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[dear_tiger]

Happy Halloween, ladies! I hope you get candy, and pumpkins, and beautiful fall weather, and various ghouls around your downtown area, and scary movies, and candles, and everything wonderful that is Halloween. It's one of my top three holidays of the year, and I'm missing it in the jungle where no one even wants to come play zombies with me. But

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[dear_tiger]

Boo mandatory overtime. But hey, cute kiddies, Halloween costumes, trick-or-treating at co-workers' desks all sound awesome. The chocolate especially. I'm soooo happy that you can have some for the holiday! It would indeed suck to pass it on Halloween.

(Yay for improving guts! I was studying GI a few weeks back and thinking of your guts problems - presentation of an ulcer versus gastritis. Ugh, no fun.)

And thank you for being a great friend, seriously! :D Local sweets are the typical Halloween candy things we get in the States. I had some peanut butter cups today, for instance. The problem is that I'm ridiculously picky with food, and it's getting worse with age :D I don't like the typical Halloween candy - I want those Belgian seashell chocolates shaped like starfish and seahorses and shells and other cool things. I want all the fresh produce, all the fruits and veggies and berries, and I don't mean the locally grown root vegetables nor the lettuce with its rot spots. And not just any lettuce but Romanie lettuce, and not the small sour peaches but the large sweet ones, preferably white, and not the local thin fishy-tasting fish but halibut and wild-caught king salmon, and not the tiny funny-tasting local shrimp but the prawns. No store-bought cakes unless they are very high quality, no preserve without pieces of berries in it, no ice cream with peanut butter or cookie dough or shit like that. It goes on and on. Say, on the infrequent occasion they have grapes, I won't eat them unless they are the kind I like. All those things I miss the most won't travel well :/ (Can you tell I'm thinking about food a lot, hehe?) But seriously, thank you, I appreciate the offer! If the things I miss could survive three weeks in transit, I'd jump all over that. And then there are customs regulations on a lot of edible things.

[deceptivemirror]

It made me happy to try some of it and not want to curl up in a ball and suffer cramps :D

(do tell me what you garnered from that class; I'd love to know how far along I am in the healing process! Kind of flattered that your mind jumped to me during that lecture as well :P )

I can't say I quite understand your obsession with fresh foods and specialty chocolate, since I'm kind of easy to please in that department (admittedly), but after living several years here in the PNW, I have to admit that the definition of "fresh" up here doesn't quite match what everyone else's is. God knows that if I ever go back to AZ, I won't order fish. It's just asking for belly troubles.

[dear_tiger]

I hope your stomach keeps healing fast. It's no fun at all to be deprived of chocolate. And I'm afraid I can't contribute much from the lecture yet. First year is normal physiology with only little glimpses of pathology cases, so we just studied a lot of transporter molecules and hormones/neurotransmitters in the GI. I just learned that ulcers stop hurting when there is food, and that gastritis gets worse with food, and that irritation of the stomach mucosa triggers nausea and vomiting.

Oh PNW fresh food, there is nothing like it! Heh, good to know about Arizona :D I remember ordering shrimp salad once in Minnesota, then wondering why I paid to eat something that tasted like it came out of my freezer.