Doctor's office called. My isurance is being a pain about covering the hysterectomy part of the surgery and wants me to try progesterone for two months first. OMGWTF INSURANCE.

Hard to convey how freaked out and unhappy I am right now. Have literally gone to Youtube to play myself some Enya.

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Posting this almost unedited from my barely-awake typing, because I find my sleepy self hilarious.

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Minimally coherent reading meme time!

Currently I am reading Deerskin, because I read Chalice yesterday and it was Just The Thing, and I emailed
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16-hour day. Main experiment failed twice. Something that really, really shouldn't have gone wrong seems to be doing so.

AND I FEEL FINE

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My PI is Japanese, so gets a ton of invitations to talk over there. She is perhaps a little exhausted by it. When people wanted her to speak at a special symposium on imaging, she suggested that maybe instead her main imaging person (that would be me) could speak... if they didn't mind the symposium being in English. (?!) The organizer said ( Read more... )

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It turns out that, with predictive text, "enzyme" is a palindrome.

Evidence suggests that dancing behavior is induced primarily by 80s music. "Billie Jean" was the first big draw, followed immediately by "Dancing Queen" (yes I know 1976). The Eurhythmics were popular, and of course there was the one that caused me to leap up, rip off my sweater, and run to the floor: "99 Luftballons"! The Germans and I sang ( Read more... )

Cleaning the living room, which was in dire need. Really the whole house is in dire need; I don't know how we thought it was feasible to move to a place with 1/4 the space, even with a quasi-livable outbuilding. I am coming up with some creative storage ideas, but we still have to ditch a LOT more stuff. Or move, which might be easier.

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