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Mar. 18th, 2005
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I have had a headache for three days.
Of course, I also noticed a sore throat starting up last night, so I think it's just that I haven't quite managed to get over that cold I've been fighting. But it's mostly ignorable, because of my lovely 'not getting sick, dammit!' pills.
And not managing to sleep more than 6 hours a night for the past few nights probably isn't helping. (neither is waking up every 3 hours)
Bah.
But, at least I have a doctor's appointment soon, and plan to ask my doc about sleep apnea. Hopefully this time I won't have the appointment prempted by a kidney stone!
(And, in cat news: I am probably going to give up on the pill gun for pilling my cat, because it's easier to see if he's swallowing it if it's in my fingers, both because I'm really not terribly coordinated and having the added confusion of the pill gun makes that worse, and because it's easier to see what's going on with fewer things in the way. Also, he's not difficult to pill, really)
Of course, I also noticed a sore throat starting up last night, so I think it's just that I haven't quite managed to get over that cold I've been fighting. But it's mostly ignorable, because of my lovely 'not getting sick, dammit!' pills.
And not managing to sleep more than 6 hours a night for the past few nights probably isn't helping. (neither is waking up every 3 hours)
Bah.
But, at least I have a doctor's appointment soon, and plan to ask my doc about sleep apnea. Hopefully this time I won't have the appointment prempted by a kidney stone!
(And, in cat news: I am probably going to give up on the pill gun for pilling my cat, because it's easier to see if he's swallowing it if it's in my fingers, both because I'm really not terribly coordinated and having the added confusion of the pill gun makes that worse, and because it's easier to see what's going on with fewer things in the way. Also, he's not difficult to pill, really)
I have had a headache for three days.
Of course, I also noticed a sore throat starting up last night, so I think it's just that I haven't quite managed to get over that cold I've been fighting. But it's mostly ignorable, because of my lovely 'not getting sick, dammit!' pills.
And not managing to sleep more than 6 hours a night for the past few nights probably isn't helping. (neither is waking up every 3 hours)
Bah.
But, at least I have a doctor's appointment soon, and plan to ask my doc about sleep apnea. Hopefully this time I won't have the appointment prempted by a kidney stone!
(And, in cat news: I am probably going to give up on the pill gun for pilling my cat, because it's easier to see if he's swallowing it if it's in my fingers, both because I'm really not terribly coordinated and having the added confusion of the pill gun makes that worse, and because it's easier to see what's going on with fewer things in the way. Also, he's not difficult to pill, really)
Of course, I also noticed a sore throat starting up last night, so I think it's just that I haven't quite managed to get over that cold I've been fighting. But it's mostly ignorable, because of my lovely 'not getting sick, dammit!' pills.
And not managing to sleep more than 6 hours a night for the past few nights probably isn't helping. (neither is waking up every 3 hours)
Bah.
But, at least I have a doctor's appointment soon, and plan to ask my doc about sleep apnea. Hopefully this time I won't have the appointment prempted by a kidney stone!
(And, in cat news: I am probably going to give up on the pill gun for pilling my cat, because it's easier to see if he's swallowing it if it's in my fingers, both because I'm really not terribly coordinated and having the added confusion of the pill gun makes that worse, and because it's easier to see what's going on with fewer things in the way. Also, he's not difficult to pill, really)
So, when I get information via phone message or email or other asynchronous medium, my first impulse is _always_ to reply with simply an 'ack'.
Except that, while I'm sure most of the people communicating with me would understand that, I'm not certain that all of them would. And, well, 'ack' if not meaning 'acknowledge' could easily be an expression of distress - _not_ the information I would want to be conveying!
So, much as my first impulse is to say 'ack', what I actually _do_ is convey the same information in a slightly less... computer-ish manner. I simply thank them for the information and let them know that it arrived and was appreciated. Never fails to amuse me, however, that I want to just say 'ack' and be done with it. Especially when I'm dealing with a phone message. Phones are _not_ methods which I enjoy using to write messages, and are an excellent way to demonstrate that I _can_ be brief if I need to be. ;)
*shakes head* It's funny sometimes, watching the ways in which I trained myself out of first impulses so as to be able to better interact with people the way they tend to expect to be interacted with.
Then again, it's also pretty funny watching me around people who comprehend my various shortcuts and methods with which I will ping them verbally. (I appear to have added 'beep' to my more normal method of using various types of meows to ping people and to reply to verbal pings. Hell, I frequently answer the phone - although only if it's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
australian_joe - with 'meow'. I don't think I do that to anyone else, and don't even always do it to him!)
Except that, while I'm sure most of the people communicating with me would understand that, I'm not certain that all of them would. And, well, 'ack' if not meaning 'acknowledge' could easily be an expression of distress - _not_ the information I would want to be conveying!
