Please keep in mind that while Fairbanks Alaska has had six days of 70 degree weather in the past two weeks, we have been in the 50s. Seriously.

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Hi, home! Hey, Fairbanks consistently records temps in the 90s (and sometimes 100s). It just also consistently records temps in the negative 40s and 50s.

SF has been pretty warm lately, which is kind of weird. I was all prepared for summer weather, and then it got sunny and warm! Strange.

It's like gas pains times, like, a zillion.

Hmm. Your basic Bad Tummy, then.

I've been having weird lower-abdominal pains for....a while now, and I have an OB/GYN appt. tomorrow to see what's what. (Not pregnant; I've checked.) The oddest part is -- I *know* I'm fat, but my lower abdomen (belly-button downward) is disproportionately huge. I'm not saying that to justify my fat. None of my pants fit right -- they're loose (or fit properly) in the legs, but so tight on my lower abdomen that it's painful. I know it *could* be just extra fat, but combined with the unexplained pain that occurs randomly throughout the month, it's got me a little concerned. Not overly, but still. I'll be glad to get it checked out tomorrow.

(We leave for vacation in 10 days, and I have appointments out the ass between now and then, all because I want to go on vacation with a clear conscience -- 30,000-mile car tune up [we're driving my car to vacation so that HAS to be done], tire store [ditto], OB/GYN, and my first-ever leg wax next week so that I'm not Sasquatch at the beach with my BF's entire family. God, I hope it isn't excessively painful. And doesn't give me a rash afterwards. [No, no bikini area. I have a low pain threshhold.])

Still, Fall in Utah is gorgeous.

It is. The colours are beautimous, though I wish they would maintain a longer duration. Every season save winter seems to last only a moment.

my first-ever leg wax next week

I wish you luck. I advise intoxication or an altered state of some kind, and of coarse a designated driver. I have a low tollerance for pain as well, and strangers touching me makes me excessively nervous, so I tend to tense up and make it worse for myself.

Your basic Bad Tummy, then.

Yeah, however, it's getting to be a regular and more incapaciting Bad Tummy, and I'd like to figure out what the deal is. It now stretches out over 2 days and has been, exitingly, culminating in throwing up before it lets me out of its grip. (that hasn't happened yet for this occasion, but I'm not out of the woods yet)

strangers touching me makes me excessively nervous, so I tend to tense up and make it worse for myself.

Fortunately, it's not a stranger, and she knows I have sensitive skin, so I've got that going for me. (Plus, she comes highly recommended.)

I'ma take ibuprofen beforehand and hope for the best. Because I'd really rather not have to deal with daily shaving at the beach. In a house with only a couple of bathrooms and many, MANY people, all of whom are related to my BF. (Lord, what AM I doing?)

Medical~ma to Nora and Teppy with their mysterious abdominal pains.

The gronk she is mighty. I continues to rain in Minnesota, so whereas I have mown the lawn in living memory, it looks like it is returning to prairie. The cats are acting like it is miserable and cold, and Sammie stole my warm spot as I got out of bed. Sammie, who has been sleeping on the chair next to the bed because it is too hot to snuggle for her long-haired self. And if we are getting more rain, Wisconsin won't be getting a dry spell either. This keeps up, and Daniel and I might be rowing to Madison.

Via boing boing, for Miracleman: A 1944 sabotage manual (PDF) looks suspiciously like modern management techniques - [link]

(1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

(2) Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of per­ sonal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate “patriotic” comments.

(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and considera­tion.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.

(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

(5) Haggle over precise wordings of com­munications, minutes, resolutions.

(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

(7) Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reason­able” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the juris­ diction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.

my first-ever leg wax next week

Good luck! I'm contemplating going for sugaring in the next month or so. I have to do some more research on it.