Someone else said this better than me last week. "Some times life is so daily."

He was very happy to see how well my sinuses have cleared up. He was less excited about the continued pressure in my sinuses. I was allergy tested on both arms and my back. While I am mildly allergic to everything, I am not actually allergic enough to get shots. This news disappointed him. "I'm usually excited to do shots. It means we have ( Read more... )

It's been hectic at moments -- getting ready for conferences, conferences, proposals, cranky satellites, time in windowless rooms. I'm getting too much encouragement to write papers and not enough support to do the work. This year I wrote a paper out of pity (ERSA), wrote a paper on a dare (autotestcon), and and wrote a paper out of desperation ( Read more... )

Clearly I am not learning from my mistakes. We left Gracie out when we went camping on Thursday, because she's always outside. We haven't seen her since. One of our neighbors found a dead cat on the 4th, but it wasn't Gracie. But it's still not very comforting. Lots of missing cats is the sign of coyotes in the neighborhood, which shouldn't be ( Read more... )

Anyone know of a reasonable hotel in Vegas? We're going next weekend on the way to conferences.

I finally got fed up enough with the cough and went back to my doctor. As I said to a friend, "How long do you have to be off your peak flow that it's no longer your peak flow?" My doctor was surprised that it hadn't cleared up, since it had been seven months since I last saw him. He thinks I have transitioned from normal asthma to cough-variant ( Read more... )

I've had a persistent cough since October. My doctor upped my medicines, since it was affecting my asthma. But the only way to get the cough to go away was Claritin in the morning, and Singulair and Zyrtec at night. I hate Zyrtec. It makes me sleep(y) constantly, makes waking up hard, and I think saps my will to live out of me. But...it also ( Read more... )

Today I had one of those days where I never really woke up. It was particularly distressing this morning. I couldn't quite manage spatial relations while driving, which was difficult when negotiating more traffic than usual. I also somehow deleted my e-mail inbox. Luckily, it is IMAP so I just needed to make the folder again. Then again, I did ( Read more... )

If there is ever a sign that you are over your ex, it would be sitting patiently in his office, listening to him talk about how much loves someone else and witnessing his broken heart (she just broke up with him). I was not that person for him, and it's fine. I love someone else and that's fine. Ultimately, there's nothing more to that ( Read more... )

After almost a year and a half together and three months of living together, Z took off early for a conference this morning and I am alone for the entire weekend. Granted, I leave Monday night for a different conference. But for now I am on the couch watching NCIS with the cat, feeling pretty bored and lame. You know, I lived alone for years and ( Read more... )