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[opabinia]

I ordered a GMAT study guide. *shrug*

My parents ran off to NYC for the fun of it, which means Dad must be feeling pretty good. Coincidentally, I bought The Works: Anatomy of a City, which details how NYC works, infrastructure-wise, and also includes a ton of drunk party conversation trivia. "Did you know that retired subway cars travel by barge to the mid-Atlantic, where they are dumped overboard to form natural reefs for fish?" (Yes, but I keep forgetting, and it's fun to think about.)

Crap, I keep meaning to take a crack at those ATA practice passages. Rather than wait for conferences and contacts and all that, I want to see just how hard these things are from the get-go. It will be useful to measure the gap between my current translation skills and the Association's expectations. I can always pick up more passages to replicate exam conditions with.

I guard my personal email address closely, using a spam-catching Hotmail account for online shopping and the like; but some dickhead managed to sell the Spriggan addy anyway. I've been getting a slow, steady trickle of spam, which I can only expect to increase.

Cranky and horny: a bad combination.

Comments

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

That book sounds very interesting. Have you read "The Devil in the White City," BTW?

I got $5 for your spriggan address. bought me a latte. Now go put up your new bar and stop yer whining.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Have you read "The Devil in the White City," BTW?

Nope. I'll google it.

$5 for your spriggan address. bought me a latte

You don't drink coffee.

stop yer whining

I think I just feel stuck. (Refer to GMAT guide purchase.)

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

Actually I do drink coffee again. I thought that cutting it out had improved the Sickness and the Sentence of Blood, but it was just toying with me, as usual.

Nothing works. It improves or worsens as it sees fit. Currently I am bleeding like a stuck pig. Antibiotic with or without concurrent anti-inflammatories, dietary restrictions, headwork, supplementation, you name it. Nothing seems to work. This 2-3 weeks of lighter exercise is the latest test protocol.

Bah. I see the specialist guy in July. I have a long list of questions for him.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

I had begun to wonder if intra-abdominal pressure was squeezing something too much. Seems odd, but stranger things have happened.

Shit, I don't know. Acupuncture? Have they done any imaging? (I don't even know if they image that stuff.) Good luck with the appointment. I send thoughts of favorable resolution and a return to at least off-white.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

That was my thought, even a year ago. "Bleeding varices" would be the term. But the first guy said no, the Magic Finger indicated inflammation, as in bacterial inflammation. No successful culture, which is typical in these cases.

I want to know if I can get a dye-job xray to look for varices. Or ultrasound. Or SOMETHING. Maybe a better antibiotic, plus corticosteroids?

The exercise/prostatitis link usually comes from exertion on a full or partially-full bladder. Urine gets pushed back into the prostate, which then lights up. It happens a lot to guys in Basic Training, because they do long marches, cals, etc. and can't get to a latrine.

As soon as I heard this, of course, I started making sure I whizzed every time I thought about it, and several times during a visit to the gym.

Nope. Didn't make a difference.

[halo.livejournal.com]

ooooooh. Devil in the White City is one fucking fantastic book, one of the best I've read in years. It taught me so much about Chicago. Also, all the gruesome serial killing stuff took place a few blocks from my apartment! Creeeeeepy.

Read the book before you visit, so you can be creeped out, too! =)

[post-future.livejournal.com]

I second that emotion.

<3 true crime.

[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

Spam is insidious, once one gets in, it's like a floodgate. I don't even see the practicality of it, it's not like anybody (I HOPE) replies to them, just spends more and more time deleting them. That's it, they're doing it to slow down productivity and bring down the MACHINE!

[annabelle.livejournal.com]

i'm really glad to hear that your parents are feeling well enough to run off to nyc. good luck with your studying. i'm sorry that someone's spamming your email address and maybe cranky and horny is a bad combination but i imagine it could all be solved at once. you'd just have to find someone who didn't care that you were cranky. good luck! :>

[subatomicsatan.livejournal.com]

Cranky and horny: a bad combination.

off to the loo for a wank!

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Nah, that doesn't appeal. Plus, I'll just get sleepy at work.

P.S.

[post-future.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for mentioning that book about NYC infrastructure!

If the subject matter were any more up my alley, the damn book would have my name on it. Almost broke my fingers trying to type the title into an Amazon search.

[talesinsdaughtr.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear your dad is feeling well enough to make suprise trips :)