disheveled

a disheveled library-gal comes clean

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Blinded

I am blinded by a 2 day headache. Oh - btw - before I begin - Seattle was just incredible. I wish I had more time to explore the city. But from what I saw & did, that place rocks.

So back to my head. I think its been 2 days -- no, maybe its been 3. I have this headache that wont go away. It teases me -- it gets duller, lighter, and I think its lifting, and then like some kind of evil torture device cranking my head tighter, it's back. And its not a migraine. I've had those, but this isn't it. This is a sharp stabbing pain like a railroad tie right between my eyes. But its not centered -- it's kinda like closer to my right eye than my left, which is pissing me off, because I'm a type A kinda girl who likes things Just So, so if this pain could just move a little to the left it'd been symmetrically in line with my head and I'd breathe easier -- but it's hawking my right eye and making me have to close my one eye a bunch and hold my forehead like a delicate china cup.

I'm seriously considering seeing the doc on this one. If I finish off my bottle of Advil and its still hurting, then maybe I'll give it a whirl.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Gone West

Well, the Jersey Girl has left the state -- Not for good, just for a few days. I'm in Seattle at a training for a library project I'm working on for the Spring.

What a great city! I'm having an awesome time.

Coffee Coffee Coffee... Its everywhere.

I had debated over and over again about bringing a laptop with me on this trip -- I was worried about the whole lugging it hither and yon thing. So I left it home, and I have found a nice litte corner spot with free computer right here at the hotel -- Fabulous. I tell ya, this girl hates to schlep. I'd take the hotel lobby pc any day of the week over schlepping around a heavy old laptop, with the 5 lb. cushy bag to protect its delicate self. I was not amazed, however, to see So Many people in the airport and airplane clicking away on their own bulky machines. What a world. The people in the plane just yabbering away on their cell phones and clicking away on their computers was unreal. No one had a conversation with the person right next to them! When the pilot came on and told people they had to shut off their phones, there was a very distinct electronic hum all around, and you could tell people were getting cranky to have to be incommunicado for the duration of the fight.

So -- I'm off for more coffee!

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Another year older

Song I love to hear on my birthday: This is the day by The The. I highly recommend you take a listen to it if you've never heard it. The lyrics are simple, and can really be used for any kind of a changing day -- a birthday, a wedding, a new job, new home, new anything -- it just works. Brilliant. Matt Johnson rules lyrically:

Well you didn't wake up this morning/ 'cause you didnt go to bed
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red
The calendar on your wall/ is ticking the days off
You've been reading some old letters/ You smile and think how much you've changed
All the money in the world/ couldn't buy back those days

You pull back the curtain
And the sun burns into your eyes
You watch a plane flying
Across a clear blue sky

This is the day
Your life will surely change
This is the day
When things fall into place

You could've done anything/ If you'd wanted
And all your friends and family/ Think that you're lucky
But the side of you they'll never see/ Is when you're left alone with the memories
That hold your life/ Together like glue

This is the day
Your life will surely change
This is the day
When things fall into place

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

toe-tally annoying

Do you remember that old children's story about the big lion who had a thorn in his paw, and the little mouse came and pulled it out for him? Maybe it was an Aesop's fable, or some such? Well, this big huge lion, king of the jungle, feared by all, was taken down by this annoying thorn in his tender foot. Amazing but true (well, fictional, but still...) stories of the animal kingdom!

Well, I feel like that big mangy lion. I have a sore toe, and for the life of me, I can't seem to concentrate too long on anything, because my TOE is killing me!

When I was 10 years old I was sent to sleep-away camp in the middle of Nowheresville PA, where I refused for my 2 month stint to wear flip flops in the shower. Needless to say, I have battled with plantar warts ever since.

At one time I had 6, then I had none, then years passed, and now for the last year or so, I've had 3. And since the last time me & the warts did battle nothing worked except leaving them the heck alone, I've done pretty much nothing to get rid of them. Which, I can see now, is a mistake. Big Mistake.

Now something has got a-hold of the 2nd toe on my left foot UnderNeath My Toe Nail. Yes, it is Under-Neath my nail! I think its a wart. I'm actually not quite sure. But from the tiny bit of it thats popped out and covered the top of my toe, I'd say it was a wart gone awry.

I've poked it, prodded it, stabbed it with my nail scissor, and yet it remains impenetrable. It doesn't hurt. Most of the time. But sometimes, just when I think I've forgotten about it -- YEEOUCHH!

So- sensibility says -- Get it looked at. Go to the doctor. But, well, the thing is, 1.) I hate foot doctors. My apologies to all you podiatrists out there, but so far, you've all disappointed me; 2.) I have a feeling the doctor will take off my toe nail to get a good look at this thing, and I kinda like my toe nail and am terrified of not having it there anymore; and 3.) (which is the stupidest reason, but compared to 1 & 2, how dumb can it be?) I'm going on a business trip in 2 weeks, and now is not the time to do nail excavating -- I'm gonna need my feet for the trip!

So meanwhile, here I am, an all powerful, energetic, bubbly, work-a-holic, woman of the new millennium, completely frazzled by a frickin piece of crud pushing on the innerside of my nail! How completely ridiculous!