my middle name is marie’s blog

What do you do to get rid of a cold or flu? 
Submitted by ashenflowers.

To get rid of?  Not much to do, really, except skip work, sleep, drink lots of water, OJ/ginger ale.

To avoid? Stay away from sick people.  Make sure I'm well-rested.  (difficult in the best of times)  Keep my hands washed.  Stay hydrated, including in the sinues.  (my doc recommends saline nasal spray)  Stay warm when I go cycling.

My personal trick, which works more than half the time, is that when I feel like I'm about to get sick, is to take a sick day and just relax, rather than waiting until I'm actually sick.  Many times that heads a cold off at the pass, although it didn't work for shit when I got a sinus infection last winter.

I can't seem to respond to any comment or post by alykat. :(  I keep clicking the Post button, but nothing happens.  And I swear, it's just her.

So....

• the orange flowers? those are California poppies, the state flower of California.  I love them!  they also have this tendency to spread like crazy and grow in marginal conditions, which is why you can find them as far north as Vancouver, well outside their native habitat.
• yoyodyne? they RAWK.  samples on their myspace page.

I really wish I knew what the deal was.  I even tried on a couple of different computers.

(and I just noticed something weird/creepy in the tags feature: vox has imported all my flickr tags. I don't know quite how I feel about that.)

What song or lyrics are stuck in your head at the moment?  What album is it from?
Submitted by Lox Ly. 

Nothing right this second, but since I've been listening to it in the van EVERY day for a while, the various songs of Yoyodyne, which are insanely singable.

"I robbed the cakewalk, money and frosting give me away" also the chorus "never been kept down/never knocked around/just a complainer/with nothing to complain about"

"To the old school, and burn it to the ground like you said when you were 10."

"The track's just ahead of the train, and we're at the station waiting"

and of course, the utterly hysterical: "in my mind/I'm really smart/I'm arguing with David Brooks of the New York Times/on the op-ed page in my mind/on the newshour in my mind"

heh.

Like Ralph's name, my real name is exceptionally Google-able.  It's nice to have a space that's a little less so. (I do have a livejournal, but that uses the same username as every other damn thing.)

Here's the thing: if you get a group of women together, and most of them are in their 30s, at least two of them will have the middle name Marie.  Dunno why, exactly.

So, Marie is nice and anonymous, like a Gen X version of Jane Doe. ;)

Not sure, yet, what I plan to write here.  It may just be grousing, as I'm wont to do with my livejournal.  Or maybe something a little more creative. We'll see.