He's ok!!! Murph is ok!!!

We got the biopsy results back, and the doctors have determined that he's just having a ridiculously nasty allergic reaction to something. They don't know what. The theory is some kind of bug bite.

I'm going to pick up Prednazone (a steroid) now.

I am SO HAPPY. My dog is my baby.

Yes, lame. Don't care.

My dog, Murphy, as pictured in my little LJ icon, is very sick. I am very sad. Over the weekend, these nasty little bleeding sores spontaneously erupted all over his poor little furry body. Some of them have grown quite large. The vets did a biopsy, and we're waiting to find out if it's a random cancer, skin disease, or infection ( Read more... )

It's so hot waaaaaaaaah.

One week since I had coffee ( Read more... )

I fucked up. I made a dumb factual mistake in one of my columns (it was REALLY dumb. It was about bourbon, not foreign policy or civil rights or anything truly significant) and my editor/sales people/readers are PISSED. I don't blame them. It was dumb ( Read more... )

I drink an absurd amount of coffee, like 5 or 6 cups a day. Lately I've noticed that my skin sucks, my mouth is always dry, I get constant headaches, and my stomach is hurting. It took me awhile, but I think it's somehow related to my absurd coffee consumption. I've decided to experiment, and give it up for one week, just to see how it goes. ( Read more... )

Last night, after commencement (Woohoo! although I technically don't get my actual diploma until after I return from Beijing in September) my parents took me and Sam to Helmand, an Afghan restaurant near Kendall Square. I'd never had Afghan food, and it was INCREDIBLE. Similar to Indian food (not surprising) in their use of spices--cumin and ( Read more... )

I took my Mum to Chez Henri tonight as a belated Mother's Day present, and spent a good two hours drinking wine and rum cocktails and listening to her stories about when she was my age, and the adventures she's had all over the world, and the romances she had before my dad, and what their marriage is REALLY like, and what it's like to be a mom ( Read more... )

I was just on the receiving end of this gem ( Read more... )

I. Have. A. MASTERS.