For those who don't know, Ali has been down with the current influenza bloom for around the past week and a half. The worst of it has gone, and while her attempt to return to work on Friday was abortive (her bosses sent her home; most of the department was out last week with the same thing), she has returned today feeling merely worn out as opposed ( Read more... )

Run! Run, skinny people! Before we infect you like the ravaging, shambling, hungry horde that we are! Save yourselves before you catch the FAT! (insert B-movie shrieking here ( Read more... )

I mentioned yesterday that I might have been depressed. Just for the record, I do not mean to imply that I am neuroatypical in the form of a chemical imbalance-induced mental disorder. I meant that I was feeling low, blue, down, unhappy, whatever you want to call it. It is possible that it was related to low blood sugar or it might have been simply ( Read more... )

We're getting there.

And if she goes a whole year without engaging in a mad killing spree, we'll feel confident in saying that adding machinery to the human body is NOT going to make us into inhuman monsters. ;p