Sleepless in Spokane

I called my doctor today. She gave me 3 weeks worth of Zyprexa, which she promised would slow down my mind and let me sleep. When I looked it up, the references said it’s used to treat mixed state and acute mania. I kinda suspected that’s where I’m at, but I wish she would have [...]

Upgrading

One good thing about not sleeping is the amount of things I can get done, including things I usually stress over and avoid. Upgrading WordPress is like that. I’ve been test driving the 2.5 release candidates on my shadow site for a couple of weeks with no problems, so when the official stable release came [...]

Top Ten Signs You Need To Call Your Doctor

20 hours of sleep in the last 8 days, and still having plenty of energy Nightmares when you do manage to pass out Sleeping pills don’t really make you sleep, they just lock you into passed out nightmares you can’t wake from, so you don’t take them Feeling the overwhelming urge to get pierced. Anywhere. [...]

Words matter

Jeff Hess at Have Coffee Will Write posted something last night that touched me greatly and got me thinking. In a reference to a monk attempting self-immolation, he had this to say, “Was it frustration, anger or a brain illness? Is it just that not everyone has the will of the Buddha?” Not “mental illness,” [...]

Status report

First, I want to apologize to everyone for not posting or answering comments this week. I just haven’t been able to summon up the energy to write. The short version is that I haven’t been sleeping, which messes me up big time and threatens to make me cycle, but with the help of drugs I’ve [...]

And he was even a Republican

If Ann Coulter had liveblogged the Gettysburg Address: Old Abe is approaching the podium, looking even more like a badly-dressed and ill-proportioned scarecrow suffering from a depressive disorder than he usually does. I mean, if you’re going to be an empty suit, couldn’t you at least find a suit that fits? And as usual, he’s [...]

Headline of the week

KNBC Los Angeles: Judge Wants Proper Service In Actor’s Penis, Mousetrap Lawsuit The service in question is the delivery of notice of a lawsuit by a man who, as a radio show promotion with a supposed promise of a $10 million reward, put his penis in a mousetrap. He claims to be surprised that it [...]

Yes, it’s a vampire

From Yahoo! Answers: My girlfriend hasn’t had period since she got pregnant? ok im kinda worried an all. my g/f hasn’t had her period she(sic) she got pregnant. do you think the baby is drinkin the blood??? shes 6 months pregnant. Oh. My. God. I can only hope this is a troll question. Otherwise this [...]

Reimagining myself

March has been a whirlwind. Just 3 weeks ago I decided to look into going back to school; two weeks ago I found out it was possible. One week ago I confirmed everything by phone, turned in my application and verbally signed up for classes. By the middle of next week I should have my [...]

Bracket busting on broadband

No access to a tv during March Madness? No problem. You can now watch every game live on your computer. During the day I don’t let myself turn on the tv or else I’d never get anything done, but this I can run in the background and sneak peeks as needed. I assume they must [...]

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