In which I heartily approve. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Yes. If you’re not familiar with the details of the good doctor’s story, Dr. Wakefield is the guy who published the shoddy research that led thousands of people to believe that there was a link between certain vaccinations and autism. I say ‘shoddy’ because The Lancet […]
In which even 10-day breaks don’t seem to lower the efficacy of these nifty little free programs. Okay, so I told you I’m doing these online exercise thingies, right? Where you do, like, an “exhaustion test” (that’s some kind of sporty-person lingo, apparently) and compare your results with this little table which tells you how […]
In which I talk about stuff that was never before interesting to me: exercising, dieting, and not smoking. I haven’t smoked since March 29th – twelve days ago, now. I can breathe, my tongue isn’t covered with slime when I wake up in the morning, I don’t clear my throat elevendy-hundred times a day, and […]
In which I’m obsessed with age-appropriate things: food, weight, and exercise. Gawd. I rewarded myself for a week of smoke-free living by buying some groovy skins from DecalGirl. I found a 30% off code so I got three: one for my netbook, one for my cell phone, and a new one for the Kindle. I […]
In which I’m being very good and deserve lots of presents. I haven’t had a cigarette in five days. When I go out at night and everyone steps outside to smoke, I have a 4mg nicotine lozenge. Most of the rest of the time, I just ride it out. The NRT literature suggests that I […]
In which there’s a barely organized ramble to get you up to date. Health I relaunched “Operation: Quit Smoking” on the 25th. It sucks and I hate it. All I want to do is eat and sleep and never go anywhere or do anything that reminds me of smoking, because nic fits suck, but of […]
In which there are germs. I have a rotten chest cold. It sucks. I don’t like it. I’m also pretty sure that nearly everyone is way cooler than me because goblinbox.com is gonna be nine in two weeks and I still don’t have a book deal. That is all.
In which it was too much to hope I could go two entire winters without catching something. When my alarm went off at nine this morning, I didn’t notice that I felt bad or anything, but I did pass right the fuck back out until 11:30. Hard. Like, lights-out. I got up and had breakfast […]
In which I share a little something I’ve been thinking about. I try to shield myself from too much media (because American media is, as you know, ON FUCKING CRACK) but one can’t be alive and totally ignorant of the issues. One does, after all, read the New York Times and listen to NPR on […]
In which I bitch about my current work schedule, but find some stuff to be excited about. I had yesterday off, which made it my Saturday. I have today off too, which means it’s my Sunday even though it’s your hump day. I hate my new work schedule, I really do. Let’s look at the […]
