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Cleaning emails right now, and I found a couple of stories I like to tell over and over, and raves I love so much. So I'll since I'm going to be littering up friends lists with pointless babble tonight, I should probably get started.

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I once was introduced to a boy by my quadmate, as said boy was leaving the room. I said all the right things, shook hands, and said goodbye. I fetched what ever it was I'd come back to the room for, headed out, and stopped by the RA's office on my way out the building. Where I smiled at the strange boy talking with the RA, said, "I don't believe I caught your name?"

"Guess it wasn't that nice to meet me then was it?" he said, and took my hand. I could have died. As it was, I'm still proud of the save I tried--"It was. It was so nice, I wanted to do it again." But he didn't believe me. :) Didn't hold it against me any though.

Tam Lin

From senior spring:

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( Tam Lin babbling )

I went and looked for this email because I was thinking about The Lady's Not for Burning again tonight, quoting bear the part about 50 years. I'm pretty sure there is an annotated version of Tam Lin out there, but it isn't really what I want. I want to be able to annotate it myself. :) I love reading this book because it reminds me of the things I haven't read that I mean to, but just don't have time to, or have better things to do. I really should find my copy of this to read again.

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I ran out of singulair the other day. This is my fabulously expensive allergy/asthma drug. And I'm no longer getting an income, so I didn't want to renew the prescription, plus I actually have to call the doctor about this, so I keep putting it off. And I also keep finding things that I can't do since it's worn off. For example, when I have it, I can laugh during "whose line is it" without having a coughing fit and being unable to breath for the rest of the night. When I was at Clarion, I did that all the time--I'd have enormous coughing fits any time we'd be having a good time, especially outside. I've never popped a rib out of place, so I didn't really think they were *that* bad. I did have days when my back hurt so much any time I moved, but it usually would take me most of the day to remember a coughing fit. (those are really nasty days, by the way, because you feel awful and you can't remember why) but basically, I never thought anything of it. It was just the way I was. And then when I came home in April, I went on a little bike ride (a mile, with an uphill tendency) and couldn't breathe for two days or more, despite the fact that I never got out of breath. So now I take the fabulously expensive pills, and they make my allergies manageable and they make me able to breath properly. Except when I run out of them. I had this borderline panic attack the other day, and it wasn't until I shook myself by the scruff of the neck that I realized the reason that the biofeedback techniques that I taught myself weren't working was that I *couldn't* take deep slow breaths. And so while my brain was going, "nice and calm, deep breaths," my body was going "fight or flight!" So I took one of my remaining stash (now one, which I will have tonight.) and used a different method of relaxing and it was much better the next night.


I should make a list. To Do on Friday:

• get credit card for my mother.
• Renew prescription for medicine.
• Package everything for mailing (Amanda, Andrea, M'ris, my roommate, my brother, any story that goes out.).
• Find Tam Lin.
• Query Say... (hmm. I think they're going on vacation soonish, possibly like, tomorrow, so I probably should have queried already. I'll do that before bed.)
• Back everything up
• Back up docs onto website.
• Reformat to XP.
• Hope it's better than ME was.