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Interesting things Uni research throws up...
Putting the finishing touches on what was supposed to be a rather small assignment (which may need some paring back) for my Modern Irish Literature class and I came across this poem by W.B. Yeats called "Cuchulain Comforted". Cuchulain is a mythical Irish hero who is a youngish boy with quite the temper. Fortunately he's a good guy. Anyway, thought ( Read more... ) -
Good Lord!
I just had a conversation with my drunk mother (we've had family over for dinner -- some relatives have come visiting from California) in which she told me, not in so many words, that she's worried I'll end up like Amy Winehouse.
What a trip.
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For linguists, Fryphiles and people with a brain in their head :)
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/?series=3448860#/series/3448860
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Writer's Block: Bookmarks...And a catch up!!!
Good Lord...The last great book I read was Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism by Natasha Walter. I'm not a rah-rah feminist kind of person, which is not to say that I'm not a feminist -- I think it's only fair that if women have all of the same responsibilities as men, they should have all of the same rights -- I'm just not much of a flag waver. ( Read more... ) -
Oh, dear.
Snappy had an arthroscopic surgery to repair a five year old rotator cuff injury yesterday. He's been prescribed codeine and oxycodone.
The house is full of opiates and my addict brain is trying to calculate when the perfect opportunity to steal some will be. I had a four month relapse with codeine but I've been clean (again) for a month. Clearly ( Read more... ) -
My Couple of Hours With Marilyn.
OK, I'm going to try not to lay it on too thick because, as you'll see in a moment, I am completely biased when it comes to the whole Old Hollywood/Tragic Superstars thing. I really love the whole schtick not just for the stories, but for the people -- the actors (and artists, et al) who appear to be more human the more problems they have. Marilyn ( Read more... ) -
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Had the CT scans yesterday and they injected me with this weird contrastive dye stuff. It makes you feel pretty awful, however briefly.
Anyways, long story short, my brain and brain-adjacent property is totally fine. No weirdnesses appear anywhere on the scans; no lesions, no tumours, no problems in that area.
My TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) is ( Read more... ) -
More Tests!!
So, got the results of my third (and hopefully last) blood test and it looks like most things are normal. The weird thyroid function is the same, my cortisol is really high, and my levels of prolactin (some hormone that regulates the immune system) are high also. Dr Moppet said today that the high levels of cortisol are pretty much in keeping with ( Read more... ) -
Tests!
So, because I'm lucky, I've been having a few blood tests done alongside taking medication and going through therapy so the doctors can be sure that what I'm dealing with is indeed a mood disorder and not something that looks like a mood disorder but isn't.
Originally, my doctor got me to have a regular blood test, nothing fancy, just to check if ( Read more... ) -
Easily the longest day ever. For real.
So, I had that assessment this morning...At 8:45. I was awake at 7 am. Now, I know to a lot of perfectly civilised people out there, that's actually not that early, but for someone who often isn't awake until 11 and certainly isn't out of bed at that time, seven o'clock might as well have been 4 am or something.
We left in plenty of time, had Macca' ( Read more... )