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Get me off this crazy thing.
Regarding the wacky side effects of drugs that appear in approximately .014% of users: It turns out that I am the .014% of users. Radiating back pain and headache over the right eye? Got it. Nausea, fatigue, and sleep disturbances? Right on schedule. Dry mouth, indigestion, and metallic taste in one’s mouth? I’ll take one [...]
Status Woe
Facebook status is an occasionally interesting, mostly banal, sometimes humorous window into the lives of people I know but do not see often enough to know much about their day to day lives. Mostly, it’s fun. I know that one friend is rapidly losing weight, I get little updates about my fellow teacher training graduates [...]
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Conversation
The following conversation happened on my way home today.
Brain: Great! We have time to stop home, take the second prilosec and eat something before class.Esophogeal Sphincter: Oatmeal.Brain: We’re out of oatmeal. We’ll get some tomorrow.ES: Oatmeal.Brain: There isn’t time to stop at the Health Concern, or even Shoppers, and Super Fresh is way too expensive.ES: [...]
Good Ideas and Bad Ideas
If there is one thing this freaking two month nauseathon has done, other than instill ungodly amounts of paranoia, it has given me some window into the eating habits of the expectant – which I need to make very, abundantly, totally clear I am NOT. In fact, I just overheard a conversation my uterus was [...]
Alternatives
I felt awful last night. My stomach was doing its best impression of a three year old holding her breath and throwing a tantrum, so I sat up until after midnight looking at vintage dresses on eBay. It got worse when I tried to go to sleep. I set my alarm for 5:30 for my [...]
Ailments Large and Small
When I woke up for good this morning at twenty after seven, I had two ideas: I could go to the 8am astanga class in Towson, or I could quickly make some waffles and veggie sausage for Scott before he left to meet his Mom at York Hospital, where his father has been since falling [...]
Lizard Brain