bows, flows, feather canyons

[freckles_and_doubt]

Cape Town weather is always a bit weird, but at the moment it's truly weird. Last week was freezing cold and rainy. This weekend was warm. Berg wind warm. Muggy, humid warm with a side order of a mini-thunderstorm on Sunday morning. It's not bloody winter at all. Rotten swizz, if you ask me. On the upside, the weather forecast promises rain this week, and an "upper perturbation" on Thursday. I'm all excited. (Actually, they promise an "upper pertubation" - I'm not sure if this is a spelling mistake or a technical weather term).

Also, the clouds over the weekend were particularly beautiful. This shot taken Saturday evening, returning from my daily dose of having my ankles affectionately head-butted, aka feeding jo&stv's cats.



Other than weird weather I spent the weekend more or less horizontal, owing to exhaustion. Today's forecast: a bright, sunny outlook upon awakening is already starting to cloud over, and prospects will worsen throughout the day until a deep trough of tiredness causes a complete collapse around 3pm, right in the middle of a university exams committee meeting in which I will be entirely eclipsed by a thicket of Deputy Deans. Memo to self: doctor's appointment, eftsoons and right speedily. Bored now.

Last Night I Dreamed: I was helping my mother pack up the kitchen (full of random broken gadgets) in order to relocate from our island beachfront home. Then I was living in a garret in a faintly Victorian city, sneaking around backstage at a theatre, and trying to avoid the persistent swarm of black bugs tracking me as I flew through the city. I fiendishly overcame them on a legal loophole by virtue of the fact that my feet never actually touched the ground.

Comments

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Dr's appt - hopes that it's nothing too bad!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I can tell you right now that it'll be either (a) oops, yes, glandular fever doing its thing again, not much we can do for you, or (b) oops, yes, sinus infection doing its thing again, as previously discussed the next step is a specialist and, possibly, surgery. If I'm really lucky it'll be (c), both of the above.

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Hope you get your 'down time' in soon, & plenty of it.

a) try not to overdo it. Our son had glandular fever when he was three - honest, we had him tested. It still strikes now occasionally when he's been overdoing it. But he recognises the symptoms, usually, & tries to ease up, mainly cos he knows what the alternative is!

b) nasty. A friend had her sinuses 'rebored', not sure whether it was better or worse after. It was a great way to 'gross people out' telling them about the op though!

c) Bloomin' cosmic wossnames!

ENT

[(Anonymous)]

I can recommend a good one, as seen by the Streat as well. He couldn't do anything for me, unfortunately. The operation only works if you have structural issues (they clip off a tiny piece from your nose bones so your sinus openings are bigger, but it grows back after a few years). My issue is that my mucosa are allergic to everything and swell up at the slightest provocation. It's a lifetime of cortisone nasal spray for me :(. I did get a cool CAT scan of my head, in which I could see the tiny sinus that's near the base of the brain. Apparently my ENT assists in brain tumour operations where the only way to get to the tumour is through the nose.

Re: ENT

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

Argh, that was me.

Re: ENT

[khoi-boi.livejournal.com]

"Apparently my ENT assists in brain tumour operations where the only way to get to the tumour is through the nose."
Just like the Egyptians!

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

Quel dramatic sky!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Yup. In a self-consciously dramatic and slightly overwrought sort of way. I mean, that's about four different types of clouds overlaid on each other - what about self-restraint? Damned emo weather.