This is going to sound really melodramatic, but most days I can't figure out why I survived that pulmonary embolism.  I just feel like there hasn't been a point to my life since then and nothing particularly good has come out of it.  Nothing has really made sense since before that time.  I feel like my life would have been such a good story if it ( Read more... )

Well, after Scamgate 2013 I became borderline furious with craigslist and remembered my mom saying nice things about monster.com.  I opened a free account there this morning, sent out my résumé five times with a few easy clicks (and short cover letters typed into the appropriate boxes) and next thing I know I have an interview scheduled for Monday ( Read more... )

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Thanks for fretting with me, guys. I kind of figured it wasn't anything urgent because the doctors in the French hospital told me when I went for my one-week checkup that having made it up eight flights of stairs earlier that day meant I was almost definitely clot-free, and yesterday I did a fifteen minute starter jogging thing again... basically ( Read more... )

dear god please don't let this weird tightness in my chest be another blood clot ( Read more... )

This is gonna have to be my new tradition. I also did 2009 and 2011.

( Seems to me now that the dreams we had before are all dead, nothing more than confetti on the floor )

Welllllllllp ( Read more... )