So apparently vertigo wasn't enough, now I have viral conjunctivitus--WTF body?!? I guess everything really does go downhill after 40.

Oh megan, that sucks! Will you be feeling well enough to attend our thing on Saturday night?

Holy crap megan. I hope you are feeling better soon.

Question for gardeners: I have shelling peas growing for the first time. How do I know when they are ready to pick?

I would say nom the peas, and see if they are good? It seems like the right time of years (peas after strawberries).

I have aquanet nostalgia, too, as nothing seems to work as well for crazy theatre hairstyles AND costs 99 cents a can. I felt bad for the poor props master who I sent for aquanet, when I really meant any cheapo hairspray. She is Italian, not American, and had to look in three or four stores before she found the Aquanet! Since it isn't the same, I would have been fine with White Rain, or whatever.

Oh megan, that sucks! Will you be feeling well enough to attend our thing on Saturday night?

Ooh, I had forgotten about that, but I feel fine. My eye only really bothers me wearing my contacts.

It's just sort of funny that I am currently doing my vertigo exercises three times a day and now applying a cold compress four times a day.

You forgot me and our thing??

:::::cries:::::

At this point, I'm not thinking that far ahead. My old bones may have disintegrated by that time.

I am still debating gay marriage with an acquaintance's high school teacher (oh fb). It's very civil, which is refreshing, but his argument so far seems to be - there are other ways for gay couples to get those rights. I made an analogy about being told to go to a thousand stores hundreds of miles apart instead of one store where other people get to shop, we'll see what he says.

Anyway, that's all great, but now it's after 7:30 and I haven't had dinner and I don't have much I can cook and really oughtn't go out even if I had the energy, which I don't. Clearly I need a cabana boy personal assistant paid a living wage and bennies to make me food whilst I debate on the innernets. Woe, I do not has.

What do you have? We can play innernets iron chef, given your sad lack of cabana boy.

Shell peas are ripe when the pods are fat. You want them filled out, but not burstingly fat - the peas are sweeter when they are just-ripe, and get starchier the longer they are on the vine. I find I need to pick every other day to get them at their best.