Sunscreen experiment #1 is a success, in that I got a result. I used the sunscreen three days in a row on my left arm and two days on the back of my neck, and by Day 5 I had developed the beginning of the rash. It's not red and itchy yet, and I wonder if that might be because I didn't manage to get a lot of strong sun exposure; the weather was ( Read more... )

I don't like video games much. I'm not opposed to them, I think they're like any other kind of media: there's a spectrum of quality and a range of uses from entertainment to unhealthy obsession to changing the world. I personally have never been drawn to them whether they were on Atari, Nintendo, the computer, or the iPhone, but my brother was a ( Read more... )

A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi. I haven't read this book, but it's been getting a some press and I've heard the author in a couple of interviews. I like the idea he started with, that mental illness (he focuses mainly on mainia and depression) is not exclusively negative and "normalcy" is not exclusively positive, and more specifically that ( Read more... )

* Got my seasonal flu shot! \o/ They gave me a sticker with a lovely peer pressure message on it. (I have no problem displaying propaganda for public health.)

* ( xkcd: There's nowhere I'd rather be... )

When I went to set my alarms tonight, they were still on. This means I didn't forget to set them last night, I just completely slept through them -- both of them -- this morning. I don't remember a thing. So the Fuzz could have been meowing like crazy and I doubt I would have heard him. Kitty exonerated. However, I think this means I need to fix my ( Read more... )

It's been an utterly lovely day. I am deeply empty and lonely but it's not the kind of lonely that wants company, or the kind of empty that wants filling, if you know what I mean. It's the kind of day when I can look at something mundane as the cold wax at the bottom of my lava lamp and feel very emotional about the shape of the wax. It's the kind ( Read more... )

Earlier this evening, I was feeling strangely fatigued and sick-ish. I attributed it to the warm, humid weather, and was starting to sigh darkly to myself, "Well, this is it, spring has taken hold and I'm going to feel like this for the rest of the summer now," when I was interrupted by severe thunderstorms. Then it occurred to me that the last ( Read more... )

I need to watch TV and knit and force myself to calm down, because my current theory is it will help The Sick. (Nothing to worry about, just still annoying and curious.) But I cannot break away from the internets! Here's the random latest. ghoulchick, if you see a mention of it, this is what I'm talking about:

David Tennant and Freema Agyman at some awards ( Read more... )

( Don't mind me, I'm just grumpy. )

I essentially just slept for fourteen hours. Not quite, I guess: I woke around seven and fed the Fuzz, shuffled around a bit in a daze, and then lay back down. I'm still on the air mattress because my dad spent the night last week and, while I have washed the sheets, they haven't made it all the way back onto the bed yet. (They're supposed to do ( Read more... )