Baby's Latest Adventure in Pharmacology - clomipramine hydrochloride, a tricyclic antidepressant that I've been prescribed for sleep issues, on the grounds that I might have been having an idiosyncratic response to the amitriptyline. Fair enough, I said, and filled the prescription.

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It's 3.09am. I cannot sleep. Naturally, tomorrow is a day upon which I have something scheduled to do every minute from 7.55am to 11pm. I remember being told once that people who can't sleep at night aren't really insomniacs; they just say they are because it sounds glamorous ( Read more... )

Dear self,

You are not profoundly unemployable. Even if you don't get the job you interviewed for yesterday, and there's a hefty statistical chance you won't (850 applicants, 8 places, etc.), that does not mean that the very first thing your interviewer said to you, after pouring out the coffee and asking about your journey, was, "Well, you have a ( Read more... )

Sunday: new drug; new drug's interaction with alcohol; new glasses; new orientation of sky in relation to ground; going canoeing on Hinksey Lake. Really, this is the sort of story that ought to end, "And then I woke up in a dumpster in Nantucket ( Read more... )

In times of stress, I tend to... make a mess.

Today is my fourth day of school, and ( this is what my floor looks like )

That Cat, having just run riot around the living room, settled herself down to take a big bite out of my golden-syrupped waffles. I picked her up by the middle - the kitten I could once scoop up in one hand now works quite well as a draught excluder - and put her in the kitchen, and closed the door ( Read more... )