On this day, July 20th 1969, man first set foot on another world.
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“However bad life is, what’s important is to make something interesting out of it. And that has a lot to do with the physical world, with looking at stuff, snow and light and the smell of your screen door and whatever constitutes your phenomenal existence from moment to moment. How consoling—that this stuff goes on and that you can keep thinking about it and making that into something on the page.”
— Anne Carson explains an idea that she and Alice Munro have in common (attachment to the physical world and the details in life), from The Art of Poetry No. 88, Paris Review (via podencos)
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it's time for the 72-hour after action report!
this was a deeply Weird experience. unlike other times wherein I've gotten vaccines and/or boosters, the only thing that happened in the first twelve hours was that my arms hurt and I was very tired. they hurt a LOT, but by the twelve hour mark and my second bedtime, I genuinely thought I'd gotten off basically scott-free from a vaccine reaction.
and then I hit 1 am, and the 15 hour mark.
I woke up freezing, feverish, desperately thirsty and too weak to reach for the water bottle on my bedside table. my entire body felt bruised, and I was wracked with chills. I didn't have the strength to reach for my water or my phone for four excruciating hours. I couldn't get out of bed for three hours after that.
I have no idea why it took so long for my immune system to notice what I'd done to it. I'm blaming my immunosuppressant.
I ate ibuprofen like skittles on saturday, but any time it started to wear off the fever and the body aches revved up again.
yesterday, I was able to go to the store to buy juice, but it flattened me.
it's monday now. I'm still running an intermittent low-grade fever, I'm still tired and my bones still hurt, but that's just business as usual with an autoimmune disease. unless I have a dramatic relapse, I'll be going back to work tonight.
now. would I recommend anyone else do this?
no. absolutely not. maybe it'd be less unpleasant for someone without immune system issues (or a puppy, I can't pretend Nola's insistence on stepping on all my tender spots wasn't a contributing factor), but this experience genuinely sucked.
did I learn anything from this experience?
NOPE.
I have a bad time with vaccines, no matter how many I get at a time, and even tho my brain and memory got cooked by the aforementioned autoimmune disease, this is nowhere near the most painful thing I remember doing to myself.
I will probably end up doing this to myself again.
never let it said I'm not an overachiever
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I could be your ibuprofriend :).....or your advillain >:)
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On This Day In History
March 23rd, 2021: A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days.
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23 march 2021. never forget.
[aerial from the international space station] [map]
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mistake
bad
noo
never let it said I'm not an overachiever
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MISTAKES
WERE MADE
never let it said I'm not an overachiever
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people vaguely saying 'the horrors' as shorthand for 'life problems, don't worry about it' in conversations where the problems are not going to be delved into has got to be one of my favorite new Ways Of Speaking that has emerged. like it's polite and vague and succinct enough for impersonal conversation but also extremely honest. it's very funny. The Horrors. we all know of them.
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5 year anniversary of the miette post \o/
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This Sunday afternoon I was running for a tram and there was a knock at the door
I live in a city where you don't use the front door so thought "I'm already on my way out, I'll see who it is when I get round the front" (there's too much stuff in the way to even open the front door)
So I get to the front door and
... OK yeah I was a bit surprised.
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