Everydaystranger

I am not in great shape. I feel pretty depressed about it all, too. I don

I’m home now – was busted out at about 4 pm today as there isn’t anything more we can do besides stay on antibiotics for the remainder of the pregnancy, take it easier, (am on “light duties” now), hope I don’t go into labor, and try to sleep. Oh, and take copious amounts [...]

Good thing I was so paranoid I got a bridge of antibiotics.
I am back in the hospital, after a night of bathtub screaming razor blade peeing. I was admitted as this time I was having contractions, to the tune of 1 every 3 minutes (which in labor speak means ‘baby coming NOW’). I [...]

I have a new thing that pregnant women shouldn’t be allowed to do – oh sure, you’ve probably heard that pregnant women shouldn’t drink or smoke, that unpasteurized cheese is probably not a good idea and that whole “bungee jumping” idea should be shelved for a few months. But in my personal experience, there [...]

This morning I finish off the last of my antibiotics. I

So I lay in bed last night, tossing and turning, because this is what I do. I only get about 5 hours of sleep a night, despite needing to sleep so badly I’m prepared to wipe out entire urban planning centers in order to get some. I imagine it’ll be like I’m Mike [...]

Yesterday I was reading a news article on-line (this is our morning tradition, really. We’re both pathetic and sad and we drink our coffee and read the morning news online, he in the study and me on my work laptop with my feet up on the couch. One of us will make breakfast [...]

Today I made my way up to London, dredging myself through the station and up the wide streets of the suburbs. Autumn is definitely on its way

One of the projects I am running has a team of engineers installing equipment in a very dark physical location. I imagine what it’s like to be in their space sometimes, and when I imagine it, I can feel it all. The spark of the drill as they lay it on the stone. [...]

Things keep getting destroyed around me.
I have been going through a bit of a thing lately. I find I

Beach Girl recently sent me a few articles on names. Now, I find names to be very, very interesting, and not just because I

Today we trooped to the hospital for our 28 week scan (even though I’m 29 weeks tomorrow. Somehow, we got off track by a week. I blame society.) and to meet our consultant and the one who will deliver the twins, the one we call Dr. Charisma, the IVF doctor who, peering at [...]

I was reading in bed last night, curled on my side with my very attractive nursing pillow propping my shoulders up (nursing pillows are shaped like horseshoes and have a secondary feature which makes them rock-they go between the legs to try to keep you laying on your side. Somehow I wind up on [...]

It’s a bright sunny day outside (finally!) and Melissa’s curled up on the couch, watching the end of Braveheart. Angus is upstairs doing some work, but my email is being uncooperative and the VPN isn’t letting me log in for long.
And I am not feeling very well at all today.
Something else has been eating [...]

As I’ve blogged before I have a completely pointless Bachelor’s Degree in anthropology. I loved my courses but there’s nothing less useful in the real world than the ability to recite the names and reigns of all of the Egyptian pharoahs or the origins of the australopithecines. Cool to study and it means [...]

Some mornings you wake up and things just go wrong from the moment you sit up in bed. Maybe it

I had a post ready to go today about the extension (betcha’ you’re glad I didn’t have that one ready yet) but the weekend threw me a curveball.
Saturday night – less than 36 hours after completing my prescribed round of antibiotics – a new infection came back and took me down. I was hit [...]

It’s one of those awful Friday bullet point days, which you probably hate but I’m not doing “stream of consciousness” very well today, so…um…sorry.
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My visa application is doing my head in, for two big reasons:
1) I cannot find my college diploma anywhere, and unfortunately I kinda’ need to send it in. You would think [...]

Life for me is not all grand, exciting trips around the Scottish Hebrides, black tie dinners, and dramatic hospital recoveries. The black tie dinners have dried up now that I’m on much less prestigious projects – but less prestigious means far less stress and less having to work 6 days a week for 16 [...]

31 August 2007
Choices-And Not Just a Chi-Chi Name for an Insurance Programme
I’m home now. I have been dwelling in the Eternal Land of Suckvile for three days, and finally busted loose in a blaze of NHS tea and lactated ringers late yesterday.
This hospital stay was the worst yet. It was bad because I [...]