so, my life since march 25, eh?

march 27: jmallick's fantastic surprise birthday party, complete with scrabble, prizes and cake ( Read more... )

So, on Friday, I woke up with what I thought was a bug bite on my tailbone. This would not be out of the ordinary for me - I've been getting tons of bug bites this summer, especially while sleeping, in annoying places like on the soles of my feet. So I mostly ignored it, even though it hurt, and went about my day waiting for Scrabble tournament ( Read more... )

Why go to the doctor when they just tell me what I already know? They do have a cool insta-strep test these days, so I know I don't have strep (but I think I knew that already). Whatever. Five days of sore throat is about enough for me. Mucinex + allegra + dayquil + Halls Defense will be the continued regimen, and if I'm not better by Friday, I' ( Read more... )

We have traced many of my nausea/dizziness/fainting spells to times after which I ate scallops. Thus, no more scallops for me. A couple of outlier times when I ate asian food, which may very well have included dishes that had oyster sauce in them. Will eventually get tested to confirm, but how ironic that I never had a shellfish problem until I ( Read more... )

we got our grill on Saturday, and after the some assembly required part, we fired it up. we've had hot dogs twice, and i had marinated flank steak once. three out of our last four meals were grill creations. it's amazing how much more power and precision a grill has when you actually spend money on it ( Read more... )

argh. for now, a list. maybe more detail later ( Read more... )

still sick. phlegmy and gross. i have sneezed about 20 times. also ravenous. feed a cold, i guess ( Read more... )

I would organize my pictures folder on my hard drive. it's out of control. same goes for my iTunes. you don't notice clutter and disorganization as much on a computer, but it's still there ( Read more... )

There was some odd karmic exchange on the flight to Chicago. I ate normal foods and had my usual mocha prior to flying to Chicago. I bought my magazine, took my dramamine. I'm pretty sure I wasn't virusy at the time, but I managed to make myself fairly nauseous prior to flying, and had to wander up and down the airport to try to calm my belly. ( Read more... )

Okay, I feel largely better - I'm glad that this headcold hasn't pestered me as long as it did Tim, but here's a few weird things that haven't righted themselves yet ( Read more... )