Avalon -- not the one you're thinking of

Resisting the urge to start re-reading Avalon again. I read the first half of it in one go some years ago and the last half as it was posted. I was actually quite bummed out when Josh laid down the pen on that one, and the notes on the conclusion only intensified that. I'd love to see the next three years of Avalon following Ceilidh and Phoebe in one arc and Joe in another. Makes me wish I could draw and write!

Terminology question from someone who honestly doesn't know -- would riffing on that be fanfic, slash, or other? (I know it would help if I even looked up those terms first -- consider this question a personal to-do for me.)

Update: To-do to-done. The Ceilidh and Phoebe story arc would indeed be fanfic and (fem)slash, and the Joe story arc would be fanfic but not slash unless he got it on with Alan. Gotcha.

Endocrine daze 2011 part deux

Had my second (and apparently last) endocrinology appointment for the year today. hg A1C is heading in the right direction, *DL is right where it should be, K is a bit high (no doubt due to over-consumption of Diet Pepsi -- got to find some sucralose-sweetened cola with a heap of caffeine), but it won't kill me. It's just an outlying number that the endocrinologist couldn't explain until I pointed the source out to him. I've managed to drop my insulin doses by 30-50% and bring the numbers to a much more consistent state than they were before.

A lot of this is no doubt due to cutting out the gluten. Before it seemed that there was a hidden factor that affected me on a day-by-day, and often meal-by-meal basis -- it just seemed that consistent dosing brought inconsistent results. Looking back it seems likely that was a reaction to the gluten causing my digestion to do dodgy things. I feel a heck of a lot better now that I'm off the stuff, anyway.