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SQL Server has been bent to my will.

ION, this is very freaky:

Scientists Work To Unravel Mystery Behind Woman Who Doesn’t Grow | Singularity Hub

Twenty year old Brooke Greenberg hasn’t grown since age five. For the last 15 years mystified doctors have been unable to explain the cause for Brooke’s disorder that has kept her aging in check. At age twenty, she maintains the physical and mental appearance of a toddler.

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As far as Shadt knows Brooke is the only person in world with this condition. Its singular rareness means it doesn’t even have an official name. Doctors have taken to calling it Syndrome X.

Brooke’s early life was complicated with a number of medical emergencies. Before reaching six she had undergone several surgeries for seven perforated stomach ulcers. She had also suffered a brain seizure which had caused a stroke, but the stroke had no lasting effects. At four years of age she fell into a coma for 14 days. The doctors identified a brain tumor, but by the time she’d woken up the tumor had disappeared. There’s a sense that, despite her arrested maturation, she has an uncanny ability to overcome other medical complications. It’s hoped that this is real and not just a coincidence, and is in fact more evidence that elucidating the genetics underlying her disease may help others overcome their diseases as well.

It's natural, donchya know!

So is lye. And that'll dissolve a corpse. Which could be useful but I just want a sweetener that doesn't make my gut burn like a fiery sun. Which is what stevia does. Lye probably would too. But that's not my division.

hey, they fixed my computer! Yay, so I'm back at my regular desk, which is nice.

Being at someone else's desk was kind of like spending too long in a hotel: it was interesting and fun at first, but eventually just became uncomfortable. I wanted MY SPACE. (Also, one of my neighbors there didn't like me to talk on the phone. Bah.)

Quick, someone forcefully remind me that no matter how tempting and delicious extra coffee sounds right now, I will REGRET IT tonight because I have to go to bed early. (Morning meetings tomorrow, bah.)

NO COFFEE!! herbal tea or water!!

Mmm, extra coffee.

What? I'm helping!

Okay, so I need extra coffee because I just had a nap, but Jilli mayn't have extra coffee. <not helping>

So I have now had two days in a row in which my dreams were situated in my childhood house. I miss that house. If I'm ever a rock star, I'm totally buying that house (in economically depressed former steeltown Ohio). It was passive solar design from the seventies, probably, but it was a great house. I'd have to put a woodstove insert in the fireplace, but other than that... Ok, it's probably not the actual house of my idyllic childhood memories. But it was pretty great.

NO COFFEE!!

siiiiiigh Okay.

herbal tea or water!!

Green tea, maybe? And lots of water. I need to bring in some little bottles of bitters so I can flavor my fizzy water at work.

Part of why I want more coffee (or any caffeine, really) is because it's Quarterly Goal Writing Time at work, an activity I despise.

Not only do I have True Citrus in my work drawer, there are also random sachets in my purse. The amount of sugar I drink had dropped radically--I'm wondering if I should make a move to unsweetened soy milk, but enh. Soy milk is not tasty enough for all that.

In Jamaica, I left the house twice without my tea and travel mug with steeping basket. And I regretted it both times. At home we have lots of tasty moderate to un-sweetened things to drink. But getting fresh fruit juice at random (even nice) restaurants in Kingston--I bat zero. With the travel mug I could keep tea hot for four or five hours, so very pleasant.

Okay, I should totes go have lunch.