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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
How awesome does a cake have to be in order to get banned from a cake show?
Verminous Dickens cake banned from Melbourne cake show
"Great Expectations, the Miss Havisham Cake," a remarkable, vermin-infested entry from the Hotham Street Ladies art collective was excluded from the Melbourne Cake Show on grounds of "bad taste." Boo!
Damn. I do not have ita- levels of headache, but I feel like someone has bopped me over the face with a broomstick, and I am nauseated. I think it is because I forgot to take my celexa this weekend, and have just now taken it, but man I feel vile.
Yes, Perkins, be less stupid than me and don't dial in to work. Dammit. But I have a theoretical go live today that I must be braced for.
And checking my emails means my boss doesn't know I'm not at the office today, being that he's not going to be in, and I called in sick to his phone
Should we not be subtle about this kind of thing?
Yes. Just be thankful you don't have my boss, who told more than one colleague that I threatened to leave if I didn't get promoted or a raise (not exactly what I said) and then told me that I wasn't being professionally savvy.
I love this series of tweets:
(However, I hope never to be writing a series like that myself!)
Sophia, Celexa isn't as bad as Paxil for screwing you up if you suddenly change dosage, but it certainly gives me some tsuris for missed pills.
ita, have you tried botox for migraines? I seem to remember you have, but I'm not sure so I'm posting this:
Botox For Migranes: FDA Approves Botox For Migraine Headaches
I just turned on the tv and a Scooby Doo movie was on, because I had taped Venture Brothers last night. James Hong was definitely reprising a version of his role from Big Trouble in Little China. Kids these days!
A list for Buffistas: Literature's Ten Best Dressed Authors
FWIW, tommy, I think at this point it's easier for ita to list the migraine treatments she hasn't used.
I recently finished reading Melanie Thernstrom's The Pain Chronicles which delves into the conundrum of chronic pain and why it resists modern medicine so well.
She describes ketamine procedures, which basically puts you into a coma for several days. The idea is, sort of like ECT, it interupts/resets the pain circuits. It's a dangerous procedure, and it's not been proved to be effective for many, to boot.
There's some intriguing work being done with fMRI, that lets pain patients watch a scan of their own brain and concentrate on raising/lowering pain at will, which the researchers theorize trains the brain into rerouting inappropriate pain circuits.
It's not a self-help book, but one that deals with the history and theory and applied science of pain -- I highly recommend it.