Had a shitty day dealing with the splitting headaches and the assholes in the clinic. It seems that if I'm in actual pain (as evidenced by a BP of 147/92) and I start to cry when being told that a doctor can't see me to write me an rx for three vicodin to kill the pain, the next questions are about why I missed my last appointment with my ( Read more... )

So. Um. Hi. It's been a few days. Basically, after we finally got Mom back home on Saturday evening, I became dead to the world. I was so tired I slept all of Sunday. Literally. I'm going to try to keep myself on a decent sleep/wake schedule today so I can go see the doctor tomorrow. (I had an appointment with Dr Hall that I didn't know about ( Read more... )

Click here for "Lonely Planet Seeks Inhabitants" from the Science Channel. Four planets (I don't care what Neil DeGrasse-Tyson says, Pluto's still a planet to me!) put up personal ads. I love their e-mail addresses, personally. And the funniest, IMO, is Jupiter's ( Read more... )

The more mundane things are still being affected by Ike. I was supposed to see my new psychiatrist today, but had to reschedule because he was still stuck in another city. I'm supposed to see him tomorrow, but I'm doubtful that I'll be able to see him tomorrow either. According to the receptionist, he doesn't have any electricity, water, or ( Read more... )

1. IT'S EFFING HOT. Like, break a sweat just by looking outside, hot. Why did I move to a place where the humidity is almost always 100%? The forecast for today is 101 with a heat index somewhere between 110 and 115. And, naturally, today I have errands to do, so I can't just relax in the A/C. Grr ( Read more... )

So Friday was "See where Heather (georion23) works and meet all her school peeps" day. We drove up to her school - Arizona State, School of Earth and Space Exploration. I got to see her lab. It was neat to finally get to see how she will be conducting her experiments for her thesis. Don't ask me how it all works... I understand it on a superficial level, ( Read more... )

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