Shift /ʃɪft/ (n)

in the continuing comedy of errors that is my body, my thumb hurts. this isn't even the thumb on the same hand as the other injury, so i guess i've been overcompensating. i've been resting and icing it all day and am hoping it will settle down on its own... i really don't want to deal with more hand pain than i've already got.

thanksgiving was nice; i got to see some family i hadn't seen in a long while, so it was good to catch up. (also i had some excellent pumpkin cheesecake.) other than that, there hasn't been a lot going on in irl news.

this week's ff14 update is that i'm pretty much done farming mogtomes aside from weeklies, so it's been back to the diadem. i am nearly done grade 3 botany, at which point it will be on to grade 3 mining. then i'm home free. (i am not even remotely home free; i still have 200k+ points to get in both botanist and miner.) other than that i've been working on the crafting portion of the ishgard restoration grind; i really should be working on the moon crafts as well but i haven't caught a lot of weather windows for it lately.

in reading news, i did not end up continuing the trilogy i was struggling with. instead i read a quick, lighthearted sci-fi romp, and have since started a space opera, bethany jacobs's kindom trilogy. i'm only halfway through the first book, but if it sticks the landing it's definitely going to be a favorite: excellent writing, characters, and plotting in a genuinely fascinating worldbuild. the characters are really what's selling it more than anything; one of the leads is refreshingly unlikeable and makes for a great character to follow.

that's about it for now. i really hope my body chills out in the coming weeks, because i am so over all this pain...