Every time I look at my journal I realize that it's been the better part of a month since I updated it and am immediately filled with a sort of deep shame.  I am a poor writer if I can't even take a few scant minutes out of my day (or even my week) to chronicle the noteworthy happenings of the time.  I look at the date at the top of the last entry ( Read more... )

 I've been living in a hippie town too long.  I say this because I realized today that one of my chief annoyances about Lubbock is the fact that is is not easy to recycle here and it makes me cringe a little bit every time I throw out a plastic carton or a glass bottle.  *shakes fist*  The hippies have gotten me!

I just got back from a follow-up ( Read more... )

So apparently I have an ulcer in my eyeball ( Read more... )

It's been a good weekend.  I am home, I have seen Zandra and Boo and family and gotten a few early birthday presents and all of that has been lovely ( Read more... )

I am incredibly pleased to say that the antibiotics seem to be doing their job!  I have reclaimed occasional use of both nostrils from the snot forces.  It is a hard-won, but incredibly gratifying victory ( Read more... )

 Yesterday was a long, long day.  I woke up feeling just as crappy as I felt the day before, so I decided that it was high time to get myself to the doctor.  I called Boy to see if he'd give me a ride to the campus clinic because I didn't want to get behind the wheel of a car and I REALLY didn't want to bike across campus.  He agreed and took me ( Read more... )

This is probably the worst cold I've ever had.  It's been lingering for days (probably almost a week) and last night as just awful.  I kept waking up with either blood or snot and sometimes both dripping out of my nose.  My throat is killing me from all the crap dripping down the back of it and the cold air.   My ears pop every time I blow my nose ( Read more... )

Now that I am in the so-called "right" place to live, life has gone MUCH smoother.  My roomies continue to be nice, I'm starting to settle into a schedule and I'm starting to feel more at ease here ( Read more... )

*points at tile above*  I warned ya.

So the latest family joke is that my upper lip is "Mordor" because I have a massive fever blister there that I had to get rid of and now it is disgusting and red and scabby.  It's finally healing itself up now but for a while I would look into the mirror and expect to see the Eye of Sauron looking back at me ( Read more... )

Turns out I have pinkeye.  A pretty mild case of pinkeye, but pinkeye nevertheless.

But Xan, you ask, how did you get pinkeye?

The answer?  I have no goddamned idea.

Antibiotics for the next 5-7 days.  I should stop being contagious by tomorrow.

Alert the CDC.