Well, it's been a while. There's been a lot happening. I think today though I'm going to talk about what's been happening since this incident. Fair warning, once again, we're going to be talking about my anatomy below the waist and the things done to it in the name of science ( Read more... )

( No, seriously. My ladyparts and their workings are about to be discussed in depth. )

Some history first. As a child, I had perfect, A-1 teeth. Never needed any work done at all aside from the bi-annual scaling and yukky tasting toothpaste treatment at the dentist. This pattern held all through my school career and I graduated senior at 16 without having a single piece of metal in my mouth ( Read more... )

Nutritionism is good for the food business. But is it good for us? You might think that a national fixation on nutrients would lead to measuable improvements in public health. For that to happen, however, the underlying nutritional science and the policy recommendations (not to mention the journalism) based on that science would both have to be ( Read more... )

Two inches.

Two.
Inches.

Two inches, and it's keeping me awake.
(Insert ex-husband joke here.)

What's the old riddle about a Shakespeare play?
Two inches?
Much Ado About NothingBut it isn't nothing ( Read more... )

But before the details on that, I need to share with the world that I have found the perfect formula for beating close-to-freezing temperatures. It goes thus: an electric blanket, flannel sheets, a stock-standard polyester-fill quilt and three strategically placed cats. (Mushroom usually positions himself somewhere on my chest to tummy region, ( Read more... )

I've now been awake for 25 hours straight. If I get up and do something my body is so exhausted it walks me into walls and almost falls over, but when I lie down and close my eyes, that's all that happens - I lie down and close my eyes. Not even brief hypnogogia ( Read more... )

So the other night, in exchange for a ride to the supermarket so I don't have to take a cab less than one kilometre coz I've bought more than two bags worth of groceries, I cooked dinner for myself, mammatash, and The Young Master. I cooked some beautiful lamb chops with mashed tatties and steamed beans, squash and onions. Healthy, whole foods, lots of ( Read more... )

Hiya. Sorry to have left this for so long, but there was a significant period of self-indulgent navel-gazing black-dog-ignoring after the aforementioned nutritionist's extreme lack of tact. I've lodged a formal complaint with the hospital. Haven't heard back about it, but shall wait and see. My next appointment with her isn't supposed to be ( Read more... )

So I just got back from seeing the dietician or nutritionist or whatever the hell she is. I haven't felt this close to self harm in a long time ( Read more... )