doc's office just called - my TSH level was normal...alrighty, so there must be something _else_ going on, other than a thyroid problem...

urgh, this is just so fucking annoying.

there's one species out there in which the females are DEFINITELY the weaker sex...(or more annoying, at least)...

ginko trees....

mom's got a ginko in her front yard...it's a female...apparently, it's the females that bear fruit...these grape-sized fruits fall from the tree and proceed to rot, making a huge stink in the process...not to mention the uncomfortable sensations invoked when stepping on the little fuckers! apparently, we can use Fruit Eliminator - a type of birth control for fruit trees - to stop it from bearing fruit, but ya have to apply it in the springtime and we found out about it too late for this year...

there is a good side though - it's a beautiful tree, and in the fall, the leaves are a blazing yellow...most of the leaves fall at one time - it happened last weekend...it's a beautiful sight...mom says it looks like it's raining corn flakes...

if only those damned fruits weren't causing such a stink...

well, the gayindy hornet's nest settled back down rather quickly...never did get a reply from wally though...*shrug*

got email from christine today - at the last pitch-in several of us mentioned wanting to go to the harry potter movie, so it looks like about 20 of us will be going on opening night, in two weeks...*8-)

robin dyed my hair for me again - we had our semi-regular bitch-fest about work and associated co-workers...she's got two new kittens - they're sooo cute! melissa & clare and cheryl & jen & sierra stopped by to check out the kitties as well....i hung out and had dinner with robin & kerry - they make their jambalaya with steak and sausage - different, but really good! shrimp woulda been nice, but kerry doesn't care much for those bottom-feeders, he's a red meat man...

so, i've been having this seafood craving...i just called dale to see if he and greg would like to go out for crab legs...seems they probably can't make it over here by dinner time - they're in New Orleans!! duh....lucky for them they'll be back here for mah jongg tomorrow nite though - if not, i'd hafta kill them...

woo hoo - my babysmasher stickers arrived!

oh shit....i've stirred up a major hornet's nest on the gayindy list...i suppose i was a bit grumpier than i shoulda been when i posted my reply to wally's message, so i was a bit more hateful than i usually am, but i still don't think i'd take back anything i said...even though people on the list have voiced angry messages, i've gotten messages off-list thanking me for what i said...

wally has posted the following to the gayindy list, and i'm debating sending a reply either to him personally or to the list as a whole:

Answering Machine Message for the Mental Health Institute

Hello, and welcome to the Mental Health Hotline.
If you are obsessive or compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependant, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3,4,5 and 6
If you are paranoid, we already know who you are, but stay on
the line while we trace your call.
If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be
transferred to the mother ship.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice
will tell you which number to press.
If you have short term memory loss, press 9, if you have short
term memory loss, press 9, if you have short term memory loss,
press 9.
If you have low self esteem, please hang up. All our operators
are too busy to talk to you.

-- alrighty, sending this to a friend that knows your sense of humor is one thing, but to a list of queers that may or may not have these issues? not cool. it makes him look like a major dickhead, in my not so humble opinion...mentally, i'm pretty stable (for the most part - i think) but i have been having these memory problems lately, and it just bugged me...(not to mention spelling co-dependent wrong *smirk*) so, how do i go about replying without looking like a major lunatic? *ponder*

amazing how those day-dwellers don't stop and think about us nighttime peeps...it's kinda hard to sleep when the damned neighbors are using chainsaws to cut down a tree in their yard...ugh, couldn't they at least do it on one of my days off, when daytime sleep isn't mandatory?

oh well, i had to get up and go get bloodwork done anyways...but getting back to sleep will be a bitch...*groan* *moan* *whine*

whoo hoo hoo....the first season of queer as folk (the us version) is gonna be out on dvd in january...i've already pre-ordered it from amazon.com...hopefully season 2 will continue the trend they had of each episode being better than the ones previous...yeah, there are problems with the show, but i think what it really boils down to is that these are very realistic characters and some of them aren't very likeable - brian's an asshole, but ya know what, there are quite a few guys out there like him...and i know there's been a consistent gripe from some of the lesbo communities out there about the fact that there's only 2 lesbos on the show, but i really don't have a problem with that...my problem was with the fact that the token lesbos in the show were so 2-dimensional...and that certainly changed as the season went on...regardless of all the criticism, i think it's a very realistic show, a funny show, and one that can really tug at the ol' heartstrings...

awww shit....ya know, i think that webmd does more harm than good sometimes....ya hear about something that might be wrong with ya, ya look up the symptoms on the website, then *BAM!* ya have a new disease, freshly diagnosed via the world wide web...now it looks like i've got graves disease....the most common cause of hyperthyroidism...i'm just a fucking mess...of course, i KNOW i don't really have it, haven't gotten the blood work done yet and all, but it'll still sit there, in the back of my head, picking away....

another weekend rapidly comes to an end...urgh...

mom and i saw K-PAX on friday - pretty good movie, though it was different than what i expected...kevin spacey is so freakin cool...

still unsure of the whole brain surgery thing - i wish november 12 would hurry and get here so we could get this video eeg done...

i also need to get some blood work done for dr. e - seems my thyroid is a bit overactive...one more thing to throw into the mix, i guess...it'd be great if there was just one pill i could take to cure all of what ails me, but i suppose that's asking for a bit much...