Thursday Afternoon

I just realized I haven't written since Monday.

I took the MRI Tuesday morning -- and man, does that suck. It's being in this little tube for like an hour and being unable to move. I accidentally moved my chin and they had to redo part of the test.

But success! We have a diagnosis that partly explains my problems. I have a buldging disk in my neck. And no, I don't know what that is exactly. But it's fixed with lots of physical therapy - wooo! And the Brain MRI TOTALLY normal -- no problems at all - wooo!

I'm seeing an ENT Monday to look at the sinus situation. I feel a little better knowing that my arm/neck/shoulder pain has a logical and real explanation.

A long slow slide into war

Right now, I feel that the news coverage reminds me of nothing so much as the way they cover airplane crashes. No one really knows all that much, but they'll keep that frightening green-tinged Baghdad picture up for hours.

It's scary. I can't believe they're actually doing this. I'm trying not to think about it too much -- which is probably a good thing. But still...

MTV had on this thing yesterday, some sort of war coverage for young people. I'm not sure. But it felt vaguely like propaganda.

Campaign of "shock and awe". God I hate the people in charge here.

I watched South Park last night instead of Bush's speech. I think it was a good choice. Much more logical and didn't nearly make me want to throw something at my television set.

Operation Iraqi Freedom ::shudder::

No one has any clue what's going on. And I'm trying not to be scared.

My thoughts go out to the Iraqi people and our troops. I hope that neither of them get hurt and are soon out of harm's way.