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  1. Kaymyth
    This is not teasing, this is merely stating Truth.
  2. Kaymyth
    OK, I know this is a double post, but seriously nobody else has posted in almost a month. Last night I dreamed I was back in marching band. I had to decide the day of the field show whether I was marching with my flute or my saxophone. The fact that nobody knew the routine or the music only seemed to bother me a little bit. The highlight, though, was having to break up a fistfight between one of my coworkers and Ryan Reynolds in the middle of the field.
  3. Kaymyth
    I'm sorry!
  4. Kaymyth
    Brilliant! Mark it on your calendar; you should definitely have vacation time by then! We will spearhead the Sharder invasion of JordanCon next year and cosplay the hell out of it all! (You'll have to learn to tighten and tie a corset. Sorry.)
  5. Kaymyth
    Thrift stores and garage sales are good sources of old prom dresses. You. Me. JordanCon roomies, 2017! This must happen.
  6. Kaymyth
    I would pay cash money to see Twi cosplaying as Funtimes.
  7. Kaymyth

    Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows!

    1. Zathoth

      Zathoth

      Some of my internet friends once sang that for 20 minutes on skype...

    2. Kaymyth

      Kaymyth

      Apparently, it only takes singing the line once to make my newbie team member look at me with a mixture of astonishment and terror.

    3. Zathoth

      Zathoth

      I still hold the firm belief that unicorns are evil. They only show themselves to lone maidens in the forest and they have horns. It is not quantum mechanics.

      Astonishment and terror is a great combination of emotions. Beauty and disgust is another great one.

  8. Kaymyth
    Heh. I suppose there's that. Still, creeper fortune cookie is creepy. See also: fortune cookie writers get bored.
  9. Kaymyth
    It...seems unlikely, at best. While I wouldn't be surprised to see a Shardholder or two turn out to be a dragon, the theory that all of them are is a bit of a stretch.
  10. Kaymyth
    Bwahahaha! The Ginger Ninja Pony strikes again!
  11. Kaymyth
    Welcome! For answers/speculations on your theory questions, I recommend browsing through the book-specific boards, as well as the Cosmere Theories board. There's a ton of stuff in there, almost as big a rabbit hole as TV Tropes. A hemalurgic cookie is a horrible spike disguised as delicious baked goods. They will give you powers, but the price is too high. Don't eat them.
  12. Kaymyth
    Eh. It's not that bad. It's not like I usually need to take anything more heavy-duty than Aleve anyway. In retrospect, the time I went into the ER with severe ulcer pain had its more humorous moments when I explained to the doc that he couldn't give me any narcotics and why. He looked a bit confused. There are some heavy-duty things that I can be prescribed, but they generally don't like giving those to asthmatics, so it has to be pretty dire.
  13. Kaymyth
    GUYS I FOUND IT Photographic proof that I have been hit on by a fortune cookie:
  14. Kaymyth
    Yes; redheads are more resistant to anesthetic than average. However, I'm not (naturally) a pure redhead - I have a blonde and a red gene fighting for dominance. So while I do seem to come out of general anesthesia pretty quickly and don't have the day-long lingering effects that a lot of people do, I don't possess the same level of resistance that a full ginger does. And in this case, my resistance to opiate medications is somewhat weirder and not tied to the red hair gene at all. It runs in the family, yes, but not concurrently with the recessive red. And it's not just a resistance, really - it's a complete immunity. I don't get the painkilling effects and I don't get the "high" from it. About all I do seem to get is a lowering of my metabolic rate that slows down my breathing and gives me sleep apnea. (So yeah, when they gave it to me in the hospital, I got no pain relief and the sudden inability to fall asleep properly. So I couldn't even escape it that way. It wasn't until I got home and took a dose of Aleve that I got any sort of pain relief at all.) But see, my dad's side of the family has a lot of trouble with wibbly joints. My ankles like to pop on me when I jar them by running, and knees are twitchy enough that I've stopped wearing heels entirely. I have a first cousin whose daughter has a genetic condition known as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, the biggest hallmark of which is joint hypermobility. One of the weirder comorbid conditions with this disease is a complete immunity to opiates. So...while I don't believe that I or most of my other relatives actually have full-blown Ehlers-Danlos, I do think we carry enough of the genetic markers/potential that our joints are kind of messed up and we picked up the oddball drug immunity alongside it. This is actually one of the reasons why I'm more or less OK with not having kids. There's a very good chance that James carries the potential for developing rheumatoid arthritis; both is dad and brother have been diagnosed with it in the last few years, and it's generally inherited. I'm scared that he's going to develop it himself one of these days. I'm also scared that I may someday develop some sort of chronic, painful condition and there's not going to be anything I can take that will help. But neither of those things are half as scary as thinking about a hypothetical kid of mine having a high chance of inheriting a debilitatingly painful joint condition that would completely destroy his or her quality of life with little hope of any real pain relief available.
  15. Kaymyth
    aaauuugh conference call only about 1/4 of which needs my input brain melting whyyyyy
  16. Kaymyth
    There are days when I'm not sure whether Leia doesn't see the bunny in the yard, or she's just gotten so used to there being bunnies that she no longer considers them things worthy of barking at.
  17. Kaymyth

