Friday, May 06, 2005

My sweetie

Isn't he adorable?

Thursday, May 05, 2005

A brief history of self

... through pharmaceuticals.

1997 - Xanax, Zoloft (before the cute "bouncing ball" commercials)
1998 - Xanax
1999 - Xanax
2000 - Xanax, Prozac
2001 - Ativan, Prozac
2002 - Ativan, Lexapro, Depakote, Sonata
2003 - Amitriptyline, Sonata
2004 - Lexapro, Seroquel
2005 - Lexapro, Seroquel

Interestingly enough, the only drug I've taken for depression was the Zoloft. I had just started my freshman year at the University of Iowa, set in the anthropology degree track, and I was engaged to someone that I loved, but didn't like very much. The Xanax (and later Ativan) was for anxiety, something that I've struggled with ever since I was a child. The Prozac and Lexapro are SSRIs that can be used to treat depression and anxiety, but I'm taking them to combat some of the physiological effects of fibromyalgia. The Sonata and Seroquel are merely sleeping aids, necessary again because of the fibromyalgia. And lastly, the Depakote, normally a medicine to counteract epilepsy, which I took for a time because of intense, inexplicable headaches.

And that is my history in pharmaceuticals.

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Not everyone is an asshole

Since the last time I've posted, The Boy and I have seen Glenn Tilbrook (former frontman of the English pop band Squeeze) perform with his new band, The Fluffers, we have participated in two different record shows (one of them sponsored by The Store, the other in Omaha, NE), and have seen Neil Hamburger perform live.

It has been a busy couple of weeks, fraught with many little wierdnesses. And last night, I dropped a window on my foot. It was still in the frame, so at least I didn't lose toes in the matter. Unfortunately, it's still rather swollen, and it hurt like the fire of a thousand hells after that rude pane of wood-enclosed glass used it as a landing pad.

Word to the wise - don't apply the greatest possible downward force, one-armed, to a window that's sticking in its tracks. Instead, be smart, and rub a dry bar of soap along the insides of the tracks after pushing the window up as far as you can. You too can save yourselves the agony of de feet.

Okay, even I'm groaning at that one.