Half the office took today off. Several others are "sick". Also, it's payday. I'm thinking long lunch today.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Calli - Jul 02, 2010 6:26:42 am PDT #24519 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
smonster - Jul 02, 2010 6:32:42 am PDT #24520 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Yay Ireland!
I'm rooting for Ghana and the Netherlands.
Advance warning for grossness: Frankie has hookworms . I don't know for how long. So now I'm paranoid that I have them. I don't walk outside barefoot, and I generally don't let him lick my face, but I'm worried that somehow from petting him and then eating, or something, I might be infected. Am I totally nuts?
lisah - Jul 02, 2010 6:34:49 am PDT #24521 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I might be infected. Am I totally nuts?
Er..speaking as someone who got mange from a dog, no. Those were fun times, let me tell you! 3 dogs and 3 humans all with the mange!
smonster - Jul 02, 2010 6:41:28 am PDT #24522 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Er..speaking as someone who got mange from a dog, no.
...so I might want to go visit my healthcare professional. Dammit. Don't have time today, long weekend, blah blah.
lisah - Jul 02, 2010 6:44:51 am PDT #24523 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
...so I might want to go visit my healthcare professional. Dammit. Don't have time today, long weekend, blah blah.
Well I don't really know about hookworm and how transmissible it is or anything. We all got the mange because one of the dogs had an immuno-suppressant disease at the time and he was way more infected with them than a normal dog would have been.
Strix - Jul 02, 2010 6:46:30 am PDT #24524 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Was he a sea dog, lisah?
Could you call him a "mangy sea dog?" Because that would be the only fun part of mange.
lisah - Jul 02, 2010 6:50:45 am PDT #24525 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
He was rather piratical! I can't find any pictures of him on flickr but here is a drawing:
We had a song about him.
smonster - Jul 02, 2010 6:52:21 am PDT #24526 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Well I don't really know about hookworm and how transmissible it is or anything.
I read the CDC info page. Mostly humans get them under their skin from walking barefoot in infected soil. But it is possible to inadvertantly swallow larvae and that's what I'm worried about. I'm waiting for a call back from my clinic as a sanity check.
beekaytee - Jul 02, 2010 7:58:03 am PDT #24527 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
smonster, I highly recommend laying in a supply of Panacur. It works a treat and is safe for most dogs. I have given it to Bartleby twice this year.
I'm betting that you aren't at risk from cross-exposure, but getting advice is a good idea. Given how hard it is to isolate parasites, I'm not sure what kind of test they'd need.
Please pass along any any info you get about human parasiticals, would you? I have no info on this at all.
Scrappy - Jul 02, 2010 8:03:39 am PDT #24528 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Root for The Netherlands, because that's where my brother lives and is in the process of getting citizenship! My brother the Dutch dude!