I've been watching the mini-series about Mt. Everest on the Discovery Channel. Basically they are tracking a bunch of guys who are attempting to make it to the summit. For some reason I am absolutely fascinated with the whole process of climbing extreme mountains, especially Everest and K2, even though it's something I will never ever even remotely ( Read more... )

Home sick again today, even though I'm missing a couple of meetings. Ugh. I got let off the hook for my 4-6 pm desk shift though, which made me rethink my "I'll come in for a few hours in the afternoon" idea ... I really do feel (and probably sound) pretty toxic. Stupid-ass cold. BAD TIMING. I can't imagine how I am going to be able to make the ( Read more... )

So I got to work and found out I'd just missed the "stay home, sick person!" phone call from the folks in charge of the reference desk (because I left early to stop at CVS for kleenex). So I went downstairs and bought an Odwalla "Citrus C Monster" fruit smoothie, which I have been craving all day (1000% of the RDA of vitamin C in every serving, and ( Read more... )

I woke up with a cold yesterday morning, and didn't go to the toddlers' birthday party that I was supposed to go to because there were gonna be little babies there and I didn't want to give them my germs. I did go out to meet my friend Shana to give her some quotes for the article she's writing on the Bloomington poetry scene. Then I came home and ( Read more... )

So I managed to get a dentist appt. to deal with my busted tooth -- tried a new dentist, since I felt like the last one was put-out by my nervousness. This one was super super nice and has very small hands which, lo and behold, is a key factor in my comfort -- who woulda thunk it? I just need to see petite women dentists from now on. Anyway, the ( Read more... )

I just managed to chip off a big chunk of tooth somehow. I don't know how -- I was eating a piece of cold pizza, for crying out loud! -- I bet there was a cavity in there already, sigh. It doesn't hurt (yet) but obviously I'm going to be calling the dentist first thing in the morning and trying to get in there a.s.a.freakin'p. It's probably going ( Read more... )

I've gotten almost nothing done today. I think I'm still battling fatigue from being sick. I had good intentions of settling in to do some reading, but ended up parked in front of the tv watching basketball games I didn't even care that much about. I did read about half a literary journal. Woo? And, um, I took out some garbage, and checked my PO ( Read more... )

Mudpup yarfed all over his bed last night and again while I was at work today (last night I'm 99% certain it was because he was constipated; I'm not sure what was up today, but he seems fine now) so I washed his bed for the first time. It came out a little bit misshapen, but all clean. He just sniffed it a bit cautiously and climbed in and now he ( Read more... )

...to the Middle Age Club. It's official -- I get bifocals. :) My distance vision has barely changed in the last 3.5 years though, which is nice; my astigmatism is a little worse, but nothing too remarkable. And I don't even need bifocals *that* badly, as it turns out, but I do get 'em ( Read more... )

So, I'm pretty sure I need bifocals. It suddenly occurred to me a few days ago that there's a reason I can't see the little bitty lines on Mudpup's insulin syringe when I'm holding it close to my face, and can't read the teeny tiny print on CD booklets anymore, and it might just have something to do with what my eye doctor told me three years ago ( Read more... )