I just realised.

I ... I can create polls now.

I can create polls now.

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Want to make one about the genders, sexualities and general preferences of people who read and write slash. That would be awesome. I could advertise it somewhere to get many, many answers ... only I can't figure out how to keep it simple enough to prevent it from turning into a 30-minute questionaire.

Effort

During the last 13 hours, I have done everything in my might that I could think of to make my neck feel better. With all the care of, uhm, a paranoid perfectionist.

The first thing I did was to lie on my heating pad for a while after going to bed (in the middle of the afternoon, but never mind that) - not without punching my pillow into the most neck-supporting shape I could manage, of course - and then I fell asleep on it, which was not part of the plan and slightly dangerous, but probably did me good. Fortunately I woke up after one or two hours of that and turned it off.

Once I had slept for what I hope was a long enough time that I'll still be somewhat awake in the morning, I got up to pee and then turned the thing back on to lie on it some more. I was half-heartedly hoping that it might make me tired again, but that didn't happen. Then I exercised a little, being extra careful both not to overdo it in any way and to move as many of my upper body muscles as possible into as many different directions as possible, and every few minutes I placed the heating pad on my shoulders for a moment to make absolutely certain that nothing could get cold.

After that I got dressed really quickly, wrapped a scarf around my neck and turned up my collar for good measure. o.O