Bad luck, bad news
Sep. 2nd, 2004 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanithryudoApparently someone up there doesn't like me this afternoon. Or maybe it's punishment because I *didn't* almost fall asleep in my morning back-to-back lectures.
Anyhow, I was almost home after having lunch with![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-userinfo.gif)
cashew, minding my own business, when I felt a sharp pain on my foot. I look down to see that there was a bee on my foot, right behind the tongue of my shoe. How the froo it got *in* there, while I was walking no less, is a mystery. But it didn't take a genius to figure out it just stung me.
So anyhow, I hurry home and look up bee sting treatments online, hoping I won't have to visit the Tang (Campus Health Center for those of you non-Cal-ites). Then followed like 5-10 minutes of trying to figure out if the stupid stinger was still in there or do I need to flay myself to get it out or something. This was made harder by the fact that the sting was in a place that I can't examine or get too without contorting myself yoga-like... AND it was swelling and itching like mad at the time. Finally I decided that it must've fallen out when I flicked the bee off before and lifted my socks to check it on the road (yes, it stung me *through* my socks... which is the down side to Chinese-style silk/nylon socks instead of the thick cotton American brands). Then I took a quick shower and applied some lotion, seeing as how I don't have any meat tenderizer or backing soda (which were other suggestions for home-made treatments).
Anyway, since it's my first bee sting ever, and evidently I'm not allergic to it, it's mostly faded away by now, with only a bit of discomfort when I touch the area affected. I've come to have a serious dislike of bees for the meantime though. And maybe acquired a paranoia of fragrant/flowery sidewalks...
So that was the bad luck part. The bad news was when I checked my email. I got one from the admins at fanfiction.net, telling me that the the fic I wrote withcashew, "Gimme That Ring", a parody crossing over Rurouni Kenshi and LOTR, has be removed from the archive because ffnet doesn't allow script/chat-type entries.
Now, this wouldn't be bad at all, since that was hardly one of my best fics, even allowing for the parody factor. The bad part is that I looked through my harddrive and apparently I *don't* have a hardcopy of that fic. It must've been done in the time period between last December (when I backed up my harddrive) and when my compter crashed and got formatted in March. And while I do remember we also posted it to the NEB board at CBR, *that* one is also gone since the forums crashed in May.
Which means it's pretty much gone for good, unlesscashew kept a copy somewhere. Damn.
Anyhow, I was almost home after having lunch with
cashew, minding my own business, when I felt a sharp pain on my foot. I look down to see that there was a bee on my foot, right behind the tongue of my shoe. How the froo it got *in* there, while I was walking no less, is a mystery. But it didn't take a genius to figure out it just stung me.So anyhow, I hurry home and look up bee sting treatments online, hoping I won't have to visit the Tang (Campus Health Center for those of you non-Cal-ites). Then followed like 5-10 minutes of trying to figure out if the stupid stinger was still in there or do I need to flay myself to get it out or something. This was made harder by the fact that the sting was in a place that I can't examine or get too without contorting myself yoga-like... AND it was swelling and itching like mad at the time. Finally I decided that it must've fallen out when I flicked the bee off before and lifted my socks to check it on the road (yes, it stung me *through* my socks... which is the down side to Chinese-style silk/nylon socks instead of the thick cotton American brands). Then I took a quick shower and applied some lotion, seeing as how I don't have any meat tenderizer or backing soda (which were other suggestions for home-made treatments).
Anyway, since it's my first bee sting ever, and evidently I'm not allergic to it, it's mostly faded away by now, with only a bit of discomfort when I touch the area affected. I've come to have a serious dislike of bees for the meantime though. And maybe acquired a paranoia of fragrant/flowery sidewalks...
So that was the bad luck part. The bad news was when I checked my email. I got one from the admins at fanfiction.net, telling me that the the fic I wrote with
cashew, "Gimme That Ring", a parody crossing over Rurouni Kenshi and LOTR, has be removed from the archive because ffnet doesn't allow script/chat-type entries.Now, this wouldn't be bad at all, since that was hardly one of my best fics, even allowing for the parody factor. The bad part is that I looked through my harddrive and apparently I *don't* have a hardcopy of that fic. It must've been done in the time period between last December (when I backed up my harddrive) and when my compter crashed and got formatted in March. And while I do remember we also posted it to the NEB board at CBR, *that* one is also gone since the forums crashed in May.
Which means it's pretty much gone for good, unless
cashew kept a copy somewhere. Damn.
