* I am officially in love with the arrangement of Talis Kimberley's 'Still Catch the Tide' that we did for the 2007 Pegasus Concert. Like, officially and totally in love. How in love? In love enough that if I had the money, I would totally go back into the studio and record a whole new version of the song, just to have an 'official' version of ( Read more... )

I am seriously too sick to die. Seriously. I've hit the stage of viral incubation where anything more strenuous than lying very still, occasionally breathing, and hitting 'play' to start the next episode of NCIS is just too damn much trouble to deal with. The cats are totally capitalizing on my condition, because the cats are bastards. I wound ( Read more... )

I got sent home from work yesterday with explosive, insanely painful stomach flu. I think it was the part where the CEO walked into the bathroom to find me on my knees, sobbing and throwing up. I mean, how do they keep you after that ( Read more... )

I have a cold.

It has hit that awesome point where it's making SO MANY NEW baby viruses every second that I'm literally skidding through 'levels of illness' like a greased cookie tray shoots down the side of a slick summertime hill. I did not have a fever fifteen minutes ago.

I am not amused.

Bed soon.

For those wondering what I was planning for my birthday this year (since said birthday falls, remarkably, on an actual Saturday for once), the answer is ( Read more... )

Having spent the last two days too sick to die -- I picked up a lovely rhinovirus in Seattle, baked it on the plane, and then let it have its way with me -- I have only just plugged my computer back in. Yeah. My pants are bankrupt, I have no living clue what's going on, I'm probably not having a birthday party on my actual birthday, and I'm going ( Read more... )

You've probably seen this already, but I hadn't until just a few minutes ago, so...

Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's.This is possibly the least fair disease in the world. It eats parents, and grandparents, and fabulous people who had a lot more healthy years in them (thanks to modern medical ( Read more... )

Awake at four o'clock in the morning due to muscle spasms in my lower right back so severe that they woke me screaming at left me entirely unable to move for the better part of half an hour. Normally, sleep makes the pain less, not more severe. Apparently not this time. It feels like my right leg is asleep. All pins and needles and pain. I can ( Read more... )

Meteor falls from sky, everybody gets sick.I am a sad, sad, pandemic-happy girl, because my first thought upon hearing about this event was 'coooooooool'. I mean, I'm not happy that people are sick. Sick sucks. But if a space-borne virus falls to Earth and causes everyone in the world to first die, then reanimate as flesh-hungry viral zombies? ( Read more... )

It's very difficult to get across the realities of chronic pain to people who don't have to deal with it, or who deal with it in a less severe form than whatever form you happen to be living with. B. has a headache all the time. That's just what she does. And she can't understand why I'm currently so broken, since, after all, she hurts all the ( Read more... )