voncookie | July 13, 2010
Every July, it seems, I experience some sort of hiccup during the first week or two, be it an episode of Batshit Insane, as it was in the late ’90s, or some sort of trauma (see the entries from July ’09 for more on that), or blatant physical illness, as it was this year. I [...]
voncookie | June 4, 2010
Sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been sick with a stomach flu since Wednesday, and it’s really been sucking the life out of me. I’m starting to feel better, though, and will resume my meditations on the mundane shortly. In the meantime… …the world is going to hell. Discuss.
voncookie | March 22, 2010
… and not in a *good* way. No Tom Cruise in RayBan sunglasses here. The risky business I’m talking about is what happens to students when you shut down the campus completely for Spring Break, put everyone on furlough, and refuse to open a single door, not one office. As we all know, I’m trying [...]
voncookie | November 23, 2009
Oh, Ibupr0fen in all your forms, thanks be for your existence. On days like today when I hurt from tip to toe, blessed be your orange caplets. I know not what I would do without you, and your Over-the-Counter ubiquity. My knees thank you, my head thanks you, and even my pinky finger that I [...]
voncookie | September 7, 2009
For those of you who aren’t in the know, I have somewhat recently come down with mono. I know, you all are thinking that only 15-year-olds get mono after sharing milkshake straws in the cafeteria, or making out under the bleachers by the Rec Field. Yeah, wrong. Sometime this summer, somehow I got mono. Don’t [...]
voncookie | June 14, 2008
It’s been hard for me to blog lately, because I’ve been under the spell of a weird illness. I’m dizzy a lot of the time, and/or nauseated, making it very hard for me to concentrate long enough to blog (or write in general, making my dissertation take a real hit). I’ve found that if I [...]
voncookie | May 22, 2008
Sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been very ill since Tuesday—some strange migraine that had me feeling constantly dizzy and required some heavy medication administered via I.V. in order to get it under control. This illness has delayed me in the process of putting the cap on the semester. Today I have to finish [...]
voncookie | January 9, 2008
Last night, my brain, like a punctured balloon, went “thhhhhhhpppppptttt!!!!!!!!!!!!” and refused to work anymore. And so, in lieu of writing more of my outline of the book I’m reading on the relationship between fascism and the Avant-garde , I Buffied with my friends. I’ve been very “swingy” lately, which means I’ve been doing things [...]
voncookie | January 7, 2008
I read an article on WebMD that offered some health advice that seemed pretty reasonable—common sense things that we hear all the time, packed into a neat little list titled “13 Healthy Habits to Improve Your Life”. Considering that my “Life-o-Meter” gave me only a score of 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 [...]
voncookie | November 15, 2007
My cold is now full-blown flu, and I am laid up in the Orange Apartment, exhausted and cranky. Not the best way to spend my last few days here. No, not at all. I’m going to sleep now, as I barely slept last night because I was so uncomfortable. I hope this gets better before [...]
