Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

I joined Twitter ages ago, but it seemed like yet another silly distraction. Well, it IS another silly distraction, but until recently, I couldn’t see the use in actively participating. That is, until my trip to NYC last month. I found out that my friend Sooz and I had both been in NYC at the same time. She said, "I twittered it!" The part that turned me off was having my phone beep all the time. Turns out you can receive twitters any way you want them: online, on IM, in email, or on your cell phone. It was just catching on while I was in Boston, but only my techiest friends were signing up (me included, of course). Those who headed out to SXSW of course got hooked. Given my daily life, I never did. Lately, my techier friends in Raleigh have been signing up, and since I’d had that missed connection with Sooz, I’ve jumped on board. You’ll see my twitters in the right sidebar here and on my Twitter page. I’ll stay public as long as I can’t see any good reason not to.

I’m living in a land of Chloraseptic. My health hasn’t been great since Friday. I woke up feeling kind of puny, but I still went to the gym, and UGH, it all felt more difficult than it should have. That night, I woke up in a sweat and had a HORRIBLE experience which I won’t go into, because I’m a nice person who has learned that some things really are TMI. I will share that in order to break the fever, I had to slide into a bath of cold water. After that, I felt absolutely fine. Not sure if it was MSG or food poisoning or what… but it was bad. Very bad. Saturday was feeling cranky and low in energy. Then yesterday, I woke up with a raw throat and a regular old cold. Still have it today.

The good news is that my friend Jeff has loaned me the full series of the Joss Whedon television series, Firefly in order to prepare for a screening of the movie Serenity. It’s much more sci-fi than I would have chosen on my own, but I am really enjoying it, and now that I’ve gotten through enough of the exposition, the humor is starting to kick in. That always helps me. I’m also quite pleased about the inclusion of Alan Tudyk, who I’ve noticed for years. His character is great. He’s the competent pilot of the ship (very Millenium Falcony, if you ask me) who is married to the badass warrior woman, Zoe. I particularly enjoyed his initial scene in the series, where he is playing with plastic toy dinosaurs while sitting in the cockpit. He’s making the dinosaurs fight and says, “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!” I guess I like sillies, and for the first few hours of this series, these are few and far between.

There’s lots more to say about life, television, and illness, but I wanted to launch the new (and probably dynamic) design of the blog with words rather than more pictures. I’m mostly expressing myself visually these days, and I don’t want anyone to worry I’ve gone mute (as if you’d think something like that!).

I have learned (or confirmed) several things this morning:

• Baking banana bread is more complex a task than I was ready for this morning
• Whole Foods does not sell Baking Soda
• Neither does Eckerd’s Drug Store
• The Jack Daniels convenience store does sell eggs
• I am the most ADD person alive
• My mother is a good listener (except when Dad is talking to her in the background)
• Blogging about how difficult organic herb gardening is going to be in North Carolina is not the best use of my time