Well, that was fun. I am apparently one of the few, the proud, those who have an extreme reaction to the IV iodine solution they give you for computer tomography. In addition to the expected flush of heat and funny taste, I also got a feeling of constriction in my chest, shortness of breath, and fast-onset nausea that made me puke while still laying halfway in the scanner. My day is complete.

Oh sheeesh, Matt. Did they give you anything to counteract it?

Yikes, Matt! Are you feeling better now?

I am of the firm opinion that, in general, the paler your skin, the sooner you age.

Yeah, that seems about right. It definitely seems true in my family -- my British-heritage grandmother has always seemed way "older" looking than my French-heritage grandmother.

Oh, Matt. That sucks. And here I was about to whinge that the last hour of my work day is taking approximately forever.

That sucks, Matt. It's bad enough to take those tests, without having them turn on you.

One of the IT guys just sent an email entitled "Daylight Savings Time and You."

It's about issues with Outlook not putting meetings at the right time, and to double check them.

Most of it was pulled verbatim from the Microsoft help page regarding the DST change.

It's also 4:49 on a Friday, and most of the staff is finishing up an off-site inservice.

facepalm

On Allyson's water table: it would totally get my parental seal of approval. Seems like a great gift.

On ita's titas, I mean her wraparound dress issue: Why not wear a camisole under it? Thanks to the current trend of jersey shirts too low cut to wear politely without a camisole, I think you could pull it off.

And lastly, to Selma Hayek's age: 40 is lovely, see? I mean, I'm sure she has a lot more means than I do to combat aging (like botox, collagen, restalyne, and the works) but even so I think that if you take even moderate care of yourself 40 isn't OLD, even if it is, technically, middle aged.

It's about issues with Outlook not putting meetings at the right time, and to double check them.

Our IT department has been sending out several of those messages. I have nothing in my calendar, so it's a pretty easy fix for me!

We'll see about the rest of my electronic devices this weekend.

OMG, everyone's freaking out so bad about this DST thing. We actually got a Windows patch to download, so I'm hoping my work computer will sort itself out?

But seriously, people.

I'm feeling fine now, the effects were pretty transitory. Though I didn't appreciate the well-meaning techs telling me that people sometimes panic when the push of IV fluids makes the heart rate to go up and cause a flush.

I don't think it was so much the flush of warmth (that I'd been warned about in advance) that made me panic as the HAVING TO FIGHT TO DRAW A BREATH and feeling like someone was putting 100 lbs. of pressure on my diaphragm. I was pretty calm until that hit.

I'm Whitie MacWhite of the Clan MacWhite.

Yeah, you know a lot of buffistas think they're pale, but in my experience there's fair skinned and then there's brenda.