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angela

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

"We are, as usual, the irregulars, and we must take our own line of action" - Sherlock Holmes, The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax

My Interests

Eternal academia, Arthurian legend, policy analysis,kripalu yoga, knitting, photography, urban finance, blue flowers, zines, the word intrametropolitan, my husband, my job and symmetrical book stackings. Also fond of wearing skirts that look like slices of cake, drinking tulsi tea, taking public transportation, building the city of to-morrow, sleeping in, watching tv shows on dvd, effecting real and visible change, and "going balls out" at the gym

I'd like to meet:

I just wanna see some palm trees. Go and try to shake away this disease.

Music:

mary timony, the mary timony band, helium, autoclave, the sundays, yes, rush, low, chris whitley, jethro tull, the cranes & the cocteau twins

Movies:

antonioni, bertolucci, buscemi, cronenberg, goddard, kar-wai, reed, reitman, shainberg, soderbergh, truffaut, welles. but none of them make sense to me without john cassavetes

Television:

the wire and the adventures, memoirs, casebook & return of (jeremy brett) sherlock holmes

Books:

good calories bad calories

Heroes:

alice paul, hazel carby, bryna sanger, john cassavetes, le corbusier, egon spengler, margaret cho, janeane garofalo, barbara grizzuti harrison, rose landrum-lee, henry marsh, john v. moeser, gavin newsom, gena rowlands, maggie walker, viola baskerville

My Blog

There will never be another time like this one

Today I as I was working on the second draft of my PDR, I wrote "most high-poverty" as in most high-poverty neighborhoods experience this or that, and Microsoft Word corrected it for me. Into "high-po...
Posted by angela on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:56:00 PST

unsatisfying

After 10 months, 6 trips to the ER, two surgeries and one night in the hospital, I think I'm about to have a diagnosis. I had a gastric emptying scan last week and um I have delayed gastric emptying. ...
Posted by angela on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:26:00 PST

Not rambling at all...no.

So I had my surgery on Friday. It went pretty well as far as I can figure. There was a lot of scar tissue around my gallbladder. My surgeon showed a picture of my gallbladder to Ian. Ian said his hand...
Posted by angela on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:42:00 PST

Where I lay it all out

So I'm now scheduled for surgery on January 12th. This means several things:1. The naturopathic community will now and forever turn its back on me. If the wrong people find out that I'm having my gall...
Posted by angela on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:38:00 PST

Um...maybe its something else?

The internet sucks and gives terrible advice. Some methods of getting rid of bloating. Actually, its addressing gas specifically, since that's the only thing that causes bloating on the internet.Incre...
Posted by angela on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:33:00 PST

Just a reminder

I'm still here. It's true. Okay then.
Posted by angela on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:10:00 PST

my attack is stunning....where the f&*k are you running?

This is a pretty gross blog entry. But in my attempt to document my adventures in poor health, I blog on. Skip if you're so inclined. I was dreaming about knitting. A pair of mesh gloves, worked in dr...
Posted by angela on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:48:00 PST

a reprieve from boring food

I completely forgot to add.... I came home from the new doc with my Zelnorm at 1PM, already bloated big & round. And all I had had to eat that day was a luna bar and some vitamin water. So I took...
Posted by angela on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:51:00 PST

i love my new doctor

I love Dr. Cohen but my insurance won't allow me to see him now that the ERCP is over and done. Our last visit was somewhat hopeful; he was vague about the bloating but gave me something to try, Regla...
Posted by angela on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:11:00 PST

one very good day

The pain is gone finally. There was one wonderful sunny day (Thursday) where I felt great, regained my appetite, noshed on seaweed salad and soybeans, was incredibly productive and social in work and ...
Posted by angela on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:54:00 PST