Get comfy; this will be a long one.  For weeks, I have been reading with increasing anger and sadness about the vitriolic debate over health care reform.  I'm ready to stop reading about it altogether.  The misinformation, the defensiveness, the apoplexy.  It's wearing me out.

This is one of those issues that could be (and should be) calmly ( Read more... )

What an action-packed week. 
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As I sat at my desk doing school-type work and waiting for the snow disaster yesterday, something fell into my right eye and ruined all the enjoyment I would have otherwise gained from a snow day.  That something scratched up my cornea pretty bad and stinky_monky  had to drive me through the blizzard to an urgent care place, where I got some eyedrops that ( Read more... )

And then during dinner I dropped a plate on my big toe and broke it.  The plate, not the toe.  Though the toe really really hurts.

It's been a weird day.

Our cat, Monkey, was sick this weekend.  And then yesterday I caught a cold.  Coincidence...?  Yeah, probably not.  Our symptoms were different.  And it's pretty rare for an illness to jump from a cat to a human.  But I'll still say I survived a rare case of Feline Flu.

An update on the back-order child, for those of you who don't read stinky_monky's LJ:  ( IVF stuff )

Now I know that it's really easy to ridicule the student health center on campus, but I'm not one to shy away from a task just because it's easy ( Read more... )

Back in mid-July, while helping some friends move, my left thumb was crushed between a dresser and the business end of a screen door.  The thumb survived, though it was a bloody mess, but the nail was mortally wounded.  For six weeks we waited, hoping for some sign of life.  It did not exactly go gentle into that good night, however.  I think it ( Read more... )

Illness and injury update: I still have an occasional cough but am otherwise well.
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I guess I have to resign myself to the fact that spring breaks will always suck at Ohio State.  Last year at this time I was recovering from my kidney stone.  This year 
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While I was sitting in my writing seminar today, ostensibly listening to my fellow students critique my paper (can you believe that they want a THESIS?!  and EVIDENCE to support it?!?), I decided that I've actually contracted malaria rather than a cold.  My office was a tropical 80 degrees today with the heater blowing full strength, and it rained ( Read more... )