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.

Ha! I was just on my way to post the same thing.

But there is hope. Look, over there, Unicorns! [link]

of course, they can only be photographed by a virgin ....

of course, they can only be photographed by a virgin ....

Or someone with access to photoshop...

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.

Sounds glorious. Overcast and an ocean. Bliss.