    Ask Chaos Anything!

    Kaymyth replied to Chaos's topic in AMAs

    ^ This! I think you're unnecessarily isolating yourself socially. You're young. A whippersnapper, even. There is nothing wrong with interacting with people on a personal basis. There are a ton of people at that college who are not and never will be your students. Go ahead and let yourself hang out with folks a little.
  18. Kaymyth
    You knooooow you waaant tooooooo
  19. Kaymyth
    Heh. Yeah, morphine does absolutely nothing for me. I learned this when I was in the hospital recovering from my gallbladder removal surgery. Then they sent me home with Percocet and it also did nothing. Then I called my dad and complained and he said, "Oh, yeah, the entire family's like that. None of us can take opiates." Thanks, Dad. Couldn't you maybe have told me this BEFORE I went in for major abdominal surgery?
  20. Kaymyth
    Aleve (naproxen sodium) works best for me, and ibuprofen comes in a close second. Which is kind of a problem, because I'm technically discouraged from taking either of them due to my ulcer history. But I think I've got that under control and I'd much rather take the meds that work, thanks, especially since my body is so weird about painkillers. I have some...really strange genetics and most heavy-duty medications are about as effective as sugar pills on me. You're probably OK, but keep an eye out for any major hormone shifts. That's what happened to me - my body changed up its baseline hormone levels in my mid-20s and made me more susceptible to migraines.
  21. Kaymyth

    Ow, my poor optic nerve blood vessels.

    1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      What happened?

    2. Kaymyth

      Kaymyth

      Oh, that was from yesterday's migraine adventure.

    3. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      Oooohhhh. Ouch. :wacko:

  22. Kaymyth
    Well, you know, Twi has faced a lot of fears lately. It could very well be that she's already freed herself of her Epic corruption.
  23. Kaymyth
    Heh. How nice of it. I never got them until I hit my 20's. By contrast, my mom had her first one when she was 7, so there appears to be some correlation between how early you get them and how severe they can be. When I had my first one, she was kind of flabbergasted that I was able to pop an ibuprofen and be functional again in a half hour.
  24. Kaymyth
    This is actually rather different from my experiences with the people I know. Most of them have extremely good coping skills; a couple to the point where I had no idea that they were autistic until they told me, and then I could see some of the markers. They are able to both accept the differences in their brain wiring as being part of who they are and still acknowledge that they need to put in the work to be able to function in a society that isn't designed for them. I do think it's possible to embrace your inner awesome while still owning the fact that your differences will still cause challenges in your everyday life. And I really want for my nephew to be able to grow up in a world that can simultaneously accommodate his differences and teach him the skills to be able to function and thrive and still not bombard him with the daily message that he is somehow broken and flawed.
  25. Kaymyth
    Yeah, that's what I usually get. This one is actually pretty minor, and it was just a minute or two of a single spot. The harsher ones can actually send a scattering of spots that last fifteen minutes or so, but it's almost always just in one eye. I'm just glad I don't get them like my mom does. If she gets a migraine, she's completely out of commission for 24-48 hours.
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