Beth, I'm glad the house concert was a success. I... sorta forgot about it, and ended up going shopping with my sister in the city. Which exhausted me, and I spent the remainder of the evening crashed on my couch, watching vids and chatting.

I can't think of one.

Okay, Spike. I thought of one. Other than that, though...it's truismlike.

Two big guys, one of whom had a stick followed me in the parking lot at krav. Luckily the guy I was with defended me. Close one, though.

Basically, two of the black belts were pissed I hadn't introduced my father to them. He stepped forward, and it all ended without contusion. I don't know how long it will be until the sight of them looming there won't make me laugh anymore.

In less funny news, ginger ale tastes bad again. I don't know if it's the increased Topamax or the concussion, but it's very sadmaking.

ita, I have a question for you. When you've "fainted," was there anything leading up to it? Like a change in vision or feelings of nausea? Or did you just drop?

I ask because it seems I had a 'sode last night.

Okay, so this is freaking me out a little bit. There's a really strong burny smell in my bedroom. I haven't been smoking in there, so not that, thank god. And there's nothing up against the radiator. So - what then? I did put some new lightbulbs in the ceiling fan earlier - any way that could be related? I want to go put some laundry in but I don't want to go away until the smell does.

Damn, Kristen -- shall we start a group home for the intermittently able? You feeling okay now?

To answer your question, this time I got a really quick darkening of the fringes of my vision, and next thing I knew I was wondering why I'd decided to go to sleep on the floor. The time before, I actually felt the falling.

Brenda, are the lights on?

Yup. Maybe I should try turning them off, hey?

I ask because it seems I had a 'sode last night.

STOP THAT!

Damn, Kristen -- shall we start a group home for the intermittently able? You feeling okay now?

BOTH OF YOU!

Brenda, have you brought any new plants into your place recently? (I know that sounds crazy but the question comes from experience.)

shall we start a group home for the intermittently able?

We might need to. Or, at least, send Allyson for stress management since I think we're seriously freaking her out.

And I think I'm okay now. I'm mostly concerned about why it happened, irritated with my body for betraying me and pissed that it happened in the middle of my FREE Aerosmith concert.

I'm hoping it was just a bad s'more and it never happens again.

Kristen, is it possible you hyperventilated? I am convinced the reason I can almost never make it through a fireworks display upright is a combination of hyperventilating and locking my knees to look up. Yes, I am a grown woman who still gets really really excited at fireworks.