So I just went and said wah-wah-wah to my coworkers, and one of them gave me peppermint tea, in a real mug! This is especially good since I just learned on Fresh Air last week that the only thing that actually shortens the length of a cold is sympathy!

I hope for juicy resolution.

I'm not sure what that means in this context, but it sounds good.

Hey, Perkins!!!!

much sympathy to Jesse.

NOW is the time when we LUNCH!

I really am the whiniest sick person ever. I'm not even all that sick! I'm just always surprised when anything goes wrong with me, physically.

HI PERKINS HI!!!

Potassium Chlorate + A Red Gummy Bear

In semi-related news, conversation hearts burn quite pleasingly if not as dramatically. I recommend it as a cathartic Valentine's Day activity.

THE EXPERIENCE OF A UNIFIED MIND AND THE POSSIBILITY OF AN EVERLASTING SOUL ARE CONNECTED. AND THERE IS SCANT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE EXISTENCE OF EITHER.

I find this kind of thing interesting... there are lots of stories about transplant recipients who have cravings, dreams, and/or vocab changes that can be traced back to the donor. Kind of freaky, kind of cool.

Cravings I can see, as there's now a physical part of that other person inside the recipient and you'd expect maybe the interaction with foreign genetics to change tastes and the like. But purely mental changes when it's not brain tissue at issue is pretty freaky.

I love my PCP doctor now, too. I called her this morning to have her write up my Letter of Support and put it in my file, and she did it within three hours after my phone call! Now the liaison can get the insurance approval procedure started.

Bought another writing book, this one specifically on sentence structure. Her chapter on punctuation was essentially "Semi-colons have a use in sentences, especially with lists, but I think they're ugly and think that a sentence should be split into two instead of being joined with a semi-colon. To me, using a semi-colon is just showing off that you know how to use that particular punctuation mark and that you don't care about the esthetics of a sentence and being as clear as possible to the reader." She's a big fan of short sentences.

I thought of my Buffistas and how you would make her cry.

There is a NYT op-ed that is making me seethe today. I can't imagine what Lily Ledbetter must be feeling.

Which one, Sparky? I could do with a good seething.

"Semi-colons have a use in sentences, especially with lists, but I think they're ugly and think that a sentence should be split into two instead of being joined with a semi-colon. To me, using a semi-colon is just showing off that you know how to use that particular punctuation mark and that you don't care about the esthetics of a sentence and being as clear as possible to the reader."

Now I want to send her an email with as many semi-colons as possible.