So, much as my first impulse is to say 'ack', what I actually _do_ is convey the same information in a slightly less... computer-ish manner. I simply thank them for the information and let them know that it arrived and was appreciated. Never fails to amuse me, however, that I want to just say 'ack' and be done with it. Especially when I'm dealing with a phone message. Phones are _not_ methods which I enjoy using to write messages, and are an excellent way to demonstrate that I _can_ be brief if I need to be. ;)
*shakes head* It's funny sometimes, watching the ways in which I trained myself out of first impulses so as to be able to better interact with people the way they tend to expect to be interacted with.
Then again, it's also pretty funny watching me around people who comprehend my various shortcuts and methods with which I will ping them verbally. (I appear to have added 'beep' to my more normal method of using various types of meows to ping people and to reply to verbal pings. Hell, I frequently answer the phone - although only if it's
australian_joe - with 'meow'. I don't think I do that to anyone else, and don't even always do it to him!)So, when I get information via phone message or email or other asynchronous medium, my first impulse is _always_ to reply with simply an 'ack'.
Except that, while I'm sure most of the people communicating with me would understand that, I'm not certain that all of them would. And, well, 'ack' if not meaning 'acknowledge' could easily be an expression of distress - _not_ the information I would want to be conveying!
So, much as my first impulse is to say 'ack', what I actually _do_ is convey the same information in a slightly less... computer-ish manner. I simply thank them for the information and let them know that it arrived and was appreciated. Never fails to amuse me, however, that I want to just say 'ack' and be done with it. Especially when I'm dealing with a phone message. Phones are _not_ methods which I enjoy using to write messages, and are an excellent way to demonstrate that I _can_ be brief if I need to be. ;)
*shakes head* It's funny sometimes, watching the ways in which I trained myself out of first impulses so as to be able to better interact with people the way they tend to expect to be interacted with.
Then again, it's also pretty funny watching me around people who comprehend my various shortcuts and methods with which I will ping them verbally. (I appear to have added 'beep' to my more normal method of using various types of meows to ping people and to reply to verbal pings. Hell, I frequently answer the phone - although only if it'saustralian_joe - with 'meow'. I don't think I do that to anyone else, and don't even always do it to him!)
Except that, while I'm sure most of the people communicating with me would understand that, I'm not certain that all of them would. And, well, 'ack' if not meaning 'acknowledge' could easily be an expression of distress - _not_ the information I would want to be conveying!
So, much as my first impulse is to say 'ack', what I actually _do_ is convey the same information in a slightly less... computer-ish manner. I simply thank them for the information and let them know that it arrived and was appreciated. Never fails to amuse me, however, that I want to just say 'ack' and be done with it. Especially when I'm dealing with a phone message. Phones are _not_ methods which I enjoy using to write messages, and are an excellent way to demonstrate that I _can_ be brief if I need to be. ;)
*shakes head* It's funny sometimes, watching the ways in which I trained myself out of first impulses so as to be able to better interact with people the way they tend to expect to be interacted with.
Then again, it's also pretty funny watching me around people who comprehend my various shortcuts and methods with which I will ping them verbally. (I appear to have added 'beep' to my more normal method of using various types of meows to ping people and to reply to verbal pings. Hell, I frequently answer the phone - although only if it's
australian_joe - with 'meow'. I don't think I do that to anyone else, and don't even always do it to him!)Three from ladytabitha:
Fascinating rant, Just shoot them.
Former pro-lifer talks about trying to adopt out her bi-racial child.
Not conservative or liberal. Rational or irrational. Yeah. Very much so.
One fromregyt:
If you're too [...], I'm not interested, onregyt's journal, reposted (plus addendums) from thejoshu's journal.
ladytabitha:Fascinating rant, Just shoot them.
Former pro-lifer talks about trying to adopt out her bi-racial child.
Not conservative or liberal. Rational or irrational. Yeah. Very much so.
One from
regyt:If you're too [...], I'm not interested, on
regyt's journal, reposted (plus addendums) from thejoshu's journal.Three from ladytabitha:
Fascinating rant, Just shoot them.
Former pro-lifer talks about trying to adopt out her bi-racial child.
Not conservative or liberal. Rational or irrational. Yeah. Very much so.
One fromregyt:
If you're too [...], I'm not interested, onregyt's journal, reposted (plus addendums) from thejoshu's journal.
ladytabitha:Fascinating rant, Just shoot them.
Former pro-lifer talks about trying to adopt out her bi-racial child.
Not conservative or liberal. Rational or irrational. Yeah. Very much so.
One from
regyt:If you're too [...], I'm not interested, on
regyt's journal, reposted (plus addendums) from thejoshu's journal.[silly.work]
Mar. 18th, 2005 04:58 pmApparently me giggling will (sometimes) draw co-workers over to find out why. :)
Just because my amusement is very audible (and infectious) means _nothing_!
(I don't know _what_ I would do if I worked somewhere that laughing aloud was a problem)
Just because my amusement is very audible (and infectious) means _nothing_!
(I don't know _what_ I would do if I worked somewhere that laughing aloud was a problem)