(He loved Shakespeare in Love, though. Probably since it didn't pretend to be accurate.)

Oh, yeah, that I could totally suspend belief for.

Although the bits that they did include--like the character of Philip Henslow (there really was a theatre owner by that name and the actor, Ned Allyn, married his daughter) made me happy.

Naw, this is something new. The bleeding is the result of my body trying to route blood flow around the clot. The clot itself can't be fixed with the laser.

Gah. That sucks.

Ay yai, tommyrot. Good luck.

Ay yai, tommyrot. Good luck.

Thanks. If I understand correctly, a certain amount of bleeding is OK, but if there is too much it can cause problems, which is why they wanna deal with it right away. My retina is not detached or torn or anything (which is another side effect of what I have), which is good.

My retina is not detached or torn or anything (which is another side effect of what I have), which is good.

That's good. I hope it goes well. Remember to ask for a valium for the road. In my case, my mother was driving me home from the surgery so it was really a necessity.

For some reason today I have a flood of spam with zip attachments.

Our IT guy says it's a new virus.

For some reason today I have a flood of spam with zip attachments.

I got one from Zoic Studios. Which is just weird. It's, like, targeted spam.

Yeah, I'm getting those too. Good times.

If my professor hasn't posted an online assignment yet, and we're generally supposed to respond to the online assignment the weekend before our Tuesday night class, I can be safe in assuming there won't be one this week, right?

Also, I was making great progress on my paper, but my cat just sat down on all my papers, so now I can't work. Boo hoo.

Prison Break well that's just the dumbest fucking thing Lincoln could have done.

Oh, hey, we've got a lot of editors and such types around here. Did the Harrah's story make it out of the area? Someone let a flier go out that was supposed to offer $20 or so in free chips - but somehow it came out as $525. The Illinois Gaming Board is making them honor it, to the tune of some six million dollars based on the number that were circulated before the error was discovered.

That's the kind of shit will keep you up at night, for sure.

That's like when the airlines put a flight at $1.99 instead of $199 on their website for a minute -- they usually honor it, I'm pretty sure.

OH! But when my aunt's mother had a thing like that with Ticketmaster, they totally screwed her -- it was on the local news consumer report and everything! They sold her good tickets at the cheap seat price or something.