Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: The concert playback from Gafilk.

Apparently, I am an enormous nerd.

Since it's a "talking about birthdays" kind of a day, here's my own (belated) birthday report:

Last Wednesday was my birthday, and it was, quite frankly, pretty miserable. I had gone home from work early on Tuesday, suffering from a nasty cold. It had mostly cleared up by Wednesday morning, which was awesome, although there was still some, well, let's call it "blockage." The "blockage" continued to reduce over the course of the day, until somewhere around noon, when I sneezed, knocking the last of it free...

...and unleashing the GALLONS OF BLOOD I had apparently been storing in my sinuses, courtesy of an unnoticed six-hour-long nosebleed. I managed to burst a blood vessel deep inside my head with all the sneezing and misery of Tuesday, and then, well. Bleeding! Like it was an Olympic sport! Accompanied by dizziness from, you know, LOSS OF BLOOD. I managed to make it to the bathroom (barely), where I passed out on the floor, and was later found by a co-worker unconscious in a pool of my own blood. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.

(Yes, I have seen my doctor; no, it was not an aneurysm; it was really and truly just a burst blood vessel, and I am now fine. There have been no repeats of the "massive bleeding followed by passing out" party-time fun.)

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I was sent home from work after turning the bathroom into my own private horror movie, and—after medical what-not and transit—met up with my mother and youngest sister for our usual Wednesday errands. We actually put off going to the comic book store in order to drive to Berkeley and eat Indian food for dinner, because it made sense from a traffic perspective. I complained a few times about the lack of cake, but not with any real passion, as I was a) tired, and b) still a little out of it. We ate. We drove back to Concord. We went to the comic book store.

Upon entry, I declared happily, "It's my BIRTHDAY!", since it's awesome when your birthday corresponds to new comic book day. The staff looked theatrically shocked...probably because that was about when Libby (the owner's wife) emerged from the office with a cake.

Yes. A cake.

MY COMIC STORE GOT ME A BIRTHDAY CAKE.

Did you ever need proof that I was an enormous nerd? Because if you did, here it is: my comic book store GOT ME A BIRTHDAY CAKE. That is how much time I spend there. BUYING ME A CAKE amounts of time.

I love my life. Medical emergencies and all.
Tags: comic books, family, geekiness, in the wild, medical fu, support local bookstores
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  • 114 comments

ohari

January 12 2011, 21:16:08 UTC 6 years ago

Dude!
Anything that ends with you in a puddle of blood is Right Out, please.

Happy Birthday!

seanan_mcguire

January 12 2011, 21:48:51 UTC 6 years ago

So noted.

ohari

January 12 2011, 21:54:51 UTC 6 years ago

:)


Will you be anywhere within 300 miles of St.Louis this year?

seanan_mcguire

January 12 2011, 22:15:16 UTC 6 years ago

I don't know. What's within three hundred miles of St. Louis?

ohari

January 12 2011, 22:59:12 UTC 6 years ago

Let's see. StLouis. Kansas City. Chicago. Memphis. Des Moines (yes it IS a real place, I promise). Indianapolis. Dayton. Certain parts of Arkansas. Branson. Nashville, maybe?

keristor

January 13 2011, 09:12:19 UTC 6 years ago

"Des Moines (yes it IS a real place, I promise)."

But how do you pronounce it? To rhyme with "fez loins", or "day mwans", or "dee mwan", or? I've heard at least those three, but as far as I know I've never met anyone from there.

art_of_idiom

January 27 2011, 19:15:24 UTC 6 years ago

Rhyme it with "day loin". "Mwan" would be the correct French. Iowans are not known for their French accents.

seanan_mcguire

January 13 2011, 15:38:24 UTC 6 years ago

Columbus? I'm planning to be in Columbus in October...

ohari

January 13 2011, 15:52:35 UTC 6 years ago

wow. I threw that one in because I have friends who go do Dayton and Columbus every year for Mensa events, but I've never been. Glad I did. What's in Columbus?

seanan_mcguire

January 13 2011, 16:04:50 UTC 6 years ago

The Ohio Valley Filk Festival, in late October. I love it so.

ohari

January 13 2011, 17:52:16 UTC 6 years ago

I see a trip to Ohio in the Fall in my future. :)

You did DuckCon in Chicago a couple of years ago (2009, maybe? I missed 2010...), is there any chance you'll be back there? I heard there was a total Filk meltdown there last year...

seanan_mcguire

January 19 2011, 20:38:59 UTC 6 years ago

Not for quite some time, I'm afraid. Right now, I have enough convention commitments that unless the convention is paying for me, it's a lower priority.

Wow, does that feel weird to say.