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Ears are going kind of bad again, I'm back to thinking I may need a doctor. The pain is actually more severe this round when it comes, though it seems to sort of vanish then reappear kind of inexplicably... sleeping (laying down?) seems to make it incline away. I'm getting disturbed, as well, by noticing my hearing isn't the same as usual -- like I...
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Okay, throat, teeth and head are better! Ears are still a little plugged feeling but I think that will fix itself too, at this rate. And just think, if I had been able to see a GP yesterday I would probably be attributing feeling better to whatever medicine they gave me, and would have spent 70+

Still, I'm playing it safe and taking it easy...
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So sometime around Tuesday or Wednesday I came down with an ear infection. In my usual habit I waited to see if it would go away. Friday I noticed it seemed to be getting worse. Last night was when I concluded it's definitely doing the opposite of getting better, and instead the infection seems to be spreading all over the right side of my skull,...
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It apparently takes a cider and a Long Island Iced Tea to increase the number of men I've kissed in my whole life from 2 to 5.

So I started out writing a novel, but then realized I don't really like writing novels and began writing it as a screenplay instead, because that's what I'm better at.

But the story is making a really crap screenplay because the premise is that most of the trouble is just being imagined by the main character (appropriate for a novel), so there's not much tension...
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Set up an account at Redbubble... right now it's all Edinburgh photos (and only a few, it takes a while to upload them.) I'm trying to stick to things I can imagine people would want to pay $70 for a print of... right now there are only a couple HQ enough for posters, most would have to be largeish photos or postcards.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/godgifu

My $20 of spices arrived today -- good day to have arrived, too, as it allowed me to make cardamom and pepper spiced tea soon as I got home (just the thing for when it's so horribly cold out as it was... the little puddles and birdbaths in the Meadows were all icing over.) I also have a giant tub of basil to use now....
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I wonder if I should sneak through the house, turn off the vents on all the other radiators but the one in my own room, then just blast the heat and that way no one will know it's on or turn it off when they go to bed (even if I'm still up) or turn it off because they're too hot but I'm not.

I've...
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Today I learned that Cream of [Anything] soup basically just starts out as more White Sauce. I learned this from another blog that consists of nothing but public domain soup recipes.

I also went to the Elephant House Restaurant and drank overpriced hot chocolate (how did JK Rowling afford it when she was poor?) and discovered an Indian/Arab grocery I'll be visiting more often called...
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My dad had sent me a little money to go out here and there, I guess he was tired of hearing about me sitting home alone all night. So this evening I went out and had 3 girly sort of martinis at a place called Centrotre. I had a Miss Martini which was vodka,Chambord, raspberries, cream and syrup; an Espresso Martini of espresso, Kahlua, and...
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Today ate:

about half a loaf of French bread with butter and/or honey
buttered tortilla
aloo saag
a ham and egg wrap
a Scotch Mist and a Hot Toddy
plus the usual quantities of sweetened creamed tea

It was horrible weather outside but I made myself go out on the basis that if I was just going to stay in all the time I may...
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