The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by punkrockhockeymom:

Xopher, in truth, my chuckle is rueful, but I am only so amused because our offended friend here has clearly bitten off much more than (s)he can chew with such a limited understanding of the legal framework and such a low, low threshold for outrage and self-righteousness. (S)he's clearly underestimated our hostess.

Oh, I just chuckle every time some fool posts a diatribe on the internets based on such a foolish idea of what constitutes "defamation."

Sarah W, I am just obsessive enough about alphabetizing that the thought of rearranging my books by color creeps me out a little bit. Hee!

Oh my God. I have to go home immediately and take Brave New World and 1984 OFF of the bookshelves with the other spec fic and put them on the bookshelf with the "mainstream lit."

I had no idea. Eek! I must stop categorizing my books according to their content.

Oh! Every year I want to go.

This year I have a story that is ALMOST finished. If I could find the time to finish it up, MAYBE I could make it happen...

...but I don't know how it ENDS. Which, it turns out, tends to be a problem in writing endings.

I'm SO cooking this over the weekend. Yum.

Hee. Clicking through a link in Neil Gaiman's Journal some year's back to Teresa's Slushkiller, and discovering Making Light, and this community, which led me to Live Journal. I was just fascinated by the Slushkiller thread, but that link led me to so much more, and I have a NUMBER of very good friends today that I met through here or Live Journal that I wouldn't otherwise have met. I have a blogroll full of smart folks I greatly admire that I never would have discovered.

Sounds hilarious that a person could go 34 years without having known there was such a thing as online fandom, or cons, or writers interacting with fans, or any of this, despite being SUCH a GEEK PRINCESS, but you know, it totally passed me by.

My life is very, very different now.

W00t! Puppy and I are about to commence reading it. Whee! Go Neil!

Kathryn @12:

I have now checked, and mine are zinc gluconate too. They appear to be the Rite Aid version of Cold-eez (although I'm not sure if I've spelled that brand name right).

I've been having serious immune system issues of late, and I will definitely use these while traveling, because my last bout of airplane gack was very unpleasant.

Patrick, I hope you feel better soon. Last week I took zinc cough drop thingies when I felt just how you feel now, 3x a day for 3 days, and I only felt sick for about 2. But they don't work at all for my ex. So YMMV.

Oh, Jim, this is so well timed, and not just in the obvious "Thanksgiving Is Next Week" sort of way. I won't go in to all of the angsty personal why's and how's, but really. Thanksgiving recipes are welcomed 'round PRHM's homestead right now. I was fixing to delve into the ML archives Friday night in time to shop on Saturday.

THANKS.

Bruce!! Patrick!! Xopher!!

I would feel so much better if even ONE of you were in my living room, so that every time any pundit spoke you could debunk in real time, without my having to post or refresh. Srsly. I think that in my daily life I am a non-panicky, logical, analytical thinker.

I'm going insane!

I have now MUTED the volume on CNN. But that means that we can't play the drinking game. Although I've got to go pick up Dylan at 9:00 from the ice rink. So I should probably wait to start drinking anyway.

Hockeymoms for Obama! Go Indiana, Go!!!

(Things will be infinitely better, I think, when I can replace the caffeine with wine)

I can't concentrate! I think I'm over-caffeinated! I need to get some work done! I should have planned better and taken the day off! Instead, I'm sitting at my desk spamming ell-jay and pretending to work.

(Yes, that *is* how it sounds inside of my brain right now. Exclamation points and all.)

I'm so sorry for your loss.

There has been too much lately.

What I'm currently making is no progress at all on my motion to dismiss. Ah, well.

I am trying to free up some time in my schedule to start writing again. And I've been trying to cook things *from scratch.*

BTW, re Terry at #5: Folks, if you want something nice for the wall, REALLY, Terry is the bomb. I bought a very fabulous matted print of a spectacular photo of a blue-footed booby and a lizard. It looks AMAZING on my wall. Once I get the budget sorted out again I'm going to save up for 2 more that sort of "match."

Kathryn @ 69:

You know, given the cost of that coverage, and given that it doesn't cover prescriptions, so I'd still be paying upwards of $1,000 a month for those, well, I likely wouldn't buy that coverage.

My meds have controlled me well enough since 1999 that I would pay for the meds and take my chances with the inevitable rest of it. Which would not be smart; eventually I'm sure to have another bad spell again, I'd have to forego the twice annually testing and maintenance appointments, and, sometimes, in addition to the asthma, I have other health problems. I would just have to risk that they would occur infrequently enough and be manageable enough that their costs would not top out the at least $24K per year it would cost for both the coverage AND the scripts.

But I couldn't afford *both* that coverage and the meds, and there isn't really a choice for me to *not* take the meds. So.

Oh. My. You know, this thread is really starting to freak me out. And I have a really good job. And mobility. And I'm still freaked out.

Cat:

I had years of regular ER trips and a couple of hospital stays before we found the right mix of medications for me.

Yes, this. ER visits sometimes 2x a month, twice yearly (at least) longer hospital stays. Several instances in which sainted EMS folk had to bring me back, and a four day stint on life support when I was 17.

My miracle is largely attributable to Serevent, which is like Advair, but a little different.

Once, when I was in my early 20s, back before I was put on my current set of meds in 1999, I had a job with insurance and prescription coverage (thank gods!), but a year-long pre-existing conditions exclusion. I got bronchitis the week before it expired and was hospitalized for nine days.

The bill, in 1991, was over $8,000 *after* charitable hospital write-offs. It went to collection.

Currently I pay about $200 per month in premiums and, like I said earlier, about $300 a quarter for the drugs. And I haven't been to an ER in nine years, although I do have expensive visits to a pulmonologist and regular pulmonary functions testing twice a year. Wonder how much *that* costs? Costs me $10.00 right now.

JJ Fozz at #25:

Here's hoping Palin gets a yeast infection so gnarly that she turns into the Pillsbury Dough Woman.

Seriously? I'm sorry, but I find that really offensive. I loathe everything that woman stands for, and as this thread shows there is *plenty* to criticize her for, but if we must wish disease upon her, could we please try a little harder to do so with imagery a bit less misogynistic?

Sounds just like a law firm to me. You know, based on *my* experience. I'm sure people from other industries or backgrounds could find a different analogy or parallels they remember.

Very insightful post, Teresa.

(Hope you're feeling well!)

PJ at 26:

There! That's it. I can marry money if my employer stops subsidizing health care benefits. *Why* didn't I think of that?

Rich man. That's what I need.

Takers? I am *so cute.* I'm high maintenance, though, particularly on the medical side of things.

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