someone tell me something good

i am beginning to think that my hangover is not a hangover at all. it's been 2 days since i consumed the liquid evil, and i am still not quite right. my stomach keeps doing flips and i am having hot/cold flashes. it was awesome to have some this morning in class, so that one minute i was sweating buckets and the next i was shivering cold. curiously, no one commented. i was just glad that the topic wasn't drugs. that would be wednesday's conversation, which my department chair is going to sit in on.

my mom has had "mini-strokes" for many years. obviously, there's a blockage somewhere in her brain, but no one can find it. so, she's basically going to get hit with "the big one" one day. apparently, a medium one hit her about a week ago. she usually gets her functionality back in a couple of days, but she's still having trouble. she had to hire someone to walk her dogs and now we're talking about home health care. which means that i get to enter the maze that is social security and medicaid. i am so tempted to just hire a lawyer and get it over with, but i can't justify the expense until i at least give it a try myself.

i would like to have a conversation with my mother that doesn't contain bad news or more crap for me to deal with. i have enough on my plate trying to run my own life!