{{{{{smonster}}}}}

{{{{{askye}}}}}

smonster, baby, I'm coming in a little late, but I wouldn't judge you in a million years -- I'm just glad you've got amyth and Calli and all the remote love of the Buffistae coming at you.

askye, I'm wishing *very* hard for you to have some kind of an answer, and soon!

Ugh, find-out-soon-ma to you, askye.

Smonster, I am sorry. Wine and friends. Wine and friends.

smonster, baby, I'm coming in a little late, but I wouldn't judge you in a million years

For the record, I would judge you if it meant I GOT TO BITE YOU MORE!!!!!

Smonster was naughty? Judge judge judge! Om nom nom!

Hmm, Trudy has a point.

NOM.

smonster, I'm sorry the thing didn't go the way you hoped it would. But good for you, getting it done anyhow. Try not to read his emails! And, damn, if the man won't drive across town to a woman's house to try and win her back, he doesn't deserve her.

Also, nom.

askye, I'm not just saying this because *I* have it (you know how, when someone gets diagnosed with something, they think that everyone has it? my dad used to do it with heart disease all the time -- I'd say I was tired [at age 21] and he'd say, in Eeyore-voice, that *he* thought it was probably heart disease and I should see a cardiologist -- not that 21-year-olds can't have heart disease, and given my family history it's possible, but he wasn't the most reliable diagnosticator, you know?), but I'm wondering if your pain is gastrointestinal, like IBS or IBD.

I'm only wondering because I had a lot of pain last year in the pelvic area, so I assumed it was ladyparts-related. I got the dildocam ultrasound, and nothing. And then it turned out to be IBS.

I'm really not trying to be like my dad and diagnose you with what I have, but the symptoms are similar-ish, although your description of it the other night (a "spherical" pain, I think, plus didn't you say it kind of goes down your hip/thigh?) wasn't similar to my gastrointestinal issues. But some of the other symptoms are, so since nothing else is showing up on tests, maybe that's something to talk to your doctor about.

{{{smonster}}} Sorry to hear he's making it so hard for you. I hope you can get some non-stressful time this weekend.

askye, best wishes for a speedy discovery of what's wrong. Having spent 28 years undiagnosed, I know the frustration of not being taken seriously by doctors. You sound like you're pushing it, which also sounds like totally the right thing to do. I hope they figure out what it is really soon.

Saturday. Day for the first of my two criminology essays. Classical criminology vs positivism. Not the most exciting subject ever. I'm having 'what the hell should I do with my life?' issues. It was always the plan that I lived on my savings this (academic) year and focused on PhD funding, but I get *so bored* - despite needing to sleep a lot and only having about three really productive hours a day, most days. Gah. Sometimes I hate being a sickly person. I want to teach. Hmm.

{{{{smonster}}}} I wish it could have been easier. I'm so sorry, sweetie.

I also love Trudy and Erin's father.

Seska, so much ~ma for you and the Girl and coming over here. As I said, I'm willing to do A LOT to see your ass in my country, in person. Not that I'm suggesting that that's the most interesting part of you.

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positivism

is the Nazi Germany of the scientific theories.

I'm having 'what the hell should I do with my life?'

Come to Israel! We'll have coffee!

Today I get to ramble around Chapel Hill and Durham with smonster and amyth. (Mostly rambling via car rather than walking, as my ankle's still being something of a little bitca.) Yay! I haven't been out of the apartment for anything except one day of work since Sunday. But first, coffee and a trip to the vet.