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Weird
The biggest challenge with pleuritis and pericarditis? It's exhausting.... but that's it ( Read more... ) -
Diagnostic Obscurity
Last Friday I woke up feeling like I was having a panic attack. Stabbing chest pain, pounding heart rate, trouble breathing, all that fun stuff. I pushed through work, where the techs took decent care of me between visits and the other doc made sure I was monitoring my heart rate and pulses, and after a few hours when the breathing wasn't getting ( Read more... ) -
Failing At Journaling
Once again, I fail at keeping up here. Partly it's time; partly it's habit - I'm just not in the pattern of writing here daily, and the more I miss the harder it is to re-start. I miss having a place to just keep track of daily life, and I'll try again, and I'll probably slip again, but this is better than nothing ( Read more... ) -
Emotional Support Animal
Ever since we brought our current pair of cats home as kittens three years ago, they made it clear that they had strong preferences in their people. Harlequin - the long-haired black fluffball - is daddy's little girl, running around the house peeping at umbran to be picked up or to have a toy thrown, and climbing on his chest whenever he holds still; ( Read more... ) -
NYC
umbran and I just came back from a weekend trip to NYC - we usually go away for a weekend at some point in the summer; this year I was too overwhelmed to put together our travel plan so I asked him to make it happen, and he stepped in to assemble a fairly impressive adventure ( Read more... ) -
Miss Jean Louis: A Biography
So much can be said about Miss Jean Louis - epic poems have been written in praise of her tireless efforts on behalf of the endangered elopus, murals have been painted in tribute to her pulchritude, and I know of at least once city that has been renamed in her honor after her endeavors to save all of its children from a tragic epidemic of mundanity ( Read more... ) -
Crazy Week
So I've been quiet here this week, mostly because it's GISHWHES, the crazy week-long international scavenger hunt that I vanish into once a year, only to emerge with ridiculous stories and a lot less shame ( Read more... ) -
I Ain't Afraid Of No Gender-Specific Social Tropes
So. Ghostbusters 2016. It's a thing. A kerfluffle, maybe even. It's also, in every possible way, pretty darn amazing ( Read more... ) -
Making Art
Earlier this week I had the first inking session for my newest tattoo (and as an aside, when the heck did I become an ink addict? I never meant to get any beyond the first one....). It's going to be absolutely gorgeous, and my artist is amazing, but this was especially interesting to me because it was the first time I got to watch and be part of ( Read more... ) -
Growing
It's been almost a year since I cut my hair, and I still love having it short. But part of the fun of short hair is experimenting and playing around with it. And I've played around with rag curls (epic disaster) and color (amazing) and curling irons (still don't really know what to do with them), and so it's about time to start playing around ( Read more... )