I guess I don't really care because we're talking about moths here, and those fuckers definitely aren't human, but I still don't like killing things… even if they are moths.
Anyway… for the second time in a week, I was interrupted in my office at home because a moth was flying around my head while I was at the computer.
Anyway, so the appropriate course of action is to run screaming from the room, right?
Tonight it only took about half an hour for this to happen. When I saw the moth flying around the den, I turned the TV and the lights in the house off and lit a small candle (tealight). Then I went back into the office and SHUT THE DOOR.
I expect that when I go eventually emerge from the office in a little while (no, I don't make it a habit to leave candles unattended), I will find a dead moth in/near the candle.
Then I will ask beg Yoshi to dispose of it.
Ok, like I said, I really don't care if this is humane or not. It just seems like the easiest way to kill the moth without actually touching it. Lest you suggest that I just swat it 'til it dies, it's not the MOTH that is so insidious, but the MOTH DUST. And everyone knows that swatting a moth only spreads the moth dust around. Eeek.
…I just geeked out about NOVA to Bossguy about global dimming.
I told him about contrails and everything.
I guess I ran out of stuff to talk about.
I woke up this morning and my left eye felt itchy. I got up and looked in the mirror and saw that my eyelid was puffed out. Upon further examination, I saw that I had a sty under my eyelid. I now join teebubble in the "I Have a Sty in My Eye Club." So that's the bad news for the day.
The good news is that my allergist had an opening today, so I'll be leaving early to see if I can get better drugs to control my incessant sneezing.
Since I was suffering from a insomnia (sleeping 4 hours in the evening will do that to you), I decided to crash out on the couch and try to bore myself to sleep.
I don't know why I thought watching NOVA was a good idea, because NOVA was my favorite TV show growing up and I almost never find it boring.
By then, it was approximately 3am by the time I was done watching NOVA and I was wide-awake and freaked out. So I decided I need to watch something more light-hearted before I went to sleep and dreamt about the apocalypse.
So I ended up watching 2 and a half episodes of "Everybody Hates Chris." By the time I started the 3rd episode, I decided I was ready to sleep, so that was about 4:30am. I was awakened by 9am by Yoshi because people were coming over and I didn't need to be sprawled all over the couch when they got there.
Anyway, I spent half the day trying to tell Yoshi about "global dimming" and finally finished (after many interruptions).
I am now banned from watching NOVA or Nature.
Yoshi should be glad I don't like scary movies.
Time to see the allergist again.
Today is the second day in a row where after taking multiple allergy drugs, I was still sneezing up a storm.
I took a Benadryl before work (Job 1.5) and I almost fell asleep at the keyboard. And I have to REALLY pay attention, so that wasn't good.
I came home from work and zonked out for like 3-4 hours.
Oh and I have hives.
…I woke up, messed around online for a bit, I ate the yummy breakfast that Yoshi made, started to take care of a little bit of correspondence and started having a huge sneezing fit, and had to lay down on the couch.
I laid there and watched several episodes of "Life & Times" and a Nature program about Snowflake the only known albino gorilla. I was still sneezy and splotchy but had to run to the post office, which I did.
I came right back and laid back down on the couch and started watching the episodes of "The West Wing" which I had not yet watched. That was approximately 7 episodes going back to the first part of the Election Day episode which aired at the beginning of April. That's right. I was two months behind on The West Wing and I ended up watching through the final episode (almost) without stopping.
Have you ever watched so much TV it felt like your brain was going to fall out of your head? Anytime I watch any more than a couple of hours of TV, that's what I feel like, but my sneezing was so bad that it felt better to lay on the couch in front of the TV instead of attempting to do any real work.
So there goes my "extra day" off. What a waste. But at least I took almost 10 hours of stuff off the TiVo.
Somewhere in there, Yoshi also made me dinner, too. (Steak & asparagus & broccoli.) I am a lucky girl.
UPDATE: Yoshi reminded me of the four episodes of "Deal or No Deal" that I also went through. One of them was a special 2-hour episode, so I was in front of the TV for a total of maybe 14-15 hours in one day. Eeek.
No comment on what day this was and whether or not one or both of us may or may not have been in the workplace. And keep in mind the boring and the extremely explicit has mostly been edited out.
That's right. After a bit more than 2 months in exile, some of it at my blogspot space, jozjozjoz.com is back… as promised, albeit rather delayed.
Major major major thank you's are due to a number of folks, but especially my most special-est, wonderful-est monkey, Michael of RockMeGently, who basically did EVERYTHING to get this blog set up for me. From backing up my blog archives since January 2003 to installing WordPress, to importing all my entries (twice), plus countless other steps in between.
Photo taken in April 2006 at il Birrificio di Como. Como, Italy.
Now that I'm finally back, I can't promise any scintillating or titillating news, but I will do my best to keep up and not be MIA. Keep in mind I have a new host, a new blogging software, and limited brain capacity to learn things as quickly as I used to… so apologies in advance for any wonkiness!
In the meantime, I will take requests… is there anything in particular you want to hear about?
But how come the first one didn't?
And how can you configure so you can see who the author of the post is?
WTF for the Lakers tonight?
I mean really there shouldn't have even been a Game 6… but Game 7 in Phoenix? Damn.
Tonight my Mom received an award which was given to only 27 people out of 17,000+ who were eligible.
I'm so happy I was there tonight to celebrate with her.
…is going through my papers on my desk at work?
My desk may look like a disaster area, but that doesn't mean I don't know what state I leave my desk in when I leave.
I got to my office this morning and something was amiss. My desk was not the same kind of messy I left it in.
The folder of take-out menus were scattered all over my desk. But mixed in with my other papers. I would NEVER do that to my papers.
So now I want to know who was going through my stuff. Luckily, everything that is confidential is locked up, but I feel violated.
I'm going to resort to locking EVERYTHING up. Or maybe installing a secret web cam.
I emphasize the "arrrgh" part.
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