*sigh*

[serai]

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Okay, back now. Sorry about the freakout, but you guys are really the only people in my life I can cry to. Pathetic, I know. Thanks to those of you who were so kind about it. HUGS BACK

Since then:

1) HOLY SHIT, SCALIA'S DEAD.

2) I got weed poisoning on Thursday night. I was sitting at my computer, watching a movie and toking the way I usually do, which is taking a hit or two maybe every twenty minutes or so until I'm at just the right level. Usually when I smoke too much, I just end up falling asleep in my chair and then waking up and going off to bed, but this time... hoo, boy. After just a few tokes, I got hit with a MASSIVE wave of dizziness and nausea. Nearly fell out of the chair and ended up crawling to the bathroom, where I threw up a few times and then slept curled up next to the toilet, because I couldn't get up from the dizziness. I'm still feeling a bit of it - the dizziness, that is - but it's passing. I've only been able to eat some slices of whole wheat bread and drink seltzer, but I had a fruit smoothie today and I'm almost back to normal now. Gods, that was awful. The only other time that happened to me was a couple of years ago when I took a Vicodin for my shoulder and forgot to eat first. NIGHTMARE TIME.

3) I can't write that story I mentioned. It's just much too close to my emotions at the moment and far too painful for me to actually enter it now. I'm still taking notes, and want to wait until I get some distance before I try to write it, mostly because of the pain but also because I'm not completely certain it's actually a good story - it may just be a scream I need to scream. It's hard to tell for me, because so many of my stories come out of my own life and emotions, are ways to express things I'm feeling or grappling with in real life. But no, this one has to wait awhile. It's okay, though, because like I said earlier, it's a one-off, not part of High Contrast, so letting it go for a time won't affect anything else I'm writing.

4) HOLY SHIT, SCALIA'S DEAD.

5) Looking forward to John Oliver coming back tomorrow night. Anyone seen Samantha Bee's new show? She is SO awesome, and she's having a fucking great time with this. And MAN, is she vicious - it's utterly glorious. I think I may be crushing on her now that she's doing her own thing and not that Fox News Bunny character that she did on TDS, which was a wonderful caricature, but I didn't like her much. She's so much better as herself. <3 <3 <3

6) Drum Tao was on Stephen's show the other night. I have such intense desire to see these guys live. They'll be here in March, but I haven't got the money or anyone to go with. *sigh* Maybe someday...

Fullscreen that puppy and TURN IT UP TO ELEVEN.

7) I'm tired of writing angst. Somebody give me a prompt I can mess around with to take the taste of tears out of my mouth.

8) HOLY SHIT, SCALIA'S DEAD.


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Comments

[yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that Drum Tao video. They're fantastic and I sent the video to two friends in Japan to see if they were familiar with the group.

I absolutely adore John Oliver and I'm so glad he'll be back tomorrow night. I don't know about Samantha Bee, but I'll check her out.

Sounds like you got a bad batch of weed. So sorry it made you sick. You can vent here anytime. LJ friends are wonderful sympathizers.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

I've been dying to see a taiko group ever since the first one to tour the States back in the 80's. But theater is just SO DAMN EXPENSIVE.

John's the best. I'm sure he's going to have a field day with the ridiculous wingnut reactions to Scalia's death. Hell, all the late night comics are going to plow in with vigor, I'm sure. Mitch McConnell didn't even wait five MINUTES after the announcement before declaring that his party would block any nominations. FEH.

Not sure if it was a bad batch. My BiL took some of the same purchase and he hasn't reported any problems. Now that I think about it, I didn't bring up hardly anything when I vomited, and I remember I hadn't eaten before smoking, so it was probably that. Though that's certainly never happened to me with weed before. Guess I'll have to be more careful not to smoke on an empty stomach. Guess I'm gettin' old, ma! Now where'd I put m' damn teef?

Thanks for the sympathy, hon. It's great to have somewhere to do, even if it's through a computer screen.

[addie71.livejournal.com]

Wow. Sorry to hear you were so sick. I hope you're doing a lot better today.

I wish I could see Jon Oliver's new show, but I won't pay the extra for HBO for one show. :(

I really enjoyed Drum Tao the other night and was very jealous of the studio audience.

That was a shocker about Scalia. It will be interesting to see what happens now. Mitch McConnell and other Republicans are wanting the new appointment to wait until the next President is in office.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

I am better, actually, though there's still a slight bit of yuck around the edges. I think I have to swear off the really heavy weed and go for the lighter outdoor-grown strains.

You don't have to pay to watch John's show. It's put up at Youtube in pieces every week. Look for the "Last Week Tonight" channel and subscribe. :)

Drum Tao: INORITE? I've been dying to take in that energy ever since the first taiko group to tour the States came here in the 80's.

The interwebz are blazing with this whole Scalia thing. Maybe now we'll stop hearing all this IF BERNIE DOESN'T GET NOMMED IMA TAKE MY BALL AND GO HOME nonsense. Shit just got way more real here.

[addie71.livejournal.com]

It's put up at Youtube in pieces every week. Look for the "Last Week Tonight" channel and subscribe.

Thanks! I didn't know that. :DDDD

[serai1.livejournal.com]

There's a ton of vids on that channel already, so enjoy! (He also produces spots exclusively for the YT channel.)

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Hope you're feeling better today!! I wonder what happened? I wonder if your immune system was just down and freakd out or something...

Thank goodness he died during Obama's watch, although I know the Republicans will do everything they can to prevent another nomination...

*hugs*

[serai1.livejournal.com]

I am feeling better, thanks, hon. I thought about it, and I think it has to do with my not eating much before I smoked. Although that's never happened before, my body may have reached some kind of limit and is telling me to slow the fuck down with the weed already. I'm going to wait until I'm all better, and then try to smoke a little to see what happens. I sure hope I don't have to quit. It's the only thing that really helps my incipient arthritis without having that same horrible effect. *sigh*

They're already caterwauling about how they refuse to confirm anybody. Hell, there are dozens of lower court appointments that have been left hanging just because these assholes refuse to do their fucking JOBS.

HUGS BACK

[danae_b]

*gigantic hugs* I'm so behind on the reading half of LJ, I'm so sorry. That sounds so scary, but it kidn of reminds me of the time I misread how much vicodin I should be taking and had four in four hours and.... Yeah >.>

*more hugs*

A possible non-tasty prompt? How about 'tasting something new', be it food or drink or whatever.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon! I still feel kind of yucky - a vague sense of nausea around the edges - but I'm getting better.

Hm, that's interesting. Tasting... Well, my boys do seem to be pretty oral, so I'll play around and see if I can get something out of them on the subject. >:)

[danae_b]

*hugs* Good <3

And yay, I hope it inspires :D I'd love to see what you come up with~

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you got so sick. That's miserable. Hope you're doing okay now.

Thank you for that video. Golly, they were fantastic. I've never heard of them before. I love percussion, and they deliver it in spades. Have you ever seen Stomp? It's a group of dancers and musicians who use ordinary objects like brooms and trash cans and buckets to make outrageous music. It wore me out just watching them, and this group is like that. They work mighty hard.

I'd like to see one of the boys trying something he's never done before, and the other teaching him. Like skating? Dancing?