first there was sushi then there was sashimi -- I usually get a mixture of both. Less rice. and now I want the tower of tuna sashimi ( I don't know what it is really called) from Straits cafe in Sf. Which I can't afford. but so good.....

someone at work that does not know me well just used a diminutive of my name in an email response with other people cc'd. She must die.

ION - Why do I go look at real estate in TX???

Dear People Who Stand In Front Of The Coffee Urns Chatting Or Arranging The Stuff In Your Bag Or Just Staring Off In To Space As A Growing Horde Of Angry Caffeine Addicts Circles And Circles And Circles,

You know we're planning to kill you, right?

xoxo,
Me

something about the name of this is awesome. It's like you're afflicted with being a Musketeer.

I know! That is pretty cool. It's all old timey, exotic... and swashbucking!

Come to think of it, I can imagine sword work being very hard on this particular part of the wrist/hand...

But the vinegar that's used in sushi rice makes it lower on the glycemic index than non-sushi white rice (yes, that's despite the fact that sushi rice has sugar in it; go figure).

They should film that and show it every Christmas!

So... is it THAT vinegar, or vingar in general?

I'm not sure about that, since I read about it in conjunction with sushi factoids.

I have De Quervain's Tenosynovitis

Nora! That's exactly what I had last year around summer/fall, IIRC. After a big honking shot of cortisone and a few weeks of wearing a really infuriating brace that I was only supposed to take off when I showered, it was all better and so far hasn't returned.

I seem to be taking my second sick day of the year.

Yay me?

Dear People Who Stand In Front Of The Coffee Urns Chatting Or Arranging The Stuff In Your Bag Or Just Staring Off In To Space As A Growing Horde Of Angry Caffeine Addicts Circles And Circles And Circles,

You know we're planning to kill you, right?

::hearts amych::

After a big honking shot of cortisone and a few weeks of wearing a really infuriating brace that I was only supposed to take off when I showered, it was all better and so far hasn't returned.

Yeah, I learned last night that I really should sleep with it on. I didn't get the cortisone shot, they don't do that at the on campus medical center, but if the discomfort continues or worsens I can go elsewhere for it.

I'm rewatching parts of last night's Leverage. I liked the ep, but it's oddly split between the fun Hardison-Eliot-Parker stuff and the serious Nate/Sophie. I like the fun stuff so much more, and it seems like two different shows, kind of mushed together. Also, when did Hardison learn to fight even that well? None of those guys were injured.

After a big honking shot of cortisone and a few weeks of wearing a really infuriating brace that I was only supposed to take off when I showered, it was all better and so far hasn't returned.

Yeah, I learned last night that I really should sleep with it on.

My problem is that I kept pulling it off in the middle of the night.

I didn't get the cortisone shot, they don't do that at the on campus medical center, but if the discomfort continues or worsens I can go elsewhere for it.

What I learned is that you really need to have the shot done by someone who is familiar with the injury, because the location of the shot has to be pinpointed just right. My primary-care doctor gave me a steroid shot in the general area where it was causing pain -- and he spent a while trying to make sure he got it in the right spot -- and it didn't really help.

I had to see a hand specialist (I wonder if those doctors get bored, looking at injured hands and nothing else, all day long?), and he nailed it on the first try. Of course, that's all he does, all day long.