Daily post

Sleep: Went to sleep around 11:30, woke up around 7am.


Pain: About 2


Weather: clear, 81F, humidity 63%, up, high 90F


Daily BPAL: BLACK PHOENIX
Description: A dark, languid scent. Promotes hedonistic tendencies and extreme self-love. You won,t stop kissing mirrors for a month.
In bottle: *very* strong sickly sweet cherry and almond.
On me: The fruit smell mellows and the almond comes out stronger. Not unpleasant, but not really my thing. Another for the swap pile.


Daily tarot: 9 of Swords, Reversed: the Nine of Swords reversed indicates that your fears have reached hysterical levels and you have lost all sense of proportion. Mental breakdown is indicated, even suicide. You need the help of a sympathetic counselor or therapist to help you work through your problems and put your fears into perspective. There is no shame in this; sometimes events -- whether illness, abuse, or loss -- can cause the subconscious inner demons of the mind to work overtime and a fresh insight is needed to dissapate them.
Um . . . no. Don't know about this one.


Reading:

Celtic Magic by D. J. Conway

Stories of Outdoor Science by Lewis M. Dougan

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

The Worthy by Will Clarke

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Dammit! I'm starting to have those same electric shock like sensations that I had on the Lexapro again. But on the Lexapro I mostly got it when I missed a dose; I've been real good about my pills lately. I haven't missed any. They're milder than they were with the Lexapro, so I can handle it if it's not a sign of other problems. Guess a call to the doctor this week is in order :-(

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Because I realised I've had several new readers since the last time I did this . . .

[Poll #813220]

Definitions

munificence: (n) The quality of being munificent; great generosity or liberality in giving.



putto: [pl. putti] (n) A representation of a child, nude or in swaddling bands, used in art, especially in Italy in the 15th-17th centuries.



orichalcum: (n) A yellow metal prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans, perhaps a naturally occuring alloy of copper and gold.



pastille: (n) 1. A small, flat, usually round sweet, often coated with sugar and sometimes medicated; a lozenge. Also any sweet of a similar shape.
2. In Medicine: A small disc of barium platinocyanide whose gradual change of colour when exposed to X-rays was formerly used as an indication of the dose given. Now disused.
3. A small pellet of aromatic paste burnt as a perfume, especially as a fumigator, deodoriser, or disinfectant.
4. The paper tube containing the explosive which, when ignited, causes a Catherine wheel or other firework to rotate.



hypocaust: (n)
1. A hollow space extending under the floor of the calidarium, in which the heat from the furnace was accumulated for the heating of the house or bath.
2. Stove.




Pain level: 5