I just discovered I am out of eyeliner and mascara. What's good that can be bought at Target?

Beej--wait, I am not sure what you are mad at the guy about. Did he know he had this infection and just didn't tell you? Or did you want him to ask his doctor for extra antibiotics for you or something? Because my BF loves me to death and I know he would never do anything like that for me, due to his ethical standadrds.

The good - No more work until next Wednesday!!!!!!!

The bad - I have to complete 3 homework assignments tonight before I can PLAY.

The ugly - well, I haven't packed anything, my house is a mess, and both DH and my mom are giving me grief over wanting to cut outta here (gee, wonder why I wanna run away for a bit).

No sleep for me. Bah.

And thanks for the good thoughts everyone. JZ and Cindy, I'm in complete agreement about the America-men less than brilliance about health in general. I've certainly experienced that phenomenon plenty.

Katrina! A shot and THEN the flu?!? Good lord...what a trial. I sooo feel your pain, in every way.

Those are good questions Robin. I'm upset that, despite being completely aware of my financial situation and the incredible amount of money I've spent trying to rid myself of the incredible crud that it turns out he has been re-infecting me with while not taking care of himself (completely unintentionally, of course) it did not occur to the bf to try and help when he discovered the source of my illness. I absolutely did not want him to lie to the doctor (which I think he ultimately did) but I did expect that he'd at least seek a solution.

He has this disgusting snorking sound he makes pretty much constantly. Sinuses, and spitting. It's just plain gross. For months I've been begging him to get it checked out because it didin't seem normal. As JZ theorized, he simply did not take care of it. If he had, this whole shebang could have been avoided.

So no, I don't blame him for making me sick, but I do wish he'd dealt with it sooner and had thought about me in the process.

Gronk. Major headache. Don't know why.

Also, I was at the grocery store today, and noticed that ugli fruit has been renamed "unique fruit." Amused me.

Health~ma for Beej.

Perkins, I like Cover Girl mascara, but I am SO not a makeup person. My "nice" one is Mary Kay. So bad at eyeliner, so no advice there.

Also, I've ordered two of the OA pamphlets on that site, the meal plan one and another. I'll be happy to share with anyone who's interested.

At least it isn't freedom fruit.

I'm also amused by the numbers of "Unique"s born in my city every year. Makes me think the law of averages dictates that sooner or later, more than one of them will end up in the same class.

This week's Infinite Mind on NPR featured segments on names. I had no idea that Nevaeh had become so popular. (Heaven backwards? Isn't that metaphorically someplace warmer?)

Trudy--just making sure that you got both of my emails earlier this week. I've been having server troubles at times. Just checking.

I just checked back after several hours of grading papers. Thanks, everyone, for all the maiming offers and evil glares and general "Evil Boy" thoughts. I really don't feel heartbroken, more...irritated, irked and slightly hurt. So I guess it wasn't luuuv.

On the funny side, one of my students wrote, "In the biggening of Roberto Clement's career..." and I about broke something important LMAO thinking of Homer S. and "embiggened." But I feel as if I am working (hard) towards my goal which inspired me to teach h.s. English, namely making sure freshman English comp students were funtionally literate.

Although right now, I am leaning towards thinking that stopping U.S. debt and the Iraq war would be much easier than teaching writing.

Hot shower good. Back still hurts from hunching over papers with a pencil and cursing.

Um. I had a weird moment earlier. I just found out that my landlord/friend Peter's best female friend is David Boreanaz's ex-wife. Peter and David are apparently still good friends.

Two degrees of separation. Weird.