“pleased to Meetro…hope you guess my name…”

MSN, AIM, YIM can all step aside now that Meetro is here. like the others, you can use Meetro to IM other people, but here’s the kicker: you’ll be able to tell how many other users are within say, 1/4 mile of you, 5 miles of you, or whatever parameters you set. looking for people for a pick-up basketball game? to go clubbing? or to–heh–plain hook up with? log on to Meetro and see who’s nearby!

not only that, you’ll be able to log on to some of your other IM accounts through Meetro. how can you beat that?

it’s free to download and super easy to use, so check it out!

how fucked up is it when a frickin’ protein shake is what keeps me from getting out of bed? well, that’s what happened today, though i did get up after noon.

my sleep schedule has been completely screwed up, so of course i didn’t get up in time to go to martial arts. even if i had, i probably wouldn’t have made it anyway, because to my thinking, the longer i stayed in bed, the longer i could delay having to drink that protein shake.

at my chiropractor appointment yesterday, i somehow let him talk me into getting another tub of protein shake mix. originally, i was only supposed to finish 1 tub. then, i ended up getting a second tub because my insurance pays for supplements. if i thought the first mix tasted nasty, omg. the second one i bought, which was a different type, was a million, zillion times worse. so yesterday, i ended up buying another tub of the original stuff.

i’ve been having a hard enough time getting out of bed as it is, and my therapist identified the reason correctly: i’m avoiding something. today it was the shake. i know it sounds silly, but there was all of this anxiety wrapped up with it. with Brian’s reassurance, i ended up not drinking it. he reminded me that my therapist suggested i work on only one change at a time, after all.

in addition, my allergies were really bad when i woke up. gee, it’s a good thing i’m in the late stages of allergy symptoms or whatever imagine how much more awful i would have felt if the allergens affected me normally.

anyway, i had the worst headache, i was still very sleepy, and felt all around run down. not only did i not make it to martial arts, i didn’t make it to my therapist appointment, either. well, at least i called and got to talk to her for a bit. she reminded me about the one change at a time thing, and we rescheduled for my regular Friday time next week.

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i tried to watch ‘the excorcist’ the other night, but it is still a no-go, apparently. it’s still too creepy, although i did actually watch the pea-soup scene for the first time!

tell us what creeps you out….

1. animal (did you see those new baby pandas? kinda creepy!)

anything from the deep, deep sea

2. book
anything self-published

3. film
Candyman

4. family member
an uncle on my mom’s side

5. co-worker (past or present, including bosses & maintenance workers)
more than a few fellow teaching assistants when i was in grad school, particularly PhD students who hadn’t finished their dissertations though they had long ago run out of funding

6. food (pears creep my husband out…. ??????)
anything that remotely looks the same cooked as it does when it’s alive, or that you have to dig into its shell for the meat; usually sea food

7. computer-related game, software, image, operating system, hardware bit, video, etc.
how about a Web site?  awfulplasticsurgery.com creeps me out in a good way!

8. culture or cultural practise (remember – i’m not asking you to rag on a culture, but most people would agree cannibalism is a little creepy)
cannibalism’s pretty hard to beat

i managed to get out of bed and get myself to my therapist appointment amazingly enough, since i had trouble falling asleep. we talked about all those lifestyle changes the stupid doctors want me to make, and she asked me what one change did i want to do, that i think i could realistically accomplish. going back to martial arts, i said. so she said to just concentrate on that one thing. don’t worry about going on a dairy- and gluten-free diet, and all that other stuff. just one thing. fine with me.

afterwards, i met Brian for lunch at the Weber Grill. it’s a chain, but i’d never been there, and it was good. it’s so nice that he’s working downtown now at his new job, which means we can actually have lunch together. he also gets home at a normal hour and isn’t so beat from driving through traffic or taking the Metra from the suburbs. since i have my therapist appointment at the same time each week, Brian and i decided to meet for lunch every Friday. last year we tried making Fridays “date night,” but his office was way too far to drive to. there and back? forget it. now, it’s so much easier. how nice for us to be able to do things as a couple besides buying cat food and taking out the trash!