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Here's the current calendar for readings and appearances around Green [ Powell's | Amazon ], which will be released on Tuesday, June 9th.
Friday, June 12th, 7:00 pm — Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing [Portland area]
Saturday, July 18th, 3:00 pm — Borderlands Books [San Francisco]
Friday, July 24th, 7:00 pm — University Books [Seattle]
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JayCon is his coming Saturday! Mark your calendars: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]
A reader reacts to Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon thb | Audible ] — Not so much with the liking, this one.
A reader reacts to The New Weird
A reader reacts to Paper Cities
The museum of unworkable devices
How many spoken languages? How many computer languages?
?otD: Is your karma manual or automatic?
6/1/2009 Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride This morning's weigh-in: 217.2 Currently reading: The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold; A Long Line of Cells by Lewis Thomas
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JayCon is next week! Mark your calendars: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]
Dept of Things Man Was Meant To Wot Not Of: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — What I look like in a corset. Luckily, you can also see calendula_witch in the photo, which takes away some of the pain.
A reader reacts to METAtropolis — Well, ok, a listener.
Crime fiction to science fiction
Maps of an alien Earth — Centauri Dreams with some cool exoplanetary science.
Green-glowing monkeys have green-glowing babies — (Thanks to lillypond.)
Aircraft factories! — (Snurched from Dark Roasted Blend.)
How gliders are like nuclear deterrence — Freakonomics with a squib on risk analysis.
It Sticks in My Craw — The National Review on pronouncing Sotomayor's name. Always a class act, those conservatives.
Sotomayor and 2010. And 2012. — The Edge of the American West with an interesting piece on the Sotomayor pick. I think he's right — the GOP just can't stop themselves.
?otD: Arugula? WTF is arugula?
5/28/2009 Body movement: 60 minute staionary bike ride This morning's weigh-in: 219.2 Currently reading: The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold; A Long Line of Cells by Lewis Thomas
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Mark your calendars now. In celebration of my natal anniversary, JayCon IX, my 9th annual 37th birthday party, will be Saturday, June 6th (oddly, my actual birthday), here in Portland from 1 to 5 pm at the Flying Pie in SE Portland. Come help me celebrate both my birthday and the release of Green [ Powell's | Amazon ], which will be out that month.
Flying Pie Pizzeria
7804 SE Stark Street
Portland, 97215
(503) 254-2016
http://www.flying-pie.com/
[ Google Maps ]
As is traditional for JayCon, Paul Carpentier is specifically not invited.
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"But we're both bottoms. If we went on a date, we'd just sit there and grin at each other for three hours."
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In Baltimore now. My colleague and I were in the wrong city in Delaware, which took 75 minutes to correct this morning. All went well, now hanging in Hilton BWI Airport. Dinner at 7 if any of you Balticonners are in early, or local fen/writers want to come by and nosh with me.
And yes, I do know that Balticon is here tomorrow, but calendula_witch will be going to BayCon tomorrow. While I love you all here on the East Coast, she's there, you know?
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calendula_witch, the_child and I are off to do Saturday things. Some shopping, some hanging around, a cheese expedition.
We're winding up at my parents' about 5 for a cancer party with Mom and Dad, tillyjane (my other mother), lillypond, The Niece, The Niece's dad and his sweetie, kenscholes, jens_fire (and onboard twins!), and the delightful K—.
calendula_witch is back to San Francisco tomorrow morning. I'm off to Omaha on Monday, then Delaware on Wednesday (anyone down for dinner in Dover Wednesday night?), then San Francisco next Friday so calendula_witch and I can hit BayCon. Cancer news when I have it; still waiting on the PET scan results as well as the biopsy on the polyp.
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Don't forget to enter the new caption contest [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — Time permitting, I'll take this to a poll tomorrow.
The Open Question Thread is still active [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]
I am Toastmaster for World Fantasy Convention 2009 — See some, all or none of you in San Jose.
What's in an American name? — An interesting graphic from Strange Maps.
Criggo on swine flu — Hahahahah.
Are Americans driving less?
An heir and a spare — Freakonomics with some lateral thinking on SCOTUS nominees.
?otD: Who took a face from the ancient gallery?
5/9/2009 Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride This morning's weigh-in: 216.0 Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville, Engine Summer by John Crowley
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Mark your calendars now. In celebration of my natal anniversary, JayCon IX, my 9th annual 37th birthday party, will be Saturday, June 6th (oddly, my actual birthday), here in Portland from 1 to 5 pm at the Flying Pie in SE Portland. Come help me celebrate both my birthday and the release of Green [ Powell's | Amazon ], which will be out that month.
Flying Pie Pizzeria
7804 SE Stark Street
Portland, 97215
(503) 254-2016
http://www.flying-pie.com/
[ Google Maps ]
As is traditional for JayCon, Paul Carpentier is specifically not invited.
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