I honestly cannot remember the last time that I was in so much pain. I have a humongous pain tolerance (hurray for redheads) but I was just about reduced to tears yesterday. Le sigh. I’m still not feeling 100% today but I feel oh-so-much better than I did yesterday.

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Best of all, this all happened at work. I’m standing talking to my co-worker and I started feeling really, really intense pain and just about collapsed. I broke out in a cold sweat and had to sit with my head on the desk until the pain subsided (which it did about 45 minutes later). I would have gone home; however, I had driven down to the ‘Tro’tro station and didn’t think I could drive myself home. I still don’t know what happened. It was very, very curious.

On top of this, I have a cold. Joyous day…

Wouldn’t C-Span be more entertaining if the U.S. Congress were more like the Taiwanese Parliament???

I think so…

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Junk mail grandma is gone. I told her that I’m pretty much a Libertarian in every other way save name only. That conversation was funny (she’s very conservative and sees no other view point except for her own). I can respect many different positions but I have a problem if one has a position without empirical evidence.and she basically throws back up whatever she heard Hannity or Limbaugh throw out on the old AM stations… le sigh.

I’m starting to get anxious to go back to school and start the semester although I know the state of things have probably not progressed. I think I have enough plans to make myself sufficiently busy though and away from said situation.

I still haven’t opened the French books. They’re pretty much waving their little white flags and baguettes at me 24/7 now. I’ll get around to them… someday.

But really, why read books about French negotiating behaviors when you can read about the struggles of Central Americans crossing through Mexico and up into the U.S. (yes, see my dilemma now?). I just finished reading “Enrique’s Journey” by Sonia Nazario  and it was one of the saddest books I’ve ever read. It gives a lot of perspective on the situation and threw a lot of ideas I had out the window. I love things that conflict my ideas and see it as a way to build stronger evidence for my own ideas or present new ideas never thought of. And as much as I don’t believe in astrology, it goes along with the Libran nature.

I’m having dinner with Ryan tomorrow and dinner with Steve later this week.

This week is my last full week with “the man” until next summer. I’m happy I’m still going to be down there on Fridays.