Left Brain, Right Brain

Hehe - I kept a close log of what was happening on Friday night when I was feeling SO sick... This laptop is so fun - I just popped open a notepad doc and jotted down things as they occurred to me. Looking at it now, it's mostly a temperature log. Dig it:

came home from work @ 3:30 due to sheer exhaustion - last dose of 2 ibuprofen was at noon

5:00 felt very cold - goosebumps. Temperature = 100.0

5:15 called parents

5:30 temp = 99.5

6:00 temp = 101.3 - called Jon - took 3 ibuprofen

I will need Jon to bring Tylenol for me to take with the ibuprofen to control the fever, and Aleve (which lasts 12 hours) to get through the night

6:20 temp = 101.3 but now I feel hot, not cold anymore

6:37 temp = 101.5

6:48 temp = 100.8

7:26 temp = 99.5

8:30 temp = 99.5

9:00 temp = 98.6

9:25 took 2 ibuprofen - temp is still 98.6 - I think the fever has broken. Still feel like hell.

Funny. Today is the 4 year anniversary of that night I really did almost die from that hellish fever that Darren and Dr. Hushka and all my awesome nurses saved me from. I really really will write more about it when I get the time. As for now, I should have been in bed an hour ago.

I did not go to work today. I had some major intestinal problems this weekend. I am exhausted. And now I feel even worse because I hate not going to work. I just worry constantly that the place is going to fall apart without me, or at least MY stuff will fall apart because I am not there to take care of it. Plus, I worry that the people who will have to be covering for me while I am not there will be resentful.

So ultimately, all the stress of worrying about work while I'm not there actually makes me SICKER. I hate how sensitive my body can be to emotional stress. It's bad enough dealing with the mental and emotional burdens of stress, but the physical is just pushing it over the edge of tolerability. I am going nuts.

Gah. I am just about OBSESSED with iTunes (it really is super slick), but there are 2 problems with it. 1) It has CRAP for visualizations compared to the MilkDrop plugin for WinAmp, but at least that's not TOO important; and 2) My Semagic client for LJ can't recognize songs I am listening to in iTunes. It can recognize what's playing in WinAmp and WMP and I would guess a few others like RealPlayer and stuff, but no iTunes support! That is not actually important either, but just kind of irritating. So if I want my current music to be displayed on an entry, I have to remember to manually type it in! It's not that I'm lazy, cuz it's easy enough to do, but I always forget about that or am too eager to just WRITE and POST.

I like Semagic. I like that if I am writing and the system needs a reboot or the program crashes or freezes up as it can sometimes do when I try to preview an entry, everything I had written (even if I didn't actively save it) is still completely intact there! I don't know how it does it, but I like like like it a lot, especially after talking to Jon and other people who do LJ straight thru their web browser which can be a real bitch if you accidentally click a link someone sends you or something, or if your browser crashes or whatever.

Speaking of browsers, I am still totally proselytizing the virtues of Mozilla Firefox all over the place. The only issue that REALLY gets on my nerves (and Jon's too - we spent a good amount of time bitching about it) is that the URL bar just keeps addresses in the order in which you entered them! So that means that the things you visited first in Firefox are at the bottom of the list, and the recent stuff that you just entered because someone mentioned it or whatever, that's always at the TOP of the list! And no matter how often you visit your favorite site, it is always going to be at the BOTTOM of the list. Really dumb. That's the only thing that IE has over Firefox as far as I'm concerned. Tabbed browsing is where it's at, and the AdBlock feature is beauty. Plus it has lots and lots of really neat and useful plugins and extensions, and it's SKINNABLE (not everyone cares about that, but it's still neat-o IMHO.)

OK, I gotta go. The bathroom calls yet again.

**EDIT**
w00t - I found the preference where I can allow Semagic to recognize iTunes. Never mind the above rant! Now all I don't like is that trash they think can pass as Visualizations.