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Oh my fucking lord. The headache from hell finally left. Sorry, stupid to complain, but I get one like that like once a year without being sick. Not from corn (or it sure as hell better not be) and not sinuses...didn't go away in the night, just got worse. Didn't want to take an excedrin since i'd had an asprin last night (willow bark extract only comes in one size and it's a bit much for my body weight) but had to give in this morning when my oatmeal was threatening to cause my stomach to do distinctly not nice things. Should have known when downtown Chicago smelled like melting chocolate that I was in for a not normal headache. Don't normally get the migrainish symptoms but if I get the smell hallucinations well....I was hoping that everyone else smelled it too and just didn't want to ask. Dumb, I know.

But ahhhhhh, can I say how much I love excedrin??:)

Oh yeah, and Ocean's 12 sucks ass.

An actual post w/ no complaining by moi

So yeah, Chicago is the same old same old. Nice city and all, I'm just never certain I could make it through an entire winter here (kinda how I feel about Boston too). Mostly, just kinda sad that it doesn't stand out more. I think DC is still my fave city on the east coast. Though I'm open to trying the West Coast someday soon at least on a visit basis if not more. Warm weather all year, I'll take that in exchange for no seasons (my cousin is just a dweeb).

OMG...yesterday found the best place for lunch. The Oak Tree something or other. Yum! Salad was great even as I ate around the pieces of corn they threw in w/ the grilled veggies..but they had smoothies I can eat! Never knew if one w/ OJ, ice, and fruit would be as good as ones made with milk, but yuuummm! In fact, may go back today too:) And they had bread I could eat! A tad expensive, but for bread I can eat and such I'll take it (ten bucks for decent sized salad with 6 or 7 strips of chicken). *drool*

Have also decided that well written books can be a bad thing. Decided to try an Octavia Butler novel based on some stuff I'd read about her (sorry, never grabbed before because I was either Heinlein obsessed at the time or just not drawn by the cover art) and wow. Got Kindred because that was all Walden's had (aka bookstore ran for the illiterate) but wow. I mean, fairly long novel but written so well that I'm 3/4 the way through it after 6 hours (yes, I read too goddamn fast. 15 bucks and it's not even going to last me 2 days). And was amazed to realize that I have yet to "skim" over a portion at all! i do that whenever I'm so enthralled w/ story that I want to know what happens but need to get past sciency descriptions/long narratives about the landscape (die Lamour, die!). So in love with this book. go and buy and read if you haven't already. Absolutely fabulous. And totally makes me cringe when I think about my sad, wimpy novel ideas. So intimidated.

Oh...also gave into geekness yesterday and showed some fanvids to a couple of my friends. One of them is hogobach who I hooked on the series and the other two have yet to be converted. Showed them Kestrel's yosaff vid w/ I Will Survive. hogobach was blown away w/ the ... well I guess you'd call it choreography of the images to the music. He totally gives you props. Then I showed them cassiee's Hidden Exchanges vid that she just did recently since you don't really have to be familiar w/ the series to get a kick out of it. Again, much enjoyment all around. And hogobach was impressed w/ the image manipulation. So yeah......my friends all think I'm a complete and utter nerd now...but one of them went w/ me to nerd school so she already knew that.

No firm plans for NY's yet. Coordinating groups is always so difficult and made more so by fact that I continually dread standing around a party knowing no one and being trapped until the friend I'm staying w/ is ready to leave. Hopefully hogobach and I will convince her to go party hopping. Course I just dread parties on principle any more too since I can't really do too much drinking depending on whether the alcohol is cornfree and eating is generally out of question too. Should go to the grocery store I found yesterday and buy some of the artisan bread I saw they had...and stay far away from the cookies I binged on yesterday in case they were cause of any headaches:P

So that's pretty much all. May be getting my hair finally cut later today, dunno, probably bad day to try it. And sooo nervous about it. Want a new hairstyle but I'm notorious for hating any new hairstyle. But sooo sick of the two I've been swapping back and forth w/ for a while now. Hopefully one of the two I sorta like will work w/ my face shape. stupid too round face. stupid fine but incredibly frigging thick hair.

Will be emailing this post to all my friends

Okay people, this may sound odd but bare with me. I highly recommend that everyone buy or at least browse through this book at their local bookstore: The Food Allergy Cure: A new solution to food cravings, obesity, depression, headaches, arthritis, and fatigue by Dr. Ellen Cutler. I'm not generally the type to promote "miracle" cures, mostly because my science background makes me highly sceptical of even mainstream medicine, but if this delivers on its promises, I will let you know. Some of the points she makes actually explain a bit more than my allergy problems and make me hope that maybe I can turn myself into a normal functioning human (as in one that doesn't suffer from mood swings simply based on well nothing and capable of actually experiencing excitement).

And seriously, I really do think that very little of this book is junk after reading through it (a bit repetitive, but hey, just flip to the section that deals w/ your problem and you know you won't be missing much). Now then to convince Brian to do acupupressure on me.