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good news: i finally paid my medical bill from last year's kidney stone this week! thus ends my love/hate phone relationship with justin from collections.

bad news: i might be passing another kidney stone. "what!?" i know, right! this would make #3, which means that if my body had any follow through and had actually passed the previous two stones, i would have enough rocks to make a earring and necklace set. the pain is not very severe or constant right now, but i'm going to get it checked out tomorrow just in case, so i can have some pain killers on hand...

exciting news: i have a job interview in an hour! at a chocolate factory! and this weekend i'm going to a music festival in oregon! (all of the above subject to be ruined by elusive kidney stone)

hermit crab news: last night i had a dream that i thought she was dying, but it turns out, she was pregnant and gave birth to six little hermits. and i was amazed, as hermit crabs have never been known to mate in captivity. and she doesn't have a mate to begin with. really, though, since i've been following danii's pregnancy reading "what to expect when you're expecting," i've had hella pregnancy dreams. i'm pregnant, you're pregnant, my hermit crab's pregnant, we're all pregnant...in my most recent dream, i was a surrogate mother. it was really traumatic, actually.

cookie news: i haven't been able to make no-bake cookies successfully since i've been in seattle. for a while i blamed it on the hippie ingredients in our house: soy milk, margarine, natural peanut butter. but no matter what i try, they never set. i have been making delicious no-bake cookies since i could reach the stove top standing on a chair. so wtf, i say! something is off in the universe.

well, that concludes my news broadcast. someday in the hopefully near future i'll pull myself together enough and write interesting, profound commentary on current events and academic books i'll be reading...until then, i'm off trying to survive...