I was on my way back from getting some lunch just a bit ago when I, apropos of nothing, started thinking about how I'm gaining on 30 much faster than I'd like to and that the youth I was supposed to have wasted on having fun got wasted instead on being ill. That got me into a funk that lasted all of about fifteen seconds because America's "Lonely ( Read more... )

That's right. I'm one of those people now ( Read more... )

If you're reading this on or after September 10, 2008, then congratulations! The Large Hadron Collider did not destroy the universe and we have survived.

I've been kicking around the idea of getting business cards lately for some odd reason, and I want some kind of funny little phrase to put under my name. I've got several I've thought of so far, but I'd like to see what everybody else thinks.

• Internet Celebrity
  
• Medical Mystery
  
• Gentleman Adventurer
  
• Sasquatch Detective
  
• At Liberty
  
• Or, you can suggest ( Read more... )

Most of you guys were on my migraine updates list and got the shot-by-shot analysis of my time in the MHNI inpatient program, but the gist of it is as follows:

• None of the medicines or procedures they tried got rid of the pain.
  
• We got a lot of useful data that my regular neurologist (Dr. Finkel) is going to parse and use to better manage my care.
  
• ( Read more... )

I've been sitting here in this hotel room for getting on towards a week. I am slowly losing my mind, but I've had a brief flash of inspiration and genius: I need to get a DV-cam ( Read more... )

All my bags are packed and I'm ready to go
I'm sitting here on my bedroom floor
I wish there was some other way to fly,
But I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again.
Oy vey, security is slo-o-o-ow.

Tonight, almost everybody got together for Ashley's birthday and at the end of the night, it felt like we were all going our separate ways in some kind of diaspora. I had a great time with everybody, as usual, but it still felt oddly poignant for some reason ( Read more... )

From now on, I'm buying all my vintage eyeglasses from Shuron. They're such helpful people.

It's just barely May 5, 2008. May 5 is the adopted anniversary of my constant pain ( Read more... )