For all that Richard may jeer at my methods of organizing my digital photos, I’m happy with them for now. One of the ways I deal with the steadily accumulating data is to go back to “this date” a year ago, two years ago, etc, and see what has been left unprocessed.
One year [...]
After an exhausting day of punching my urinary tract via day #1 of antibiotics[1], which may or may not be causing me to hallucinate that I am Cher, I just want to post this photo I took of an anemone. Just a simple autumn Japanese anemone.
[1] Please note that the Rector of the Beemouse [...]
As Provost, Chancellor, President, and Rector of the Beemouse Institute for Advanced Study, it is my pleasure to announce October 22nd as Punch Your Urinary Tract Day.
The aim of Punch Your Urinary Tract Day is to increase awareness of how terribly, terribly lame it is to experience symptoms of urinary tract pathology. We expect [...]
I feel like talking about cigarettes right now.
I’m right in the middle of a nicotine craving. I don’t smoke that often. I’m in the “mooching” stage, where I just smoke socially and steal from friends with cigarettes in that really annoying, sad way.
I’ve quit and started again multiple times, over [...]
I’m so excited for one of my coworkers– his sister, Leila Josefowicz, just won a MacArthur Fellowship (the “Genius Award”) for her pioneering work in violin performance.
She’s just 30, and she’s already achieved so much! My god…
We talked about her this morning, and about some of the work she’s been doing, and it got [...]
Today is a special anniversary. Three years ago on this day, on September 10th, 2005, I attended a party with a bunch of close friends. The night of (and day after) this party, some crazy gossip spread, which ended up causing a giant shitstorm of drama between my closest friends and I. [...]
Today I’m laying in bed, sick as a dog, but I’m typing in this here bed. That’s because we got a new laptop. I have never had a nice laptop before, to use as my own. A 17″ Macbook purchased at a considerable, compelling discount from our university store. Holy crap. [...]
Last week during therapy I was talking about the periods into which my life is divided. A common symptom of chronic PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) is that the patient automatically creates a demarcation line in their mind that separates life “before” the event, and life “after” the event.
In my case, since [...]
I am seriously stressing about work. Last night I couldn’t sleep… I got up, took some extra pills from my well-stocked pharmacy (the joy of chronic illness!), downed a glass of ice water, knocked a bunch of stuff over next to the bed and woke Richard up, adjusted the rotary fan to point right [...]
That’s how I feel emotionally.
I sprained my ankle a few weeks ago and I think the constant pain and irritation of having to take care of it is wearing me down. It was interesting to experience “acute” pain as compared to the normal “chronic” pain (for about two days) but now I’ve just had [...]