Also, your doctor gave it to you, which means it's fine

Right. But I had been taking Delsym for a couple of days before that. Again to the horror of everyone else around me. She said, "OVer the counter cold and flu meds are fine as long as they don't have alcohol or aspirin."

Of course when I have a three-headed baby, we'll know who to blame. But for now I'm embracing my codeine cough syrup.

Seriously? Will someone else do my poems and thesis please!

I'm stuck on my first damn poem because I'm playing with the image of a hellmouth and everyday sins. I can't get the first verse done which is problematic because then I can't get the pattern established for my other verses. DER.

I wonder if Jesse was consumed by a massive mound of bread dough overnight.

Like the blob!

Sue, how's the new house?

I have no poetry for you, Kat. I do have a pukey kid you could borrow for the day, though. You know, if you want to practice.

Of course when I have a three-headed baby, we'll know who to blame. But for now I'm embracing my codeine cough syrup.

A couple years back I found a book from the 40s -- Eastman's Expectant Motherhood, I think it was called -- and man, they wanted you to sit back and enjoy your pregnancy like whoa. Feeling stressed? Take a sleeping pill! Need a little romance to lift your spirits? Have your husband make you a cocktail! It was bizarre, from a 90s perspective. But I really believe that 98 percent of the time, OTC meds and even an occasional glass of wine or cup of coffee (or two) is NOT going to affect your baby. There's a lot of CYA that goes into modern OB practice, with the malpractice problem.

That's so true, Amy.

One thing I hated about being pregnant -- all the other pregnant people contradicting my OB. That's why when someone wants to know what cold meds they can take or whatever, I always tell them to ask their doctor.

I wonder if Jesse was consumed by a massive mound of bread dough overnight.

This image is making me giggle!

I need to do laundrey and I don't want to, but it is urgent! No clothing! Will need to go to work naked! And I am trying to break myself of the habit of going out and buying clothes when this happens. I realize it isn't so much the lazyness of not wanting to do the laundrey, but the laziness of not wanting to deal with the steps and the doors involved (3 doors, 3 flights of stairs). And since there is only one washer/dryer for all of the people here, I feel like I can't hog it all day on a Sunday, so I need to pick and choose what I wash. I used to do my wash at the theatre, but for some reason both the Hot and cold water are warm. Or rather the hot is hot, and the cold is warm. I thought for awhile that the lines were just switched, but there is no cold water! I think that the cold water pipe runs along the heat pipe, and is getting secondary warmth.

I have already been to the Grocery Store, and I'm changing my allegiance over to the Whole Foods near Alewife, since they reliably carry the Cherry Almond Ginger Chew cookies that I crave. They are seriously like crack!cookies for me.

Theo- you were in my dream last night. I was trying to get to New York City for a Buffista F2F, and I kept missing my plane, and my train, etc. It was all very complicated, and I was running out of money, and was starting to work for the airport (which was, in my dream, owned by my University). At some point, when I was frantically trying to call Buffistas to say that I would be late, you and Jon B. were in the airport, so I told you! Apparantly, the flight from Boston to NYC had a layover in Rochester!

Then it turned out I couldn't be hired or get paid for my work at the airport because I already had a full-time job at the University. Also, the airport had just spent a lot of money because there was a horrible sotrm and the snow needed to be cleaned up. I argued with the head airport guy, and said that at least I should get paid for the work I had already done, and he was shocked, surprised, and dissappointed in me!

I wonder if Jesse was consumed by a massive mound of bread dough overnight.

I wasn't! As brenda said, it didn't make any difference -- my blob looks just like the blob in the video!

Kat, my mom had that terrible ongoing cough a little bit ago. It eventually went away, but she just had to ride it out. Yuck.

Sophia, I am totally with you on the desperate need to do laundry and the complete desire not to do it. Per usual.

I was under the impression that there's very little evidence that Jesus actually lived.

IIRC from the last big honkin' book on the subject I read (which was long before the pregnancy and is thus a completely vague and detail-free memory), the main problem is that there's very little evidence that anyone back then lived -- if you weren't a wealthy man or in government or both, there was very little reason for anyone to record your existence at all (maybe birth and death records in temples, unfortunately easily destroyed).

There are a couple of glancing mentions (i.e., not pronouncements with any agenda pro or con, just "Oh, and here's word from the provinces") of Jesus' execution and a kerfuffle among his siblings and friends in the works of two historians of the time, about as much mention as you'd expect of someone poor and obscure who pissed off the authorities in a not-terribly-important corner of a huge empire and got himself smacked down as a result. It isn't much, but it's more than exists for most 2000-year-ago Palestinian peasants.

But, man, that whole Cameron thing sounds exactly like a rehash of the book folks were claiming Davinci Code plagiarized from, which IIRC (caveat again: post-pregnancy brain) is a book that most reputable historians have been @@ing at since forever anyway.

Oh, Kat! I'm getting tired just reading about the sick and the sestinas and grad school. Bless your OB for the codeine.

And holy crap, having caught up completely I am now craving eggy custardy ice cream like woah. Unfortunately, it's only 7:44 a.m.

“There are four or five generals and admirals we know of who would resign if Bush ordered an attack on Iran,” a source with close ties to British intelligence said. “There is simply no stomach for it in the Pentagon, and a lot of people question whether such an attack would be effective or even possible.”

That'd be amazing. Although the list of principled resignations of good people from this administration over one wrong action or policy after another is already pretty long, and they haven't made a damn bit of difference to any of the wrong actions and policies. Bleah.