Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.

Anya ,'Get It Done'


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.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 21, 2010 2:28:34 pm PST #7466 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

askye- I have to second what everyone else says. Take a sick day. You are sick, as evidenced by the IV antibiotics. Perhaps three days off in a row will help you get well. Also, perhaps you are not thinking clearly because you are sick.


Hil R. - Jan 21, 2010 2:33:07 pm PST #7467 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

askye, what everyone else said. You're sick, you can take a sick day.


Vortex - Jan 21, 2010 2:46:07 pm PST #7468 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Do I need to call someone? You know I will.


Helena Handbasket - Jan 21, 2010 3:07:45 pm PST #7469 of 30000
Smart people can be stupid too

Poking my head out of my safe lurkey-hidey-hole to weigh in with a marginally medical opinion (I'm not a "real nurse" yet but I know stuff, really!).

Stay home, askye! You are sick, even if you feel that you don't look it. Fighting off an infection like yours takes an immense amount of energy and intensive antibiotic therapy is exhausting. You are absolutely justified in staying home.

Signed, Not a Doctor, but you can pretend I am if it helps!


Tom Scola - Jan 21, 2010 3:15:15 pm PST #7470 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Dude, if anyone doubts why you stayed at home, you can say, "The lurkers support me!"


ChiKat - Jan 21, 2010 3:49:16 pm PST #7471 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Adding my voice to the chorus: stay home, askye. You *are* sick.


omnis_audis - Jan 21, 2010 4:04:00 pm PST #7472 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

not a doctor here, but have spent my fair share on the recieving end of the medical world. Askye, not to gang up on you, but, if ya got a bag hanging off your arm, you shouldn't go to work. If you are fighting off infection, your body needs to relax and do it's thing. {{{ Askye }}}}


Steph L. - Jan 21, 2010 4:12:19 pm PST #7473 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Randomly: a while ago, when I was pimping Urban Decay's 24/7 eyeliner, someone -- maybe Trudy? -- asked if the black liner had glitter in it (b/c the rest of the liners had glitter [or something shimmery; the eyeliner wasn't just matte]), and the answer was no. The black was the only one of the 24/7 line that had no glitter/shimmer.

HOWEVER! I was just poking around the Sephora site, and apparently Urban Decay DOES now have a black 24/7 eyeliner WITH glitter/shimmer. They still have the matte one also, but now there is glittery black.

This has been your girly-girl public service announcement.

ION, I need a haircut badly. It brushes my shoulders, and it's getting tiresome. I'm thinking ear-length and flippy. If only The Boy was blase about my haircuts.

IOotherN, I'm having a moderate IBS flare-up that I'm tempted to label "severe" only because it won't let up. Normally, with drugs, it eases up after a couple of hours, but it will not ease up today. I hurt so much just walking from my car to the gym that I stopped at the doors to the gym, turned around, and came home.

I always admit when I ate something to make it flare up (ah, sugar, my old nemesis), but this time I really *haven't*! At least, I haven't eaten sugar or any other thing know is a trigger.

I just want to fix it, but it's impossible to do so when I don't know what the cause was. Stupid body. Be more invincible!


§ ita § - Jan 21, 2010 4:22:14 pm PST #7474 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

askye, you're having a bit of the thinking that makes people stop taking antibiotics too early. They're because you're not well. Seriously. If you felt well, you'd know it. I bet you don't even remember what that feels like.

Nurses keep asking me why I haven't gotten an IV port. I'm insanely hard to stick. They talk about me behind my back at the nurse's station and try and get around IVing me. Last time they just went straight for the ej (vein in the neck--takes a doctor instead of a nurse) instead of fiddling with my arms, and it still took them three tries to get in.

But it sounds like a port is a fuss to maintain. I don't want one of those all the time! Sounds like a short term thing, if you can possibly restrict it. I honestly don't mind them poking around in my arms 8 or 9 times once a week. It just bruises awful messily.


juliana - Jan 21, 2010 4:34:19 pm PST #7475 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

HOWEVER! I was just poking around the Sephora site, and apparently Urban Decay DOES now have a black 24/7 eyeliner WITH glitter/shimmer. They still have the matte one also, but now there is glittery black.

Oil Slick came back? HALLELUJAH! (I have the Oil Slick lipstick. LOVE.)

askye, backing up what everyone else said. Please take care of yourself, honey.