meathead
I have done my good deed for the day by helping a childhood friend comprehend that when her husband asks for an espresso maker "like all the Italians have," this is probably an acheivable and reasonable request for a small stovetop object and not a lunatic attempt to get an expensive machine that will take up half the counter. (Although sure some Italians have those too.) Possibly this has helped head off an unpleasant argument, but what's more important to me is the increased chance that now someone will get to have espresso.
Haven't been writing because I'm busy working full time plus badgering any number of government entities for official paperwork I need to send to Italy plus figuring out travel and packing plans, plus trying to pull together a pitch that packages a TV concept by sabbotabby for a (long shot) development deal in Germany. Plus all the usual random social communication and household running stuff. It's a lot to deal with, even though it doesn't seem like that much more than I usually deal with.
Unfortunately, my health has been awful since Monday. I can't tell whether it's an acute stress response or something unrelated. The symptoms are the kinds of things that could be anything, like mild dizziness and burping, without any of the things that would help you figure out if it's anything. No fever (middle ear infection), no connection to when or what I've eaten (blood sugar), no memory or spacial reasoning loss (various organic brain problems), no connection to whether I'm sitting or standing (blood pressure), and so on and so on. My conclusions so far are that my vascular system is acting weird and it's probably but not definitely cortisol. I have some alternate theories (sudden onset extreme hayfever?) I still need to rule out with all this free time I don't have to experiment on myself, and then it's off to the doctor to get someone to poke a light in my ear and order some blood tests even though I just had some.
Haven't been writing because I'm busy working full time plus badgering any number of government entities for official paperwork I need to send to Italy plus figuring out travel and packing plans, plus trying to pull together a pitch that packages a TV concept by sabbotabby for a (long shot) development deal in Germany. Plus all the usual random social communication and household running stuff. It's a lot to deal with, even though it doesn't seem like that much more than I usually deal with.
Unfortunately, my health has been awful since Monday. I can't tell whether it's an acute stress response or something unrelated. The symptoms are the kinds of things that could be anything, like mild dizziness and burping, without any of the things that would help you figure out if it's anything. No fever (middle ear infection), no connection to when or what I've eaten (blood sugar), no memory or spacial reasoning loss (various organic brain problems), no connection to whether I'm sitting or standing (blood pressure), and so on and so on. My conclusions so far are that my vascular system is acting weird and it's probably but not definitely cortisol. I have some alternate theories (sudden onset extreme hayfever?) I still need to rule out with all this free time I don't have to experiment on myself, and then it's off to the doctor to get someone to poke a light in my ear and order some blood tests even though I just had some.