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dchenesHooray, it's Friday!
I got awakened at 5:45 this morning by a torrential downpour. That was cool, though. The rain was coming down so hard it sounded like hail when it hit the window. It was also cool because 5:45 is far enough from 6:50 (when my alarm goes off) that I could lie there and sort of half fall asleep and listen to the rain. It's vaguely ironic that I had to take a shower this morning; I could have just gone outside and stood in the rain...not. :)
In case you didn't know that Amtrak is in trouble, consider this: I'm taking the train to visit my parents in CT this weekend. It now costs $79 round trip. When I started doing this, it cost $52. Not only that, but there's exactly one train I can take to get back to Boston, and it gets me there at midnight on Sunday. I guess Amtrak has decided to run fewer trains on the one route that makes it any money.
I keep seeing metallic flashes. I think it's a very mild form of the weird thing my vision does when I get a migraine. What happens then is I start losing patches of vision behind glowing silver spots. With the flashes, I don't actually ever get a headache, but the idea of having a very low-level migraine for three solid weeks bothers me. I should probably go see the doctor about it, but I have a sneaky suspicion that as long as it doesn't hurt, they won't do anything about it. Or they'd want to run every test in the world and I'd wind up paying a zillion dollars so they can tell me there's nothing they can do about it.
In celebration of nothing in particular:
Some primal termite knocked on wood,
And tasted it, and found it good,
And that is why your cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
--Ogden Nas
I got awakened at 5:45 this morning by a torrential downpour. That was cool, though. The rain was coming down so hard it sounded like hail when it hit the window. It was also cool because 5:45 is far enough from 6:50 (when my alarm goes off) that I could lie there and sort of half fall asleep and listen to the rain. It's vaguely ironic that I had to take a shower this morning; I could have just gone outside and stood in the rain...not. :)
In case you didn't know that Amtrak is in trouble, consider this: I'm taking the train to visit my parents in CT this weekend. It now costs $79 round trip. When I started doing this, it cost $52. Not only that, but there's exactly one train I can take to get back to Boston, and it gets me there at midnight on Sunday. I guess Amtrak has decided to run fewer trains on the one route that makes it any money.
I keep seeing metallic flashes. I think it's a very mild form of the weird thing my vision does when I get a migraine. What happens then is I start losing patches of vision behind glowing silver spots. With the flashes, I don't actually ever get a headache, but the idea of having a very low-level migraine for three solid weeks bothers me. I should probably go see the doctor about it, but I have a sneaky suspicion that as long as it doesn't hurt, they won't do anything about it. Or they'd want to run every test in the world and I'd wind up paying a zillion dollars so they can tell me there's nothing they can do about it.
In celebration of nothing in particular:
Some primal termite knocked on wood,
And tasted it, and found it good,
And that is why your cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
--Ogden Nas
