Phospho-Soda

I’ll get the depressing stuff over with first. Got a call from the Specialist’s office yesterday afternoon – they want to go ahead and do a bone marrow biopsy. It’s just one of those “we want to be sure” things, but there are certain blood disorders (I love a good euphemism) that could produce the…

A housekeeping note: I’ve now added links to my index page for all my song paradies. So, for those of you with particularly masochistic tendencies, you should find my little ditties easy to locate and enjoy again and again and again. For those of you with better evolved self-preservation behaviors, you now have a list…

The last 24 hours have been pretty quiet. The Professor starts back to teaching in earnest this week. He had his first Monday night class last night, which meant last night was the first evening I hit the gym without him. It’s easier in a way, since I don’t have him hopping over to check…

I’m sitting here at Big Name Book Store behind the charity gift wrap table. I am by myself. That’s pretty nearly literal, as the store is nearly devoid of customers. At least half of the non-employees who are here are located in the café drinking stuff out of tall white paper cups with sippy lids…

I’m off-center today. I seem to have come down with a temporary case of ADD, and can’t settle in on any one project on my desk for longer than half an hour. I received totally undeserved praise on one job that is now a full month overdue … the guy who assigned it to me…

Lately I’ve been having a little trouble with my right hip. In the face of everything else that’s going on, I deemed this to be less than important. There are days when the hip acts up, maybe once or twice a month. On those days I need to watch how I place my feet. If…