Had a very rough day. Last night around 11:30pm a woman rang all the doorbells in the building. I didn't go down but another tenant did. I couldn't hear exactly but she wanted in the building and my neighbor wouldn't let her in. For the next half hour, she alternated between sitting on the steps outside and coming over and banging on the building. ( Read more... )

I've got the cough from hell, and whenever the Husband or I laugh we start coughing, so it's like the soundtrack of the Tuberculosis Comedy Hour here. Couldn't even breathe through my nose last night. Yuck ( Read more... )

Dear Sickness ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling like I had been flattened by a car. A car that I knew was coming yet could not sum up the energy to get out of the way of. Like so:

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It's funny how you can find things when you're totally not looking for them.

I was helping someone find a Catholic retreat center in Taiwan (cause that's just how I roll) when I stumbled across this specialized English->Chinese dictionary of Catholic terms.For example, if I want to know how to say "Advent" in Chinese, the term for the season is " ( Read more... )