shadowsong26

i finished watching batman the animated series on amazon prime. excellent show. i started rewatching superman but kept getting distracted because the voice talent (other than clancy brown) just isn't quite as top tier as the other shows. then i found justice league unlimited on tubi; i'm pretty sure i've never seen all of it, have probably seen some of it, and remember almost none of it.

i'm five episodes in and starting to see why i don't remember any of them. first, of course, is the reason i never picked up the jlu dvds: j'onn gets demoted from team member to mission control, aka the guy who gets maybe two lines every few episodes telling someone not to fly off the handle right before they inevitably fly off the handle. waste of a great voice actor. second, i don't like the artstyle change: they lost the line weighting and much of the hyper-stylization that made the timmverse look good, and the scenes are much harder to visually read now. third, the writing... maybe i'm just being influenced by nostalgia but it feels a lot worse than previous installments? like i said, five episodes, and there's been (not in this order) one pretty fun one, one major stinker, one straight retelling of a comics story that did a perfectly cromulent job, one just boring one, and one where the only redeeming quality was kevin conroy. admittedly it did feature him singing very beautifully in character as batman for Reasons, which is a hell of a redeeming quality, but it also had b'wana beast so on the whole i think it is still heavier than the feather of ma'at.

(...i may be on a blood sugar rollercoaster and not entirely in control of my metaphors. anyway.)

point is. there's three seasons. i have been livebageling the episodes over on tumblr if y'all are interested. i am not sure how far i will continue. jl:tas didn't have any really good episodes in its first season, so i feel like i don't want to be too much harsher on its continuation, but it had a *lot* more carl lumbly and kevin conroy to keep me listening.

look we all knew i had a voice kink okay next question

and then my second CGM fell off yesterday not eight hours after i put it on -- i snagged it slightly on a pillowcase, not having realized that the only reason the first one stayed on for the full duration is apparently that the lady at the hospital taped it on for me with one of those little clear patches they put over an IV so it doesn't fall out -- and you can't reapply them so i am now two weeks short on my planned blood sugar test supplies to get all the way to my endocrinologist appointment in three more weeks. i have enough test strips for nine more days *if* i test only before meals (and if i eat three meals a day which let me tell you internets is not helping the anorexia at all), the insurance continues to deny my prior auths to force me to use the recalled test strips and presumably die of the error by way of proving they won't work for me, i was able to get an approval from the CGM manufacturer for a replacement but it'll take three to five business days to arrive... i meant to get a telemed appointment with my doctor today to see if she can prescribe me another CGM also (she expects the insurance to fight it which is why she hasn't prescribed it already, so i was waiting to see if i'd hear anything about the test strips first), but i was so stressed from freaking out about the CGM yesterday that i didn't get to sleep till 6am, so i rescheduled my pap smear and then slept all day...

the only good thing going on right now is that the us postal service, thank fuck, does at-home pickup on packages with prepaid mailing labels. which means i was able to schedule a pickup to mail back my heart monitor sticky instead of having to hike a mile to the mailbox. also i have the heart monitor off now so i can take a bath. have i taken a bath? no, because i'm zonked. but i can.

(i did also order a box of those sticky patches so i can tape future CGMs on properly. since apparently that's something i have to do now. and a box of ketone test strips because without the CGM i find myself getting very nervous that i'm coming down with the ketoacidosis again. and a usb dvd player because fuck it, it was half off and had reasonably good reviews and i still have my free amazon prime going, and my current dvd player is ten years old and has been starting to overheat after like four hours of marathoning tv episodes, and inexplicably having the right menu button quit working intermittently as well, which given that it's one of the few things i can do flat on my back is simply not helpful. the dvd player isn't interfering with the batman rewatch because that's on prime video, but once i get to superman i'll need a reliable dvd player. here's hoping this one works because i really can't swing the $40 for a brand-name.)

(also my current dvd player is one of the ones with its own built-in screen that does nothing else, and while i wouldn't be jumping to replace it if it was just overheating -- i can be a little patient -- i'm pretty worried about the button issue. the last two times i had device buttons / touchscreen areas quit working randomly in association with overheating, it was battery swelling issues, and i don't fuck around with the spicy pillows. and this device doesn't have any kind of battery door where i can check on it directly.)

have gotten in touch with the pcp. apparently my insurance is denying the prior auths that have been filed, because the recall for their preferred brand of test strip and meter is not properly in some system or other, i have to assume due to how the regime has gutted the fda to line its pockets. i know the recall is on the fda website itself because i have gone and looked at it there, but obviously one cannot expect an insurance company to look at a website, they're too busy denying every possible sort of care in case somebody might be too sick to fight it.

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