Man those MIT geek scientists are Teh Shit.
Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
'Shells'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 16, 2005 9:32:13 am PST #2652 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Jesse - Dec 16, 2005 9:33:35 am PST #2653 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Am I really supposed to colour in the entire scalp to show where the pain is?
Yes. But I feel like you have described ones that were more local, or directed? Maybe fill it out tomorrow. Also really don't go back to work.
Yay for Perkins's new glasses!
TomW - Dec 16, 2005 9:37:51 am PST #2654 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
msbelle, is your year-end medical expenses stuff with a Flexible Spending Account? If so, there should be a "grace period" until March 15th 2006 to spend anything left over at the end of 2005.
IRS notice 2005-42 is the relevant notice, but your provider should have easier to digest details.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2005 9:43:54 am PST #2655 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I feel like you have described ones that were more local, or directed?
Yeah, but when you put them all together I'm colouring in the whole head. I could make it a Venn diagram, I suppose, but the picture's not really big enough for all that. I mean, there are three types of headache (migraine, normal, normal with neck involvement). They have different onset triggers, different characteristics...it almost feels like coincidence they're sharing the same real estate.
there should be a "grace period" until March 15th 2006 to spend anything left over at the end of 2005.
That's cool. Not that it's applied to me so far (I totally forgot how much I'd stashed this year and it frelled my budget for a month).
But glasses! I should get my eyes retested. I had them done at the start of all this headache crap. Which makes it three years.
aurelia - Dec 16, 2005 9:46:39 am PST #2656 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I was wondering if there was a magical mold solution, or something, but the timing doesn't work. Unless it's SoCal I'm allergic to.
Yeah, I was wondering about an environmental trigger. Have they tested for random things like mercury poisioning?
Allyson - Dec 16, 2005 9:48:30 am PST #2657 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Had a deliciously mushy conversation with the old flame (who has a girlfriend), second two-hour talk into the morning this week. I know this way is where the pain is (he has a girlfriend and I live 3000 miles away).
Lives are running parallel with screwed up brothers and family issues and there's a great deal of comfort (yes i know he has a girlfriend and lives 3000 miles away), I'm lulled into the drunken crushiness feeling I miss having.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2005 9:50:40 am PST #2658 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Have they tested for random things like mercury poisioning?
Not yet. I'm sure it's to come.
Allyson, behave! You're totally going to hurt yourself.
Jesse - Dec 16, 2005 9:51:46 am PST #2659 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, but when you put them all together I'm colouring in the whole head. I could make it a Venn diagram, I suppose, but the picture's not really big enough for all that. I mean, there are three types of headache (migraine, normal, normal with neck involvement). They have different onset triggers, different characteristics...it almost feels like coincidence they're sharing the same real estate.
I would make a note like that, then. Obviously their one little skull diagram isn't going to work for you, but they'll still need all that info. Clearly you have too much shit going on for their little pre-screener, but it can give them a start.
PS: Is this helpful, or annoying? I can stop.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2005 9:55:49 am PST #2660 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is this helpful, or annoying? I can stop.
It's not annoying. I'm grateful. When I actually sit down to fill this out, I'm going to have to make the balance between overexplaining (I'm sure they see a crapload of people with worse pain than me, and won't base my entire diagnosis on what I write down) and just wanting to discuss everything instead of documenting it.
Okay, I think I'm out of here in half an hour or so. Graargh.
lori - Dec 16, 2005 9:56:38 am PST #2661 of 10002
you need a powerpoint. an animated one, that overlays.