Layla

I don't have a problem with any of the superstar/diva relationships, but this whole AJ thing is annoying the hell out of me! Whenever I here her theme in the middle of a match, I go get a cheese grater to numb the pain. And who wants to watch a pretty young woman play tonsil tennis with a mask wearing middle-aged man, a guy with more ink than skin and a bloke with a dodgy beard?

P.S - You think I should make a separate thread for pro-wrestling discussion?

A couple of days ago, I turned in notice at my part time job. I'm officially leaving the service industry (hopefully for good) and when the fall semester at the university starts, I'll be a teaching assistant! I'll be grading assignments for a professor, debugging starting student's programs, and assisting a graduate student run a lab!

WOO HOO !!! Finally leaving that job you hated, and this new position sounds right up your alley !!!

Yay, KC, congratulations!

KC, I remember when you told me about your upcoming fall gig as a TA. That is wonderful news to have such a relevant and productive job while you are going to school! Congrats again and I know you are looking forward to it.

This post has been edited by Acadian: Jul 22 2012, 05:29 PM

*Applauds heartily*...

Well done old chap!!... ...

Congrats...

Well done, I hope you enjoy the new placement!

Anyone looking for an interesting read should check out this site. It's a catalogue of wierd "Area-51" objects, some are creepy and others are ingenious. Give it a read if you're bored!

Couldn't be sure what I was seeing, lol.

Well today I found out my girlfriend's moving to Paris for nine months, next week.

Sad times.

Sorry to hear that. Short notice.

I know right!

I can't even be angry because her new job's really cool -.-

Just being in Paris is really cool, lol. I hope she won't be driving in the city, the traffic in Paris is horrendous, especially those traffic circles! Congrats to her, sympathy for you being left alone and lonely. Long distance calls are outrageous without an international plan. Don't suppose you could traipse along or stowaway in her bags?

What's she going to be doing?

And you will of course have to find a way to visit her. That might involve some elaborate plans if you are short on funds. That would be so cool!

This post has been edited by King Coin: Jul 26 2012, 07:52 PM

There was an audition in Leeds to become a Disney princess, and on a whim she went and got it!

She's Sleeping Beauty and Jessie from Toy Story, and she has to travel to all the disney worlds.

We were both going to uni in October so it was going to happen anyway, but still.

I've been absent for a while (again), so I have a lot to catch up on (and comment on over in the fan fics).

First off, let me send up congrats to all who deserve it, and condolences to all who need it.

I've been busy with my MBA classes as well as my part-time job. It's been going well on both those fronts.

My health, however, hasn't been doing so well. I've been dealing with a chronic cough for years. Mostly it's just a lingering cough that hangs around for weeks after I recover from a cold. But it's become more persistent this year, and other things came up - shortness of breath, a feeling of tightness in my chest when I try to take deep breaths (and no, my bra's not too tight ), and getting sick for no reason (no one around me is sick, as is typical with colds and flus). When I got sick about six weeks ago, it really began to affect my job as well as other things. I coughed when I talked, I coughed when I climbed half a flight of stairs (and I used to run up a full flight), hell, I even coughed when I just turned over in my sleep! I started getting stabbing pains low in my right ribs when I breathed (likely pulled intercostal muscle from coughing so damn much).

So I finally schlep off to the doctor. She initially suspects asthma and starts me on three different medications. The tight feeling and shortness of breath as well as the pain improved right away, but the cough took a little while to improve. At my two-week followup, she wasn't happy with the progress I was making (though I was!), so sent me for a lung function test and chest radiographs. The first was essentially normal, the second showed radiographic changes consistent with pneumonia, so I went on antibiotics while continuing the one inhaler and the pill for the asthma (more for allergies and anti-inflammatory effect than real asthma). Coughing improved dramatically at that point, but on follow up radiographs there are two spots on my lungs that the radiologist suspects may be cancer. So off I went for a CT scan yesterday. Results are pending.

I doubt it is cancer - I don't smoke (well, except for two puffs on my dad's pipe when I was three years old). I am much more suspicious of fungal infection that has become walled off (though TB is also a possibility). I know I've been exposed to some nasty mold in the past, so my gut feeling says that's the problem. However, we all know the saying, doctors make their own worst patients, so . . .

I probably will be going to a pulmonologist in the near future, so I don't know what will happen next. Hopefully this will get resolved soon and I can get back to Old Habits Die Hard.

Sorry to hear you are sick. The first thing I thought of was either mold or mildew just from the progression as you described it. I hope you get feeling better and it turns out to be nothing serious or expensive !!!

I was wondering where ye'd been off to...

That's just nasty... ...

I occaisionally have trouble with me hayfever...(Yeees, the crushing irony of a farmer with chronic hayfever....)...So I can imagine that you're not having the most fun... ...

Get well soon...

I’m sorry to hear you’ve been ill, haute. Hopefully it will be something that’s easy to diagnose and resolve. A walled-off past infection sounds good to me, the important word being “past.” Here's hoping you get excellent news very soon!

Yikes, Rider! Thanks for the update so we could change our worrying from wondering what happened to you to hoping you get well now! Warmest wishes for a speedy recovery.