New post up at Somewhere in the Middle - Medical Mayhem about medical professionals being cool about trans stuff and my visit to the ER on Sunday night.

I figured out that my new allergy medicine might be the cause of my problems. Not all my problems, most assuredly, but the cause of the most painful problems of last three weeks. It all started about a week after I started taking Singulair again (and this is the weird part, I took Singulair several years ago with no side effects, although as messypeaches ( Read more... )

I'm home! It was arduous, and next time I fly internationally I'd like to be wealthy enough to fly first class. Now on to the post, in which there will be ( Welcome Rests, Forgotten Sandwiches, Gay Scotland Yard Detectives, Unattended Luggage, Angry Seatmates, Dubious Immigration Inspectors, Imaginary Friends, Smuggled Biological Imports, and other Sundries of International Travel )

I might be the world's most sad tourist. When I went to Japan a few years ago, I was sick for most of the trip and did a lot of just hanging around in bed with media and friends. Here I am in the UK, and I had all these plans to do walking tours of Huddersfield while darksideofstorm was at work, and instead I've been sick, hanging around in bed reading and ( Read more... )

Bronchitis while on vacation is lame. Fortunately darksideofstorm has been completely understanding and kind about it, and given me some cough syrup called "Chesty Cough" which makes my inner ten-year-old boy snigger. I think it should be a drag name. I've actually been sick pretty much since I got here, and yes, I'm on antibiotics already. Good thing I brought ( Read more... )

In the last three days I have spent close to $2200 on ( Read more... )

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New post up at Somewhere in the Middle, on reasons to love Pacifica. There are some pictures, too ( Read more... )

New post up at Somewhere in the Middle, on dress up shoes and the awesome ones I bought at a second-hand shop in San Diego's Hillcrest neighborhood this weekend ( Read more... )

I came down with the cold at 36,000 feet over Oklahoma. Or possibly New Mexico. Anyway, it was on the plane on the way home from Nashville on Tuesday when I felt that heat in my sinuses and rawness in my throat that heralded the onset of something worse than allergies. It's played hell with my plans for moving, since I spent Wednesday, Thursday, ( Read more... )