Medical Update

Colonoscopy revealed an inflammation, which doctor says is better than the CT scan back in November. He gave me an anti-inflammatory to take instead of the anti-spasmodic, which wasn't doing a damned thing. Tissue samples were taken for testing, and I ... uh, need to collect other samples for testing, so until all those test results are in, the jury is still out, but today was the best I felt in over a week, and my brain was actually functioning, which was a nice change of pace. The last few days, due to dehydration due to the colitis and the prep for the colonoscopy, I felt I was thinking in slow motion. I managed to stay awake for most of it, watching on the monitor, which is always a bit trippy, but I guess I conked out near the end, because I don't know how I ended up back in the little recovery room. Maybe next time, I'll stay awake the entire time. This is my third colonoscopy -- and everyone over 50 should have at least one, because colon cancer is very treatable if found early as it's slow growing, but I digress -- and each time, I seem to stay awake longer.

So, I managed to see the actual inauguration on TV, which was wonderful. Our new president (I like saying that), gave a good speech, full of hope, yet reminding people there will be tough times ahead and we all need to do our part). Seeing the footage of all those people at the Mall in Washington DC, and in locations throughout NYC, and listening to interviews with people tearing up and saying they never thought they'd see this day was extremely moving. For one day, we came together as a nation. I hope that feeling lasts, even as reality sets in that our problems won't be fixed overnight.

Feeling: okay, sorta

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The Day After Monday

Yeah, coming up with titles is proving a chore this week. Continued my once a week gym session. I was really tired today, but I'm glad I got him my 40 minutes on the treadmill. Still haven't picked a gym book, but the one I'm reading on my commute, Red Gold by Alan Furst, is working nicely for treadmill duty.

I'm watching David Letterman and he's going on and on about still-for-the-moment Gov. Spitzer. Dave's new favorite phrase seems to be "banging whores." Now if that doesn't roll trippingly off the tongue, I don't know what will. And I wish Spitzer would stop playing legal games and just resign already so we can all move on. Which would put the lt. gov, David Patterson, in office, giving us a black governor who will also be the first blind governor.

It's hard to find fun things to blog about when the news is so in your face.

Feeling:

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A Monday Among Mondays

So, NY's governor is caught in a prostitution scandal. I was going to save this for my more political blog, but really, this is too juicy to not mention here, my main blog with more readers (I think). Aside from feeling betrayed by Spitzer, whom I voted for, I'm wondering about the chutzpah of a man who spent most of his career going after the criminal and unethical. He's been called "Mr. Clean." So for him to think possibly that he could get away with this just galls. And what? He couldn't find a mistress like other politicians? Sheesh. I'm pretty cynical when it comes to politics, but this stunned and disappointed me.

The BBC presents their Top 25 Putdowns. Link from Neatorama. My favorites:

• Arnold Rimmer - Red Dwarf. "Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence."
• Edmund Blackadder - Blackadder II. To Lord Percy: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?"

and of course,

• Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm. "Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate."

Still not feeling great, but the constant need to blow my nose has ceased. I'm counting my blessings.

Feeling:

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South Park Me?

I've been seeing this on a lot of blogs, so I had to try it. I suppose my inability to figure out how to save it with the link rather than just doing a screen cap is because I have the wrong version of Flash. Whatever. I don't actually watch "South Park." I just wanted to see what I'd look like as a character. Kinda cute, huh?

So Yasser Arafat is dead. The announcement seemed anticlimatic given his coma had been deepening for days now. Now we'll see how the mid-East will react, but I doubt it will be good. As if this year hasn't had enough turmoil and horrors.

Ashcroft's resignation was much more of a surprise. I thought he'd have to be pried from that job kicking and screaming after the NEXT election.

Apparently, the rating thing is getting competitive and weird on Blog Explosion. I pulled Occasional Blog from my BE blogs after it got a rating of one. Raters were anonymous, then named, now anonymous again, but that didn't matter. I couldn't stand seeing that "1." My other 3 blogs listed on BE have respectable average ratings, including this one, but that "1" galled me. So now I see in BE's tagboard comments folks complaining that some people are going around giving out "1" ratings as some sort of prank. BE is a lot of fun, albeit very addicting, but it just figures some uh, how can I put this delicately -- idiots -- need to be childish about things.

I haven't had much energy this week. I feel so blah. I hope things improve tomorrow -- a federal holiday so I don't have to work, though hubby does -- so I can get some writing done. Today, after I got my teeth cleaned, I came home and vegged, mostly surfing on BE. Gotta love those mystery credits.