sundries

Thank you all for the pinched nerve advice. I am pretty sure this is a combination of: ongoing ergonomic issues at work causing muscle pain/cramping and travel stuff. A hot shower and enforced rest last night helped. It still hurts and tingles, but not as much, and my main goal is for it not to get worse again during the day right now. It's far from the most painful thing I've ever experienced, but it's annoying and distracting and affecting my productivity, which I find highly objectionable.

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Lou Dobbs is considering a run for president. And you thought 2012 couldn't have more racism on parade.

Yesterday there were mass political killings in the Philipines. 46 people are now confirmed dead in the pre-election violence, including twelve journalists, according to Repoters Without Borders.

Department of Crappy Songs I'm Obsessed With: Miss Hollywood by Carbon Leaf. Yes, this is another Con Sweet thing.

Today's big news is that a homeless organization called UHO is really a fraud. I thought everyone in New York City had known that for years?

The muse, after: obituary for Charis Wilson.

All hail the unconscious brain: Two nights ago I dreamed about the whereabouts of something really important I had misplaced and had been fretting over for a while. Sure enough, this morning when I checked, there it was.

Tomorrow night I take Patty to see the balloons getting blown up for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Last night, more Bollywood, in which the most common phrase uttered in our household was "is this really happening?" as it was hard for us to tell what were dream sequences and what weren't (the answer was that the scenes in question were often a mix of dream and reality and we weren't picking up on that film vernacular particularly quickly). Weirdest thing about this film? One character looks so much like marchek it's disconcerting. Also, the douchebag fiance guy who won't get the girl in the end totally looks like the Indian Clive Owen. There was also a major subplot involving Switzerland and a giant cow bell.