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I had a nerve conductivity test when I was recovering from a pulled scapular accessory nerve post-surgery. I completely forgot about it until you mentioned it. It's a diagnostic test they can use to check for muscle and nerve damage.

Since you have a no-Google policy I'll spoiler my experience, just in case.



Good luck, LW! Let me know how it goes. And I'm glad Molly's starting to come around. Strawberries are pretty magical.

Hey, thanks!

My no Google policy is because every symptom, no matter how benign, always ends up being something that will have you on death's door. It actually started because my mom has a joke that if I look up side-effects, I'll end up with all of them. So she started reading them, and then if I have any, I tell her, and she tells me if I should worry.

In my defense, after we started this, I took an antidepressant and said that my jaw was locking. Everybody thought I was loony tunes nutso, but, sure enough, there is was in the tiny print under "rarely observed."

At a y rate, though I am not a hypochondriac, I am highly suggestible.

Yay! Good for you!

Proofs! Shiny, shiny pre-print proofs!

I bought a swirly looking zero plug. I'm having trouble with using tapers to go up to zero right now so I am forking PUMPED.

That's awesome! You're lucky to have a great supervisor, I really disliked mine (and she disliked me even more)- but on the plus side, that made it even more exciting when I was finished with the whole thing. I used to know a bunch of academics on your field when I was doing my Grad Dip (in gender and development), but that was in Adelaide and a few years ago now so probably not super helpful.

The best thing about my day- on Friday mornings I do volunteer work with an aid organisation, and their office happens to be above a really nice cafe where the baristas actually know how to prepare soy milk well. It's so good that I stopped buying coffee near my work on other days because it just tasted horrible in comparison. So getting my weekly coffee there is always the best part of my day.

On Tuesday night I saw that there was $250 worth of fraudulent charges on my checking account, and I just filled out the dispute form yesterday, and I have all the money back already even though they told me it would be 4-7 days!

Last night was the party to welcome new students and there was a lot of free booze. While stumbling home, I decided to sit under a tree to wait for some people I outran (I dunno why they're such slowpokes) and then I saw a kitty. I attracted it with a stick and played with it for a while, and then it sat on my lap for a few minutes. It was so cute.

A co-worker just gave me a container of homemade salsa from ingredients from his garden!

The sound of my new washing machine. Pure sexy.

So at 6am I woke up, had a hard time getting back to sleep so I turned on The Supremes on repeat and fell asleep after a bit. Then at 9:15ish I woke up to the buzz of a text message and The Supremes were singing away at me and the text was something super sweet from my crush. Best way to start the day, ever.

the old people in this city are delightful.
over the past two days, i have seen the following:
-old man riding a bicycle
-old man dressed like a teenager (black hoodie with grey stripes on the sleeves and some violent-looking brand logo on the front and black)
-a group of seniors, 99% of whom had walkers, making their way across the parking lot towards a cafe; they looked so much like a zombie hoard, it was adorable.

My two supervisors took me out to tea and gave me tons of academic advice and gave me a really sweet card and a couple of awesome gifts. I want to cry, can I cry now? Happy cry, though.

Getting to spend time with a good friend who's been traveling and who I missed a lot.

Also dance party in my living room this evening.

MY FRIEND JOCELYN IS HERE AND I MISSED HER SO MUCH OMG

Awesome supervisors are the best ever! That sounds lovely.

I applied at a fabric store, and the owner wants me to come over for a talk! If I would get this job, everyone is probably going to call me crazy. fork 'em. Aaand the store basically sells like pretty cottons and jerseys, no silks, no wool!

Good luck!!

This hasn't happened yet, but 11:35 tonight... NEW forking SEASON OF SNL! fork YEAH

I visited a new (to me) organic store and found all this new stuff to try!


I've tested about half of it already, haha!

That's a vegan nail polish in the middle, btw.

Liking the Jay Pharoh Obama better than the Fred Armisen Obama!

biked ~110mi on a fixie and felt pretty great with a superfuckingawesome group of dudes, all while raising money for animal sanctuaries. so so good.

Riding on the tea cups at the county fair with my kid. We just laughed and laughed and laughed and I almost cried because I love him so forking much.

I liked it too! I thought there was a lot more personality in this version.

The best thing about today is it's my BIRTHDAY, and I'm off to make food and cake!

Is there anything that smells better than the pelt of a cat who's been napping in the sun ? I don't think so.