jabs and stats

[melannen]

Had my second pfizer Covid jab yesterday! And then spent about twelve hours with a 100+ deg temperature and a migraine, starting the middle of last night, including a short stretch of chills so bad I couldn't maneuver the blankets for the shaking. So that was fun. Luckily my work is encouraging everyone to preemptively schedule a recovery day after their second shot, and I am very glad I took it. I am thinking about how much it must suck to have that happen if you can't just take a sick day after - and how that must be really screwing up vaccine takeup in some demographics. But also how nice it was to be able to schedule my annual bout of flu symptoms a month in advance. Anyway, temp is now several degrees lower, headache is mostly gone, and brain and appetite are back, so hopefully I'll be all done by 36 hours after the shot, like most people I've heard from. I think I am still taking another dose of Tylenol before bed just in case though.

Anyway, other news: anybody remember how back at the beginning of the year, I was trying to write a tool that would let you run stats on your AO3 history, and failed because I don't actually understand how login cookies work? Someone else has built one! AO3 Year In Review

It has mostly told me that I have read a LOT of MDZS fic in the last eighteen months, which I probably didn't need a spreadsheet to figure out, but it's still fun to play with. Also it did tell me I read 32,581,788 words of fanfic in 2020, so that's, uh, about 400 more books that would go on my reading tracking for the year, if they were all actual novels, so that's, uh, a thing. 1977 individual fics, average length 16500 words, median 5780. 53 of them were over 100,000 words, and the longest was "Embers" at 704200 (I save that one for emergencies.)

It's not totally accurate because your history only records works you visit while logged in, and only counts the most recent re-read, and it also records all works you open whether you actually read them or not (I think at least one of the 100000+ works I did not read, or if I did I preserved no memory of it whatsoever.) Those probably cancel out more or less in the overall numbers because I read logged out a lot, but 2021 stats so far are probably particularly inflated by this, because I've been going back looking at fic I've read in the past to decide what I want to download for forever, so there's a lot I've opened but not read.

Also it doesn't understand tag wrangling, so if you want true numbers for things like fandoms and ships, you have to do your own wrangling in the spreadsheet, and I have not had the energy to do that right, but I am probably going to keep poking at it!

Other than that, for the past few weeks I have mostly been staring at video of the new volcano in Iceland! What a nice little volcano it is.

Comments

[tei]

Oh man. I am too lazy to figure out which pages of my history to feed into it, and also probably can guess the information it would give me, but— that DOES look like a fun thing to have, especially for actual “end of year review” type things!

[melannen]

Hopefully it'll still be there for a 2021 roundup!

[thawrecka]

It told me I read 18,937,470 words of fic in 2020, which just makes me wonder what I'm doing with my life.

[melannen]

Reading fanfic, clearly!

[pauraque]

I'm glad you got your second dose and are doing better!

[melannen]

Only 97.7 this morning so I guess I have to go to work!

[sophia_sol]

Congrats on being fully vaccinated!!

That stats tool is so cool, thanks for linking. And uh. In 2020 I managed 56 million words. That's uh. Sure a lot. I knew that I spend a lot of time reading fanfic but I didn't realize HOW MUCH, dear lord. So far this year I appear to be at 16 million, so I'm on track to do the same again.

[melannen]

Oh, wow, you did better worse better than me! (Of course I do a lot of logged-out reading, so I might be close to that with an accurate count...)

I also am on track to do the same for this year, which is interesting given that this time last year I'd already spent a month locked in at home off work...

[sophia_sol]

Better. Yes. That is....definitely the word. I do all my reading logged in, because I have an ao3 skin that makes various changes to how ao3 appears to make it more readable to me, so I think my counts aren't missing anything!

[sara]

That sounds very much like my mother's reaction to #2.

(I've preemptively scheduled a day off, yes).

[melannen]

A lot of people I know are having something like that, which is what convinced me to take the day two weeks in advance. My mother had something very similar, although she didn't ever actually take her temp, just languished for a day, and my sister had something like it on her first Moderna shot. It seems pretty common. Someone else did mention that a few Tylenol were very effective on it even for people Tylenol doesn't usually do a lot for, and that seemed to be true for me, although I am not very smart about that and waited until noon to take any. (The Tylenol only dropped my temp to about two degrees above my normal, but that was better than four and enough to eat and sleep and fake being a functional human.)

The same person pointed out that it's a lot more tolerable when you know exactly what's causing it and that it's good for you, and that was at least partly true!

[unavee]

That tool is fun, thanks for sharing the link. I mostly use AO3 logged out and just log in to bookmark or sometimes to mark for later. I still managed over 12 million words in 2020, so I'm kind of glad I don't know what the real count is! But it was neat to see my top fandoms, tags, etc. in 2021, 2020, 2019 (that's as far back as I went).

Glad you're feeling better!