The lack of posting lately can be attributed to, well, a mystery. Whatever has been plaguing my GI system is unidentifiable, except for its symptoms. The doctor is baffled by the CT results and a high white blood cell count, and I am immensely thankful for feeling well the last few days. After a few rounds of highly disorienting and nauseating drugs, I'm glad to be free of them, despite the understanding that I'm not really sure what's wrong with me.

So, a trip to a specialist, with the possibility of a highly undignified colonoscopy, awaits. It's not glamorous, but it does make me extremely grateful for health insurance. When I was without for a few months this summer I worried a little, but thinking about the costs of all the tests I've had recently, and may need soon, I can't imagine having to deal with the financial burden without insurance. Which makes me even more thankful that there may be healthcare reform on the horizon...I hope.

I find the political situation rather now really annoying, seeing as how I am very impatient, and am still waiting for the Obama shirt I ordered a while ago to arrive. I resolved the 5 shirts instead of 1 issue with my bank, sorry if that disappointed any of you.

Local politicians are once again raising the abortion ban flag, and I'm really struggling with it. I'm wondering if you can want something to be legal that you think is morally wrong and that you disagree with. Debates like this seem to foster so much hate, while it seems like more attention on sex education and prevention of unwanted pregnancies would be less divisive and more compassionate. I don't know...I'm still thinking about this one.

On a more random note, the medications I was on gave me very vivid dreams, which was also listed as a side effect along with suicidal thoughts, and something about murder... Anyway, I had one dream where my friends bought a condo. in a mall (awesome), and another where I went back to teaching and felt totally and completely fulfilled. That was weird.

So I'm back. Just in time for sun, which is good because I have been missing CA and my friends there intensely. At least some sun here gives me the hope of spring. Today I rediscovered my lawn, and all the snow melted off of my roof. O happy day.