All of these pictures are pretty cool (except the fish -- I've seen that same dumb fish & shrimp a hundred times now), but this particular one...

Migraine sufferer's vision of a barn.If you don't suffer migraines with auras, you really just don't know what it's like. It's like being blind, in a way -- you can see, but that doesn't mean anything ( Read more... )

Rita is now officially a hurricane, and is expected to make landfall near Corpus Christi sometime Saturday morning.It looks like very little damage has so far been sustained in Florida. The two places I've worked conferences with AANP have now been hit within a month of eachother by hurricanes; I'm beginning to think that AANP brings wanton ( Read more... )

Saw my doctor today -- as I figured, I have had a pretty bad sinus infection for a few weeks now. It was worse than I thought despite the lack of a major symptom: it had already moved into my left ear, and I'm glad I got in to see him today since I'm on day six of a triptan non-responsive migraine caused by the congestion pressure and I ran out of ( Read more... )

Sinus troubles have led to full blown migraine. My maincure is shot: only two tips are still actually on my fingers, and I'm not optimistic that those will still be there by tomorrow morning. But I guess peeling acrylic layers off my fingernails is better than biting them? I need to refill a prescription tonight anyway, I might pick up a nail ( Read more... )

I'm a headachy ball of stress. Am now going home to sleep. Thanks for well-wishes earlier -- you all rock :)

It's oppressively hot and muggy. And I'm hella lame and have some sorta summer cold, wretched allergy or wacky space invaders that make me sneezy and puffy and watery-eyed and miserable. My money's on option three ( Read more... )

Knitty.com just updated -- their summer issue is out. I still haven't had a chance to even start any of the stuff I wanted to make from the spring edition, and Interweve knits somehow warped time to send me two issues almost within a month, so I'm feeling super slackery about my knitting. But this season's Knitty theme is stuff for men, and since ( Read more... )