Week of April 1-7 (belated)

[mrissa]

Three rejections, one...um...thing as yet unspecified.

I noted in an e-mail last night that I am now feeling just better enough to start feeling bad about everything I've missed and am missing. Oh. Um, good.

So yah. Some progress. Less febrile. Yay. Still very shaky. Throat still hurts very much. Have added snozzly nose. Will be trying a shower in a minute or two, even if I have to sit down in it. (It is not a bathtub shower. But I smell so sick, and if I shower I will at least smell like a few hours of sick instead of two days. You would think the snozzly nose would make this more tolerable, but no.)

Look, folks, I'm pretty thoroughly miserable here, so if you could tell me something good, now would be a good time for that sort of behavior.

Comments

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

our twins game will NOT get snowed out! :)

i'm really sorry you're sick. :/

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

Good thing: Amber wiggles her butt--actually her entire body--to music, whenever she sets off one of her toys. It's very cute, and very Jeff-like (have I told you the butt-wiggle in the grocery store story?). I have movies on the camera (of her, not him) and will try to post them to gallery.

Also, when she concentrates, she sticks out her tongue. Remind you of anyone who might perhaps do that when he's playing the organ? She even did that while playing the piano yesterday. I *know* I have a picture of that. Again, will post them when I can.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Err...no...I knew nothing of the Jeffish butt-wiggle. It turns out there are all sorts of things you can go without knowing about your in-laws!

But yes, these are very good things.

[roane.livejournal.com]

A good thing: when your dear friends tell you that you seem happier than you have in a long time--and you've been pretty darn happy before now. :)

Another good thing: We live in a world where mrissas get well. And hopefully quickly!

[loup_noir]

The dogs are shiny clean and shedding like fiends - if fiends shed. They probably do. It would go with fiend-dom.

There are still a couple of meals of homemade chicken soup left and leftover pumpkin curry, too. Mmmmm, leftovers!

The roses are budding, there are two promises of iris blossoms, the bugloss has tiny blue flowers, the huckelberries are thick with pink and white flowers that the bees are enjoying, and we must have twenty hummingbirds hanging out. In the orchards, the pear trees are showy white puffs and the first of the apple trees are blooming.

Best wishes for a speedy recover. You have a raincheck for some fun.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. Continue feeling better.

Oranges exist. So do lemons, limes, and other fun fruit. Pineapples exist as well, which is good because a fruit as fun as the pineapple should not be imaginary. Unless you don't like sour, in which case be glad that apples and berries of all sorts exist. Some of the berries, like raspberries or blackberries, are not actually berries, but we'll let them stand because they are tasty.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Pineapples and I do not get along. It's not the sour. It's the stringy. Most foods I don't like, I don't like because of texture, most often stringiness. But I'm glad there's pineapple juice, in moderation, and I'm glad other people get pineapple.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the stringy is a little less than ideal. I don't like the pineapples I've had in the Midwest; I adore Costa Rican pineapples and sadly am not in Costa Rica. I've never figured out when it's accepted to stop eating a pineapple, either-- how far into the stalky center should one go?

I have the feeling I'm going to butcher a pineapple pretty soon. My mouth will not forgive me even a bit.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I have found a good site for Finnish music, with links to YouTube and websites, which has made me gleeful. There is an awful lot of Goth/Metal pop music in Finland, apparently. It is bouncy and cheery but everyone dresses in psuedo-medieval outfits and gets chased around by scary people. Who knew?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Me and alecaustin. We knew. And we gloried in it, each in our own way. But I'd like the site anyway.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, I might have known! Also my friend plasticsturgeon. Anyway, it's http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf?open

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

For the first time ever V. was taken away from the house by not-a-parent to hang out At Grandma's House. Was she upset? Was she fussy? No, she spent half an hour laughing and laughing at adults putting things on their heads and letting them fall off.

Because you are in Minnesota, you will probably be pleased to know that fancy upscale tuna casserole tastes all wrong to me if it has no cream of mushroom soup. I am weirdly pleased about it myself.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Things On Your Head Falling Off is the height of baby humor. This is why I play well to the single-digit set.

[jenett]

It is not exacltly good (because some of it says disturbing things about the society we live in.) but it's a totally fascinating article (and the later bits of it are reassuring.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

In other good news, it is a gorgeous day outside.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

If one takes the dead leaves off their lavender plant and crushes them in one's hand and sprinkles them in one's unscented pillar candle just as the wax is firming up again, after three tries of this, one gets a lavender candle.

[sensational.livejournal.com]

I am feeling very excited about life again, right now, and it's lovely--I'm falling in love again, I am feeling ambitious, and I feel like I have reasons to get up in the morning.

Also, I have just come home from post-Easter candy shopping and I have mini-eggs.

Spring is coming! We're young and beautiful and interesting. You write lovely things and you're one of my favorite livejournal reads. There are always more conventions to go to.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I do feel confident that Minicon will occur next year, and that I will be there to enjoy it. Yes.

And thanks.

On smelling sick

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

When you are showered, swab your nostrils out gently with a Q-tip. Part of the "sick" smell may be inside your nose. I get really fussy about that myself and find that cleaning out my nose helps a lot.

Re: On smelling sick

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yep, the nose is definitely part of it, but my body is still manufacturing sick smells, sadly.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

EEEEE we're buying a house we're buying a house and it's huge and EEEEEE and now I have to figure out how to get this house cleaned up/repaired and sold, but it's such a cool house and EEEEEE.

Is that good enough?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

For you, it sure sounds good enough!

For me, moving house is one of the least favorite things ever, but I recognize that other people can delight in it, and I'm glad when they do.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

Oh, the moving part will probably suck, but the having new house that's twice the size of our current house, that's good. *grin*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It is good to recognize your family doom when you see it. Probably I say this because I have read too many sagas, but still and all, it looks true from here.

Cheering thoughts.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

There is an edition of Chapman's Homer with Keats's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" as the back cover blurb.

The Dutch for Prologue is "Proloog".

If you eat a pound of cherries, you will not weigh a pound more because you didn't eat the paper bag.

At least you got to go to some of Minicon.

When I said that I had bought nine lemons and four tangerines for a dollar, rysmiel thought this was the beginning of a math problem. Also, you can freeze lemons if you slice them and put waxed paper between the slices and then put the whole lot in a zip-lock. I didn't know that.

Neutrinos have mass!

Even though he died hundreds of years ago, there is always going to be more Bach.

Rhyme to use when lifting small children:

Apep ("Up-up") was a snake god.
Apep wasn't nice.
Apep used to frighten people --
Not just once or twice
But every time he went to town
The people they would say:
"There's Apep. He's a snake god."
And then they'd run away.

Re: Cheering thoughts.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You are extremely full of cheerful things!

Also I do not eat cherry pits mostly. So that probably counts with the paper bag.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

In four and a half months, I will not have to deal with my stressful workplace anymore and the knowledge of that makes it easier to deal now. Also, despite the snow and cold, there are still a few crocuses blooming. Hope you feel all better very soon!

[mkille.livejournal.com]

There is a hanging rock art installation in my work library.

[ckd]

The weather in Cambridge was nice today, and I got a chance to go get lunch from the food trucks because I was heading over to the other building (which, unlike the one my office is in, has no cafeteria).

On the way back to my office, I saw the Kendall Square Turkey. Yes, there's a semi-famous wild turkey hanging around, and today he was sunning himself in the reflections from someone's office window.

Also, I am still both amused and croggled by the Alanis Morissette cover of "My Humps".