headache, anyone?

So that's an image of my head, from a CT scan taken last month. You see that inky black trapezoidal area under my right eye? That's a sinus cavity, more or less clean. The darkness is the airy reaches of a healthy cavity with plenty of flow. On the left, however...you may have noticed some kind of grayness to it, with a little black spot in the middle? Well, that's what they call mucosal thickening, to a depth of about 2cm, according to the doctor. I've been having sinus headaches and infections for several months now. One of my co-workers tells me she gets tooth pains whenever she gets sinus infections, and if I had to guess, I'd say I do too. I've been having tooth pains on and off for like a year. Hello sinus occlusion. The doc thinks it's probably a chronic infection, so I'm on antibiotics (amoxicilin) for about 21 days and pseudovent for about as long, or longer. Both are just big ol' horse pills, too. Hope it works. That looks too ugly-gross to live with anymore.

wisdom from the mountain goats

"when you punish a person for dreaming his dream don't expect him to thank or forgive you"
-from his song "the best ever death metal band out of denton"

I don't feel something like this has happened to me, particularly, but I think I feel a strong sense of identification/empathy for the people portrayed in the song. The song outros on him singing "hail satan!" over and over. If you listen to the song enough times, and pay attention, you might catch yourself singing along. I feel like I can understand how singing that would be so cathartic for the poor guys stuck in the song. I find I have to be careful, though. It probably wouldn't do to be heard singing along. Certainly not at school.

Gives me an idea for a good mix cd-- 'beautiful blasphemies' and would include Lou Barlow's "Mary" (about the possibility that it was the boy next door who got Mary pregnant and to keep them both from trouble, she claims it's the child of God: "mary mary under veil of stars/you changed the world you broke my heart/thank you mary, you saved me too/they'd stone us both if they ever knew") Any other nominations?

vote tomorrow. please.

Even if you think it might not work. Consider Greg Palast's How they Stole The Mid Term Election, which he posted dated today.