right, no way to link to the actual clip, it is behind the compass firewall on pbs. anyway my local NPR station had an interview with Margaret Biser today (this piece [link] and it reminded me of that clip.

Grr. Thought I was feeling better, but when I got off the couch to go walk down the street to the store, realized while I'm not as dizzy as yesterday I'm still a little weirdly out of it. Like, I feel as though if I move my eyes, or my head, my brain/vestibular system is a beat behind? It's weird.

Forgot to mention I had a humdinger of a nightmare last night. It seemed to have a cohesive narrative, about a rural family whose parents were into the occult, managed to obtain a few pages from a copy of the Necronomicon, then killed themselves and came back wrong as puppets/manifestations for creepy forces from outside that menaced their kids. My viewpoint bounced from that of the kids themselves to a neighbor trying to help them and being terrorized by the goings-on himself. The visuals were really unusually vivid, would have put Carpenter or Del Toro to shame. (I remember the dad glowing from within like a blue light inside a melting ice sculpture, and the mom sort of tearing apart into smoke/tentacles that chased after one of the kids through the farmhouse.) It would have been a really cool horror movie to watch if I hadn't been experiencing everything firsthand.

Blargh. Had a touch of food poisoning last night, thought it was over and done with, and discovered I was wrong ten minutes ago, before I left for my last physical therapy session.

Medical ~ma to Matt's dad and lisah's uncle! And meara and Dana, too.

I'm putting this here so I can be accountable (but I don't want to do it quite as publicly as Facebook) -- I made noises about quitting smoking previously, and I ordered the Alan Carr book about how to do it, but I am going to seriously undertake this in the next few months, including a prescription for Chantix, if needed. I think I'm developing chronic bronchitis, and guess where that comes from unless you're a fragile 19th century fictional heroine?

So. Wish me strength?

Good luck, Amy! Avoiding chronic bronchitis is a worthy goal.

ION, I just ordered a fun looking bag from Betabrand, but am chagrined to realize I won't get it until March, and that only if sufficient other people order it... [link]

Well, in March I may get a nice surprise, of either a new bag, or cash back.

Hurricane Jose, which had been trundling up to New England, is making another loop and appears to be planning to come ashore as a tropical storm or depression in New Jersey. Unless it loops around again.

You can do it, Amy.

Good luck, Amy!

I hate this edge-of-Jose weather we're having, although I know it's nothing bad. But cloudy for two days, a little windy, SUPER humid, and raining on and off with temps in the 60s is not my favorite.

Why did my meeting at the end of the day turn into discussing Hamilton? Work-related reasons, actually, but here was the funny story: Someone's 10-year-old daughter was very tentative about asking what one of the words meant, because she thought it must be a Bad Word. Which one? Scotsman. Ha!!!

Wish me strength?

Strength~ma. I used Chantix when I decided to quit smoking about 5 years ago now, and I haven't relapsed yet. You can email me if you want to chat about it.

I'm exhausted and I'm super behind on my inbox because I'm mostly having a lot of meetings while I'm in NYC. The meetings have been productive, but now I am catastrophically behind on everything else.