Where can you find lions?

Only in Kenya.

...but come to Thailand, we've got tigers! (and leopards and elephants and Malayan sun bears black bears and dolphins and pangolins and barking deer and mouse deer and dugongs...)

Apparently.

Thyroid is a good candidate for exhaustion, sj. And would be my first thought as both my mom and my grandma had underactive thyroids. That will be a good thing for it to be as you'll bounce back fast with the synthroid, iirc. (/differential)

The only reason I don't think it is thyroid is because I have had it checked before and it has been fine. Plus, wouldn't I be losing weight rather than gaining it?

I was talking to a friend of mine who's aware of my internet life and I was trying to explain fanfic. She didn't understand it - why write it, why read it, why it even exists.

Did you point her to the existence of Wicked, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, The Wide Sargasso Sea or 10 Things I Hate About You?

'cause that'd be my first thought. Followed by taking her to a bookshop and pointing at all the Trek, Buffy, Doctor Who, Star Wars et al novels. Not to mention the novelization of every damn blockbuster movie that comes out.

Great news, sj!

Drugs for the flight sounds like an excellent plan.

No - it's one of those subjects we just sort of let drop. We connect on a lot of things, but my internet life isn't one of them. I know she's peeked in here - once during a conversation with some other friends she said something about, "the THINGS they talk about!"

So, we talk about things we have in common.

edited to wave to Fay

You know, I have been thinking about fanfic and 'shipping lately. I remember when I was in 7th grade I read some YA Romance about a girl reporter and two guys whon lived in the same boarding house with her, one a fireman and the other something not s exciting. I can't remember the title or author or any more details than that, but at the time I was moved to write a letter to the heroine when I was halfway through the book, telling her how I thought she should resolve her romantic dilemma.

As I recall, the actual ending of the book was better than what I wantedto happen, 'ship-wise anyway.

I don't read or write much fanfic these days, but it still seems like a basic and obvious response.

Yay, Aimee!!!

I have no use for spas. I like massage to be corrective, which tends to be on the painful side. I tend to give that, as well, given that I work in a chiropractic office.

I need d to give me a massage.

The only reason I don't think it is thyroid is because I have had it checked before and it has been fine. Plus, wouldn't I be losing weight rather than gaining it?

Not necessarily. With an underactive thyroid you get the exhaustion AND weight gain. It wouldn't hurt to test it since it's just a simple blood test.

Not necessarily. With an underactive thyroid you get the exhaustion AND weight gain. It wouldn't hurt to test it since it's just a simple blood test.

I guess I had it backwards in my mind. Thanks. The test is already being run and I should have the results by the end of next week (because of the holidays).

P-C, you know about McGriddle Fan Fiction, right?

Now, this is Food Fanfic that appeals to me, because, besides the obvious yumminess factor, there's so much more potential for melodrama. For over three quarters of every day, you don't see it. It doesn't call. It's completely unavailable!

hi everybody!