Year: 2013
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: february eve :
Are you as weary of the cold, gray, cheerless days as I am? Of course you are. Well, take heart: the worst is behind us. Okay, not officially or anything, but according to my own personal calendar spring will be here, rain or shine, on March first. So we’re more than halfway there. Yay! What…
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: the thyroid report :
You know what I miss? I miss the days when I was blissfully unaware of the endocrine system. When I knew nothing of the secret, clandestine workings of the thyroid gland and its wicked hormones. Those were good days, really good days, but they’re gone forever. You see, the thyroid is the master gland of…
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: brrr :
It’s 3:30 in the afternoon, 19º with a wind chill that makes it feel like 6º, and at some point during the night the world froze solid. We’ve been glazed. Coated. Frosted. Does anyone remember Doctor Zhivago? Well, today’s a page out of that book. The weather geniuses had been predicting a snowfall of 1…
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: the year in review :
Let me be among the first to welcome you to 2013, ladies and gentlemen. I’ll go about it quietly, no noisemakers or fireworks, in case you celebrated too enthusiastically last night. Deal? Wow, can you even see out of those eyes? They’re so bloodshot. Could I get you an aspirin? Help you to a chair?…
the whirly girl 