Hiya, welcome to Sailor Coruscant's Archive. I'm your host, Sailor Coruscant, though in real life I go by the (somewhat more prosaic) name 'Catherine Braiding'. I'm a PhD student looking at star formation, who occasionally dabbles in fandom. That means that as you wander around my site, you'll no doubt find fanfiction and fanart for my various projects, but there are also a few original stories (one of which was even published for money - well, gift vouchers), my photo albums (currently under construction) and of course my online diary (which I am going to update any day now)! So please look around, have fun, let me know your thoughts on yaoi and hopefully we'll become friends someday.

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My day to day life is sometimes interesting, sometimes full of insight, and sometimes just plain weird. So, here for the very first time is the totally insane rantings and ravings of Catherine. I don't normally approve of sharing my thoughts with the internet at large, but what the heck. Let's give it a try, shall we?

Friday, February 29, 2008

This is why I have no faith in the medical profession...

1. Sunday I woke up with a blocked ear. Decided to live with it and got on with life.
2. Wednesday I said "bugger that" and went to the medical centre. Doctor #1 said that I had a build up of wax (I thought "really? okay") and that I should buy these expensive ear drops, put them in my ears each night then come back on Friday to get my ears syringed.
3. Did not sleep Wednesday and Thursday nights due to sloshing in ear (and pain last night).
4. Went to medical centre again this morning. Doctor #2 said that I had a middle ear infection, no sign of ever having any wax in my ears at all and that he was disappointed in the other doctor for the misdiagnose. Now I have a nasal spray (and a prescription for antibiotics if the bacteria don't drain when the congestion does).

I just want to go home.

Labels: losing sleep, sickly-Cat

posted by Catherine, 11:25 AM | permanent link | (1) comments

Friday, February 22, 2008

Summary of my week...

I've had a migraine, and a tummy bug (which may have been self-diagnosed as an allergy to goat's cheese, but I'm not sure I want to test that). I've done bugger all at work.

But I did fix my family's broken ps2, and I've almost finished FFX, so maybe I don't completely suck after all.

Labels: cait sith, never going to graduate, playstation, sickly-Cat

posted by Catherine, 7:59 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Headaches and throat infections and trying desperately to recover before heading out to England oh my...

So I'm feeling decidedly crappy, and have been unable to keep my brain focussed on a single thing for more than ten seconds for the last two days, but the doctor thinks that the headaches belong to the throat infection, which is mild and should be gone within a few days. I just have to survive until then.

In the meantime this story has made my week.

Labels: losing sleep, Neil is our god, sickly-Cat

posted by Catherine, 3:53 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Jedi Tim-Tam's Sekrit Hot Lemon Drink Recipe...

Actually, it was my great grandmother's (the more I hear about her, the more I regret that I never really had a chance to know her: she was apparently something of a monty python fan among other awesomenesses). Anyway:

Put the juice of one lemon (or as much as you can manage to get in the mug), less than a teaspoon of honey and a slurp of rum in a mug. Then add about 150mL of warm water (not hot, you don't want to cause evaporation of the good stuff).

Then drink.

PS. You don't have to be sick to enjoy this.

Labels: family, recipes, sickly-Cat, yay vodka

posted by Catherine, 7:59 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Friday, July 13, 2007

blargh...

Finally felt I was human again after all those conferences, and my immune system promptly declared that it was shutting down to recover from all my stresses too. Which means I now have the flu, and am completely unable to function (though for some reason I decided a half-day at work would make me feel better... why?).

The only good thing about all of this is that I finally looked at the ingredients list for those hot lemon drinks and realised that the reason I feel worse after my mum foists one on me is that they contain phenylalanine (try typing that three times fast while under the influence of a cold), which always makes me feel headachey and bleh.

Minako has gone in for service, and we can only hope that she will come out of it okay. The ASA has very nicely given me $200 towards the repairs, which is about the nicest and most generous thing I've ever encountered from such a big organisation.

So anyway, if I'm not online much at the moment, that's why. Sickly, and without my nice computer.

Labels: conferences, iCatherine, sickly-Cat

posted by Catherine, 10:04 AM | permanent link | (1) comments

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Now in pain...

I think I may have broken a toe. *sighs*

Last night after the conference dinner there was observing of the moon and jupiter through the patchy clouds (okay, they were less than patchy after a bit, hence the fact that we didn't try for anything else). Anna didn't make it to the observing, because her jet lag had hit and she was very, very tired.

The point of that digression is that when I got back to the room, it was dark and I didn't want to wake Anna with a light. So naturally I smashed my foot into a cupboard, and now many hours later it still hurts. My toe is swollen, and a little bit bruised. This is very unfun.

The good news is the talks are really interesting, and I'm having a lot of fun. Most of the speakers have embraced the theme of "tell us about your scientific process", which is great because they're all giving such different talks. It's lots of fun.

Labels: conferences, pain, sickly-Cat

posted by Catherine, 8:31 AM | permanent link | (0) comments

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

I have a cold and am in no state to blog...

so here's a photo my mum put up on flickr:

I think that is her on the left, with my grandmother Eileen, Aunty Cathy, and then my great grandparents, of whom Granny Ruth is the only one I knew.

Labels: family, history, old photographs, sickly-Cat

posted by Catherine, 10:41 PM | permanent link | (2) comments