although I'd still putatively name a daughter Anaïs.

Now I'm imagining that she exists in some other reality....

"I'm ita's putative daughter Anaïs. Yeah, everyone refers to me as putative because there's that one reality where I don't exist. You know, the one with the shrimp and the single Wednesday per week - the one that's not crazy-melty land...."

I have never been able to see flickering refresh rates.

I hear them. I can't usually see them. I am glad I am not a migraineur. (Migraineuse?)

My other salty kryptonite, recently discovered, is salting chocolate while it's still melty, and eating the salted chocolate. (Actually it all started with taking Saltines, and pouring some kind of toffeelike substance over them, and then pouring chocolate over that, but I realized after awhile what I was really liking was just the chocolatey Saltines.

Nutty kind of stole what I was about to say. I don't like straight-up salt, but it is excellent with sweet (something about how taste buds work)-- so watermelon and chocolate are excellent with salt.

This is going to sound ridonkulous, but one of my migraine triggers is strobing lights - especially camera red-eye flash and really crappy CRT screens. There was one in an office where I had to work sometimes that could set me off about three minutes after I walked in the room. Flat screens better.

That doesn't surprise me. Strobes can trigger seizures. Some brains clearly don't like 'em.

Migraineuse?

Oui.

it is excellent with sweet (something about how taste buds work)-- so watermelon and chocolate are excellent with salt

Interesting. I don't characterise watermelon as sweet. I've been told because I've been having the wrong watermelon, but I don't want it to be sweet. With my chocolate I like pepper. Mmm. That's my taste sensation.

Took my first salt pill.

Life is weird. (that was Leif is weird at first--perhaps true, just less relevant, though still charming)

Finished Henry & June. That languid bohemian sensuality leaves me confused and wondering what I'm missing. I just can't imagine the drama as part of an actual life. And, frankly, disappointed by the raciness. Tentacle porn was what pushed it to to NC17? Puh-lease.

I'm not much of a salt fan either, so cheese was the most appealing thing on the high-sodium list to me.

My worlds are colliding. One of my summer students has friended me on Facebook.

I am the anti-ita on this. I am crazy about salt, but that may be due to my upbringing what with the soy sauce and the nori and the general sea-related products. The SO worries about how much salt I consume, so I try to cut down, but it's rarely successful. When I break down foods I like it almost always comes down to salt. Thought I loved butter, but I bought unsalted (still sweet cream) butter, and not so much. I wanted to salt my buttered toast. Thought I loved rice, but it's probably just the salt I put on it. Tomatoes? Yum. Salted. You get where I'm going with this. Yeah, cheese, too.

And yet again, I'm probably the sub-taster, and therefore don't taste it the way all you crazy supertasters do. Mmm, bring on the brussels sprouts.

Anyway, hope it helps.

(that was Leif is weird at first--perhaps true, just less relevant, though still charming)

Leif* may or may not be weird, but he is a very good kisser.

(Yes. I will mention this whenever possible for the rest of my life.)



* Garret, not Gudanov

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orthostatic hypotension could explain the fainting, anyway

I think that's what they're ascribing it to. All my tests come up clean. But it finally went far enough that I fainted and concussed myself again,

Geez ita, now you're really sounding like my exgf! She, too, was having fainting spells, and they made her take salt tablets. And she's got the bad migraines as well (Botox helped for a while, for her, but not completely, and she can't always afford it, since her insurance won't pay...she smokes a lot of pot, I think, but I"m not sure if it helps the migraines, or just makes her less annoyed by them)