*Hack* *Cough* *Wheeeze*

I have been sick in some flavor or another for a couple weeks now. This week's variation is a persistent hacking cough & chest congestion, along with the usual drippy nose & malaise.
A co-worker says I sound just like she did when she turned out to have walking pneumonia, which would be lovely. I Don't even have a primary care doc so I'm not sure where I'd go to get it looked at.

Meme Reply #1

sylvari asked:

Tell me your best childhood memory.

That's actually a really hard thing to answer. Nearly all of my memories previous to 1996 are vastly fractured, and I have great difficulty recalling things clearly. I can can recall most places, and people, and even some events. However myself and my place in them is usually missing or hard to determine. A lot of the clearer memories are because of outside factors such as home movies, or family stories or whatnot.

As such I don't have a single clear favorite childhood memory. But I do recall overall events even if the details are long gone. I do recall that my mom, sis & I used to meet my two cousins from RI & my aunt (my mom's sister) at a state park in CT about halfway between our houses either once a month or every other week during the summer. We'd hang out on the beach of the lake there for much of the day, eating a packed lunch, and sometimes get ice cream at the stand there. It was fun, I liked seeing my cousins and it was something to look forward to.

Meme Reply #2

glaucos asked:

If you could be any car what would it be? And why.

I could try and write something about being most like a classic car with my big fins, or most like a Yugo with my unreliable engine. But honestly I've never understood these questions.

"If you could be any [insert inanimate object category here] what kind of [insert inanimate object category here] would you be?" just doesn't make any sense to me. Because being an inanimate object just makes no sense. You get to sit there and do bugger all and think bugger all and whatnot.

It is the same reason I don't bother with 99.8% of the LJ quizzes out there. Because whether it is telling me I'm plutonium, a bole weevil, Montana, tapioca or Belgium I just can't manage to care.

Meme Reply #3

backwoods Asked:

Your hair.

For those who haven't seen it my hair looks like this:


(Pic was taken by ayalanya and is a few years old, but the style hasn't changed)

My hairstyle is essentially a buzzcut with a long braided rattail off the back. The tail is down to my waist at this point. I have this because I like long hair and I like short hair. So this hairstyle gives me the benefit of ease of care of short hair, with the enjoyment of longhair.

I had a rattail when I was a kid. And some time in middle school I cut it off and went to a buzzcut. When I moved away for college I started growing the rattail back in, but kept the buzzcut for the rest of my head. I started it just to be a bit different, and since then it has become a sort of signature hairstyle. The rattail once was big enough that it went across most of the back of my head, but a few years ago I trimmed it back down to the thinner style you see here.

My hair is thinning out in front now, and I'll probably be bald there in a few more years. But I decided long ago I wasn't going to fight going bald or try to cover it up. At most I might keep the buzzcut trimmed close more and not let the interval between trims be as long as it currently is.

Meme Reply #4

Somebody asked:

How do you feel about people that you don't know readng and commenting on your blog?

As for reading, I don't care a whit. If it bothered me I'd friends-lock the journal.

For commenting I'm not sure if you mean "People who I don't know but who use their LJ to comment" or "People who comment anonymously", so I'll answer them separately.

For "People who I don't know but who use their LJ to comment" it is totally fine by me. The only times it bugs me is when said people assume a level of friendship or deep knowledge about my life based solely on my LJ and not on having actually met me. This doesn't come up often but occasionally I have had someone tell me how I should respond to something I've posted about, or given me advice that was completely at odds with my life and my own philosophy. Those annoy me.

For "People who comment anonymously" I mostly just don't understand it. Even if you don't have an LJ you can easily sign your comments. I guess I don't understand being unwilling to own the things you say. If you aren't willing to own up to what you say then maybe you should look closer at what you're saying. As such, I consider people who leave anonymous insulting, derogatory, etc. comments to be among the most pathetic losers out there. (though sometimes they can be really freaking hysterical)