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I'm going to stop mentioning non-Ljers in my journal. It seems to be unlucky for them. Blergh, and then blergh, and another one on the side. My brother D. just makes it home to the states in time to be diagnosed with some sort of rare nerve disorder which causes him searing pain in his face for no apparent reason. So I suppose things could be worse. My face could be on fire. His whole body could be.

Today's forecast: scattered showers, thought quality in the poor range. Chance of mental fuckup high. Those with sensitivities should not enter my noosphere without protection.

I had serious thoughts yesterday about packing up my shit and leaving town. Maybe heading for the Pacific Northwest. I've always wanted to go to Seattle. I'm suited to rain.

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Wow. SERIOUS deja vu!

Heh. The phantom post returns. Figures.

It's baaaaaack...

And what's up with the time stamp? Buh?

Oh - I backdated it so that it would be in the right place in my list. This is still the post from yesterday, and the next post complains about the absence of this post - I didn't think it would make sense the other way round.

I meant my comments' time stamp, which appears to be reflecting... GMT? Which is powerfully odd, as none of the other comments I've made today in other LJs have been stamped GMT - they've been stamped Pacific Time.

Oh ah. Actually, now that you mention it, all the comments associated with this post seem to be GMT. Side effect of long hours spent wandering in the net, perhaps.

Bulletin from EH:

Site committee now looking to expand search fro new home to include Pacific North West New yearnings have come to life. Expanded search considered crucial if present reality ugly does not evolve or dissolve
Stand by for further updates

Interesting ... when I consider packing my shtick and leaving town, I usually consider the desert southwest ... I think just because I've never been there (that I can remember) and I want to see the rock formations ...

I'd not realized anybody else would consider packing it in and heading out.

Whaddya know.

I love New Mexico and Arizona... I couldn't think of moving there, though. Too dry for this Florida girl. I spent a week and a half in that part of the country once, and had to carry around a squirt-bottle filled with salt water and spray it up my nose every twenty minutes or so, just so I could manage breathing and walking around.
On the upside, there's very little out there to be allergic to.

Why salt water? Wouldn't ordinary water do it?

regular water would (via osmosis) cause swelling of the mucous tissues (think of crinkled soft puffy fingers/toes after soaking in a tub for a while).

Using salt water that doesn't happen ... plus it is rather soothing to soft tissue (which is why you should gargle salt water after a dental cleaning, etc).

I have discovered during my occasional adventures with the neti pot that salt water navigates the sinus tissues a lot more easily than fresh... I'm pleased to see that somebody knows why - saves me from answering the question.

Even better than Neti, if you let a actifed wear off when you're 80 feet under water, and you shoot up to the surface, the resulting sinus blowout is like the relief felt when busting open a hundred whiteheads from the middle of your brain.

It's not that nice in fresh water. It just hurts like holy hell in fresh water. But in salt water... it was like post-coital bliss. Not just quick-bang post-coital either, like life-altering coitus post-coital.

like the relief felt when busting open a hundred whiteheads from the middle of your brain

This gets my vote for Simile of the Century.

Stick around - he throws these out all the time. My reigning favorite was when being ineligible for SCA barony was like being ineligible to have a dry pineapple shoved up your butt.

That's our Mac.

Thank you.

It is actually up there as one of my most memorable moments in life. Which is saying a lot because I don't remember a whole lot of my life. ;-)

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