Oh, my god, Amy, I can't even imagine.

Also, I found out today that my crow's feet are the product of genuine smiling and not fake smiling.

I do not understand this. I should be less wrinkly.

The moral of the story is that misery is beauty.

Have we all seen the video of two Cleverbots having a conversation? If this isn't the best thing on the internet today, I don't know what is:

Oh my God, that is amazing.

Oh, my god, Amy, I can't even imagine.

Right? I can see not wanting to spend the time left arguing, and I'm sure he would have wanted her to undergo treatment, but wow.

I just went up the ten flights of stairs to punish myself for not having gone down them on my way out for lunch.

FUCK THAT NOISE. I'm so not ready for that. I may never be.

Oh my God, Amy, the pain and rage he must be going through. That poor man. And I'm sure his wife had managed to convince herself that this was the best way, for whatever completely unreasonable reason.

But there's something odd about forgoing medicine for "natural" remedies.

Even my super-evangelical aunt doesn't kid herself for a second about how she survived her bout with cancer (non-Hodgkin's, stage 4) -- she's convinced it was a God-sent miracle, but she's also pretty damn convinced that the cancer team at Stanford and all their expertise and science and fancy poisons (and even stem cells) were a seriously huge part of the miracle, and she would go very squinty-eyed at anyone who suggested otherwise.

Somebody's Haunted Dollhouse - well, a dollhouse whose theme is Haunted House. Don't know that it is actually haunted.

ETA - links there are bad but you can see the pictures here.

then there are the people who hate "BigPharma" because they are only about profit and money and then turn around and spend tons of money on fake treatments.

They ARE poison. No scare quotes necessary.

Those weren't scare quotes. Those were quoting the people involved. Poor, overworked quote marks.

I do believe the day will come when we look back and say, "Can you believe we used to treat cancer by giving people poison and hoping it killed the cancer before it killed the patient?" However, that day is not here, and just because it's an imperfect system does not mean that the answer is to turn yourself over to a Mexican clinic that prescribes juiced raw carrots and liver.

Timelies all!

Painted my fingernails for the first time in a long while. It started to chip pretty quickly.(should have expected that with cheap polish.) Have touched up the polish and added top coat. Hope that helps.