One down, three to go on my Thai bloggers meet list. I met with Steve Suphan–I mean, Stephen Cleary–last night just a block from my house. We had some beer and chat and listened to the house band. Fuckin’ impeccable Free Bird from a band that started out covering some cheesy 80s stuff. I was amazed. It was good to get out of the house, talked to someone frankly about my mom for a change. Thai culture is superstitious. You know how I have been talking about the impending death of my mother here? If my family or the aunties...
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I dread the flight tonight in many ways. First, I’m scared to see mom. I’m scared to face the reality that everyone else back home has been facing for so long. I’m scared that I wouldn’t be able to handle it and fall apart all over the place. I’m scared that I may not want to leave her side. I’m just fucking scared. Period. And then, I’m scared my eardrums are going to blow up due to my serious sinus infection. Heck, my ears had trouble equalizing coming down 34 floors earlier today. I’m still taking my Sudafed, Tylenol and...
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Sinus infection + exhaustion due to stress = crazy ass sore throat, cough and fever spike. “No fever yet?” my doctor asked this morning. “Just low grade,99.7 or so,” I said. “Oh. It’s going to get a lot worse,” she said. And she was right. Around 1 p.m. I clocked in at 102.2. I think I broke my own record there. I’m on this super strength once a day antibiotics which makes me queasy. Sudafed to help clears the ears so I can fly. Airborne and antioxidant mango juice from Trader Joe’s to keep up the fight. And Tylenol to...
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I thought after this weekend of activities–AIDS Walk, graduation dinner, and the wake–I would get to relax and pack like a mad woman. Wrong. The only thing that relaxed was my immune system, it seemed. Kids. I’m sitting here with a sore throat and zero energy. And it’s T-minus 2 days. I am seeing my doctor tomorrow morning. And running to Office Depot to buy more address labels I completely screwed up today at work because I was fighting to get through the day and get things done. And running to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription. Then running...
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Because my brain doesn’t function any more, I’m just going to write whatever came to mind somewhat in a chronological order. I baked last night. The cupcakes were a massive hit at the company birthday party which was immediately after the early meeting we set up. Will blog at HmmFoodGood later. I had the early big meeting this morning. My alarm was set for 4:45 a.m. I was up around 1:30 a.m., then 2:45 a.m. and then 4 a.m. I picked up the Weevils t-shirts from Mario, Celeste’s brother. They’re awesome. I realized that I have become very cynical about...
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I am 8 days before I leave for home. Did I tell you that? Yes, I leave in the middle of next week and be back July 9. I don’t think I’ve ever been this busy before my trip in my life. Then again, that’s called being a responsible, hard working adult. And you wonder why most of the time I’d rather be a 6 year-old. Yesterday We got a call from Justin late in the evening. As it turned out, he couldn’t get the 4th of July week off after all and therefore he had to cancel the road...
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