so I am getting a series 2 TIVO for free tonight. I am gonna need help setting it up I think.

Come on guys, help distract me. I am grading, but every couple papers I need a distraction so "If you can get 30 miles per gallon, how many miles could you drive on 10 gallons? 3" doesn't completely destroy me.

I just stumbled across the finale of this "Laddettes to Ladies" show, where they take trashy English girls, send them to finishing school, culminating in an actual debutante ball. I wish I had seen the whole thing! What's nice is that even though the fancy people at the ball called them out for not being the "real" debs (basically based on their accents), they said how lovely and poised they were.

Dana, are the hives all over, or in one area? I'm just thinking about the recent leakage into your place, and wondering about mold and mildew. I know you said they applied fungicide to your carpets though, right?

Tons of fungicide. On carpet and walls. Carpet pad was replaced, carpet was steam-cleaned. We think it's pretty unlikely. I did think of it, though. I'm in that fun stage where I'm halfway convinced that I have everything from Toxic Shock Syndrome to Ebola.

I was just about to scoff that of course you don't have Ebola because you'd already be dead if you did, but the CDC is telling me that the incubation period for Ebola hemorrhagic fever is actually 2-21 days.

Have you been in contact with any monkeys?

Not that I remember. Or poison ivy. Or, really, much of the outdoors at all.

t not scratching, not scratching...

FWIW,it's possible to get poison ivy by coming in contact with stuff -- clothes et cetera -- that got the offending oil on it years ago. Though you'd show the rash where you touched it, most likely your hands and where your hands touched elsewhere, like your face!

Have you tried calomine lotion? It's old-fashioned but effective.

I think poison ivy is very, very unlikely. My hands are fine.

I did have to google measles, even though I know there's no chance I have measles. You know what's fun? Trying to google skin rashes.

Wait, no, I mean "not fun."

I'd forgotten until a couple of days ago about calamine lotion, which I love. It's pink! Depending on what the doctor says, I may need to pick some up.

I mistook your board name for Cashmere's, and almost nagged you to death for running hills with your back, and since you have the Shingles, which you would, if you were Cashmere, but you don't, since you're Consuela.

Unless you see the words "being chased by a bear" after the running part, assume any post having to do with running is someone other than me.

I don't run.

Except in the case of the aforementioned bear.

Ouch, you guys! What's up with y'all's skin?