Recently, like everyone else on earth, I have been sicker than I’ve ever been before. It started out a month ago with the flu, which turned into bronchitis. Then I went to get my allergy shots, had a weirdo reaction and wound up with a giant arm. This was bad, because it looked like oneContinue reading “Sicker Than That, Even”
Category Archives: sickly
Good News, Bad News
1) I don’t have a cracked tooth. 2) I don’t have a giant tumor behind my eye. 3) I do have a sinus infection. Of the three, the last option is probably best, but hoo boy, am I in pain. I’m blaming, at least partially, the stress of the last few days before the election.Continue reading “Good News, Bad News”
Non Fashion-Related
But possibly crazy-related. I had my first migraine in over a year on Friday. For some reason, getting a migraine always makes me feel a little nutty. This is possibly because no one seems to understand entirely why people get them or how they work, or it’s possibly because I have a bizarre neurosis inContinue reading “Non Fashion-Related”
Reader Participation
What should the word “lurp” mean? This question has a purpose. I can’t promise that my limited attention span will enable me to reveal that purpose, however. I am recovering from my 47th cold of the winter, by the way. The first year I lived in New York, I was sick all the time justContinue reading “Reader Participation”
Totes Possible That I Am Going to Live
After sleeping much of the past two days, I am pleased to announce that I’m going to survive this cold. This is very exciting, because yesterday, when I couldn’t even really haul my laundry down the stairs, I was not at all sure. I would like to say that I think it’s unfair that aContinue reading “Totes Possible That I Am Going to Live”
OMG, So Sick
This weekend I went on a trip to Vermont, and because such a thing is apparently not allowed, I got the worst cold I have ever had. Really: It’s the worst one. Symptoms of said cold: 1) Exhaustion, such that I had to pause whilst walking up the one flight of stairs to my apartment.2)Continue reading “OMG, So Sick”
Service Journalism
This is where you need to go to get all those last-minute gifts on your list. You’re welcome. In other news, I’m probably finally going to go to the cracker farm, because I’ve been cooped up in my apartment all weekend fighting with something that Ma Smash claims is the Norwalk virus. I thought thatContinue reading “Service Journalism”
Stomach Bug + The Blues = All-Day Sleeping
Laura: How are you?Me: Oh, you know. I made myself take a shower today.Laura: Good for you! Everyone has this stomach thing, and it really blows. It’s so bad, that people are calling me to do things later in the week, and I’m all, “Jeez, I don’t know. I can’t imagine ever being well again,Continue reading “Stomach Bug + The Blues = All-Day Sleeping”
Jennie Smash 